You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry land, you will drown. But if, on the other hand, you trust yourself to the water and let go, you will float, find this exactly the situation of faith.
-Alan Watts
Quotations
Faith
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
-Benjamin Franklin
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe so that you may understand.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Without faith there is no knowledge, without knowledge there is no virtuous conduct, without virtues there is no deliverance, and without deliverance there is no perfection.
-Scriptures "Uttaradhyayana Sutra 28.30"
Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.
-Mary E. Pearson
"The Adoration of Jenna Fox"
It is easier to believe than to doubt.
-E. D. Martin
"The Meaning of a Liberal Education"
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
-Henry David Thoreau
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
-Swami Vivekananda
Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us…
-Paulo Coelho
"The Witch Of Portobello"
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
