Power of Faith

The Power of Faith

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

1. St. Paul’s Epistle to the Hebrews

Faith is the pressure of the Spirit on humanity, the force that urges humanity towards what is better, not only in the order of knowledge but in the whole order of spiritual life.


 Faith, as the inward sense of truth, points to the object over which fuller light is shed later.

2. S. Radhakrishnan

Faith can only grow from within, it cannot be acquired vicariously. Nothing great in this world was ever accomplished without a living faith.

3. Gandhiji

Imagination is a potent help in every event of our lives. Imagination acts on Faith, and both are the draughtsmen who prepare the sketches for Will to engrave. This is all the secret.

4. H. P. Blavatsky

Even today when the intellectual temper of the intelligentsia is too often that of materialistic scepticism, we come across remarkable incidents which modern science cannot account for. The unbelievers scoff and ridicule or try to explain it all by using big technical terms which fail to explain and only explain away. The credulous in awe whisper, “a miracle!” and yet feel somewhat ashamed and sometimes rather fearful.

The fact is that our modern knowledge, while it may tell us about the external side of nature and the outward man, is still ignorant of the inner forces which exist in both. “Spiritual and divine powers lie dormant in every human being,” says H. P. Blavatsky, “and the wider the sweep of his spiritual vision the mightier will be the God within.”

Most people today deny the very existence of the inner God and are thereby blinded to its manifestations. Face to face with expressions of the Divine, they prefer to deny or ignore. The many “providential” escapes; the varied strange and remarkable “interventions”; the so-called coincidences—all can be traced to their real source, the Spirit in Man.