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
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
-Seneca the Younger
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
-Havelock Ellis
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
-Martin Luther
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
-Thomas Fuller
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"
Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
-Ezra Pound
Those who think religion is about belief don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.
-Anonymous
