Faith = Trusting God

The difference between faith as "belief in something that may or may not exist" and faith as "trusting in God" is enormous. The first is a matter of the head, the second a matter of the heart. The first can leave us unchanged; the second intrinsically brings change.

~ Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

(Colorado Springs: Multnomah Publishers, 1990, 2000, 2005), 27.

(Manning's endnote references Marcus S. Borg,

Jesus, A New Vision: Spirit, Culture,

and the Life of Discipleship

(New York: Harper & Rowe, 1987), 35.