“The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety.”
#16
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Source: Lumina and New Lumina (1969), p. 45
“The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety.”
#16
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
“None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair,
But love can hope where reason would despair.”
Epigram; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Alone, as before, in the universe
Without hope and without love!..”
"The Demon" (1830)
Poems
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
Optimism (1903)
Variant: Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement
“Work without faith and prayer is like an artificial flower without fragrance.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago