Trusting the Unknown Quotes

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.

There's something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care of you without your help. All you've got to do is to surrender to it. Surrender your thoughts, your mind, your ego, to the current that knows the way. It will take care of you. It will take better care of you than you can ever imagine.

There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.

I don't know what the future holds, but I have to be confident about it. It's just the way I am.

What does it mean to believe rather than to know? To surrender to something that's not fact but faith?

Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.

When we stay close to the wisdom of our knowing, seeking solutions to our problems in the sanctuary of the heart and not in the vanity of the mind, then we can pretty much trust in the unfolding, mysterious wisdom of life.

I'm practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don't know what it is. But I've been a straphanger all my life; I know what it's like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.

I encourage you to accept that you may not be able to see a path right now, but that doesn't mean it's not there.

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

What are you doing right now that requires faith?