anyone who does not have confidence in some idea.

Faith is one of the major ingredients of life, and frankly I think with one exception the most important ingredient. The most important is Love. But next to it comes Fair.'. We know that there is not a soul in the world who does not have some sort of faith --- positive or negative ---but they have it. The thing that is interesting to watch is the way they cling to it. They hang on to it even when it is a faith in a negative idea, wrecking their lives.

Show me your faith and I will show you what you believe in, what you instinctively do, your little idiosyncrasies. We so often hear people say "I can't drink coffee at night. It will keep me awake." Actually coffee will never keep you awake, but your faith in the idea will!

When you have faith in a thing, you will reproduce the thing itself. Very often if you sit down to analyze what you are placing your faith in, you will find out how perfectly ridiculous it is, how perfectly absurd, from every point of view.

Faith is your lifeline. That is about the clearest way I can define it. When you go to a bathing beach, if you are not too good a swimmer you hang on to the life ropes and they hold you up. In the same way, we hang on to faith. That is the positive faith that will bear you through everything that happens to you.

Oddly enough, faith is not what we call a dynamic impetus. Certainly it is not static, but when we speak of things having action, faith has no action itself. It is like life. You do not live for a time. You always are and faith always is. Someone once said that faith is the glue that holds the universe together. It is a very interesting idea that without faith it would fall apart. Anything devoid of faith does fall apart.

I may have faith in something, and for a moment it seems to evaporate. But the interesting thing is that when you withdraw it from one thing it will pop up in another. Did you ever notice that? Faith will move from one thing