Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.

Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.

A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.

Faith is generated in the atmosphere of experiencing truth.

We cannot know what faith is if we have never had it, and we cannot obtain it as long as we deny it. Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

My faith in God is such that I am not afraid.

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

Faith: a firm belief for which there is no evidence.

What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

Religions do not teach doubt.

Faith precedes the miracle. It has ever been so and shall ever be. It was not raining when Noah was commanded to build an ark. There was no visible ram in the thicket when Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac. Two heavenly personages were not yet seen when Joseph knelt and prayed. First came the test of faith–and then the miracle. Remember that faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other. Cast out doubt. Cultivate faith.

Religion was supposed to be a blanket drawn up to your chin to keep you warm, a promise that when it came to the end, you wouldn't die alone - but it could just as easily leave you shivering out in the cold, if WHAT you believed became more important than the fact THAT you believed.

Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.

Because of watching your breath and thoughts you have come to know now that you are neither thoughts nor your breath, you are the watcher, the witness. This is awareness. This is what I call meditation. Once you have known this awareness you are unidentified with your body, with your mind. Now you experience a vastness inside you, in one sense utterly empty and in another sense overflowingly full. Because of its emptiness you will remain calm and quiet. And because of its overflowing fullness you will be creative.

Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.

Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.

Faith is simply whatever is real to us.

For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.

The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)

No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.

To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist.

Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.