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 does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
-Thomas Fuller
Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.
-Mary E. Pearson
"The Adoration of Jenna Fox"
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
-Benjamin Franklin
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
-Khalil Gibran
Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.
-Robert Brault
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
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
-Havelock Ellis
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
-Thomas Paine
