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 is realizing that you always get what you need.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
"Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge"
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
-Henry David Thoreau
The faith of every man, O Arjuna, accords with his nature, Man is made up of faith; as is his faith, so is he. The threefold austerity practiced with faith by men of balanced mind, without any expectation of reward, is said to be pure.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 17.3"
An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.
-Robert Brault
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
-Voltaire
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
-Thomas Paine
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
-Martin Luther King, Jr. "Martin Luther King. Jr"
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe so that you may understand.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Faith is nothing more than the conscious choice of the God within.
-Mahatma Gandhi
