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
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
-Voltaire
A faith which does not doubt is a dead faith.
-Miguel De Unamuno Y Jugo
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
-Khalil Gibran
A man lives by believing something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
-Thomas Carlyle
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
Without faith there is no knowledge, without knowledge there is no virtuous conduct, without virtues there is no deliverance, and without deliverance there is no perfection.
-Scriptures "Uttaradhyayana Sutra 28.30"
Faith never makes a confession.
-Henry David Thoreau
