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
He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.
-Swami Vivekananda
Skepticism is the beginning of Faith.
-Oscar Wilde
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
-Seneca the Younger
Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
"Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge"
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe so that you may understand.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
-Swami Vivekananda
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"
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
-Benjamin Franklin
