Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe so that you may understand.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Quotations
Faith
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
Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.
-Robert Brault
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
-Alfred Korzybski
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.
-Shannon L. Alder
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
-Havelock Ellis
Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
"Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge"
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"
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
-Ezra Pound
