Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
Faith is not contrary to reason.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
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 is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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 believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.