Word: faith
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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ADDRESS BY SWAMI VIVEKANANDA.On the evening of Wednesday, May 16, at 8 o'clock, in Sever 11, an address will be given under the auspices of the Harvard Religious Union by Swami Vivekananda, a Hindoo monk. The public are invited. Vivekananda is an adherent of the ancient Brahmin faith of India, and was for eight years the disciple of the sage Ram Krishna. He is well qualified, both by his attainments in native learning and by unusual gifts of eloquence, to expound to a western audience the beliefs of his countrymen. His addresses at the World's Parliament of Religions...
...already suffices to himself. The thought of a god vaguely and vaporously dispersed throughout the visible creation, the conjecture of an animating principle that gives to the sunset its splendors, its passion to the storm, to cloud and wind their sympathy of form and movement, that sustains the faith of the crag in its forlorn endurance, and of the harebell in the slender security of its stem, may inspire or soothe, console or fortify, the man whose physical and mental fibre is so sensitive that, like the spectroscope, it can both feel and record these impalpable impulses and impressions, these...
...soul and life, by virtue of their meaning. One would be slow to say that his general outfit as poet was so complete as that of Dryden, but that he habitually dwelt in a diviner air, and alone of modern poets renewed and justifled the earlier faith that made poet and prophet interchangeable terms. Surely he was not an artist in the strictest sense of the word; neither was Isaiah; but he had a rarer gift, the capability of being greatly inspired. Popular, let us admit, he can never be; but as in Catholic countries men go for a time...
...that school of philosophy that will accept as true only what may be proved to the reason by means of evidence given by the senses. It is then always at war with religion. It professes to be a strong and manly doctrine, while the rationalists sniff at religious faith as something that can be accepted only by women and children. But they do not look deep enough. Is not the evidence which they do accept as satisfactory really based on faith? They accept the evidences of their senses, the dictates of their reason, but they do not know that these...
...seems sometimes as if faith in God was something outside of ourselves, whereas reason is something within us which we must of our very nature accept. In every man of every race there is born the spirit of faith in a God. It is just as necessary to his existence as the faith in his own reason and he is as much bound to accept...