Definitions of Faith

• Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. - Augustine
• Faith is a voluntary anticipation.?Clement of Alexandria
• A man lives by believing something, not by debating and arguing about many things. - Thomas Carlyle
• God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing.?Martin Luther
• Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.?Thomas Aquinas
• Faith is not merely your holding on to God?it is God holding on to you. He will not let you go! - E. Stanley Jones
• Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand. - Augustine

Leadership, IV, 4, p. 87.