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
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
-Felix S. Cohen
Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.
-Robert Brault
Faith is not so much something we believe; faith is something we live.
-Joseph B. Wirthlin
For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it’s okay to remain a radical atheist – it’s absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart – then no problem.
-Dalai Lama Xiv "Dalai Lama Xiv"
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
-Voltaire
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
-Havelock Ellis
Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.
-Dejan Stojanović
"The Sun Watches the Sun"
Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
-Paul Johannes Tillich
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
-Martin Luther
