Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.
To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
Faith is a continuation of reason.
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.