Faith is our capacity for love

What do we mean by faith? Obviously, this is something different from belief. Even the devil believes in God, somebody once said. So we’re not saved by belief. But we are saved, as Jesus often said to people he healed, ‘Your faith has healed you.’ We are saved, through developing our human capacity for faith. And to understand faith, it really is simply necessary to think about how we use the word – a faithful friend, a faithful husband, a faithful wife, or keeping good faith with a promise we’ve made. Faith means relationship in which we persevere in the commitment that we make, and that commitment goes deeper as time passes. John Main said, on the journey of meditation, more faith, deeper faith, not less is needed in order to keep going on the journey. And this is because the journey of meditation itself opens up our capacity and expands it for this faith. Faith is our capacity for love.

( Breakthrough by Laurence Freeman )