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
Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
-Paul Johannes Tillich
Give to faith the things which belong to faith.
-Francis Bacon
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
-Martin Luther
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
-Henry David Thoreau
The magnificent believes half of what he hears and twice what he says.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
-Oscar Wilde
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
-Khalil Gibran
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
-Voltaire
