Why can you have faith in God? Because God Himself is ever bearing witness to Himself and to His existence. He does this through holy Teachers, through the smile of a baby, through the beauty of a rose and through countless other ways.

While you do not need intellectual understanding as the basis of faith, you have all around you the signs of the Power in which you can have faith. Faith is that gift of God which is always calling for a new beginning. All around you are these signs which are meant as a call to Him. It is to become new, to become aware of your oneness with the creative Source of your being.

You must have faith in your God-given selfhood and in the God-given selfhood of others.

In 1662, the Book of Common Prayer defined faith as "an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace."