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
I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.
-Robert Brault
A faith which does not doubt is a dead faith.
-Miguel De Unamuno Y Jugo
What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.
-Anonymous
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
-Benjamin Franklin
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
-Voltaire
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
-Ezra Pound
