Genuine faith, the kind that the leading lights of spiritual history have tried to inspire in us, is something more than belief.
Faith, says [Wilfred Cantwell Smith], is not just "part of the furniture" of the mind but "an orientation of the personality, to oneself, to one's neighbor, to the universe; a total response; a way of seeing whatever one sees and of handling whatever one handles; a capacity to live at more than a mundane level; to see, to feel, to act in terms of, a transcendent dimension."
— William Cantwell Smith, Making Peace With God by Harold Bloomfield, Philip Goldberg