Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven.
Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.
Faith is a passionate intuition.
Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.