Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was called the Dark Ages.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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 something that's been created to help people get through life.
Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.
I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.
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.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.