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
Faith never makes a confession.
-Henry David Thoreau
A man lives by believing something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
-Thomas Carlyle
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
-Henry David Thoreau
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
-Oscar Wilde
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
-Felix S. Cohen
He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.
-Swami Vivekananda
I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.
-Robert Brault
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
-Seneca the Younger
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
-Henry David Thoreau
