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 consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
-Voltaire
Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.
-Robert Brault
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
-Benjamin Franklin
Give to faith the things which belong to faith.
-Francis Bacon
Faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is light by day and right mindfulness is protection by night.
-Gautama Buddha "Gautama Buddha"
Faith never makes a confession.
-Henry David Thoreau
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
-Henry David Thoreau
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
-Thomas Paine
