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
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
-George Bernard Shaw
Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.
-Robert Brault
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
-Thomas Fuller
Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.
-Dejan Stojanović
"The Sun Watches the Sun"
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
-Martin Luther
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
-Henry David Thoreau
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
-Voltaire
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"
