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
Just because something is unbelievable does not mean you shouldn't believe it. Put another way, some things are worth believing in whether they're true or not.
-Jeb Dickerson
The magnificent believes half of what he hears and twice what he says.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
-Thomas Paine
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
-Havelock Ellis
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
-Thomas Fuller
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
-Swami Vivekananda
Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Faith is nothing more than the conscious choice of the God within.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Those who think religion is about belief don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
