The opposite of faith

The human dilemma is that the important things in life are unprovable. It is precisely because faith does not require proof that it has so much power.

‘I haven’t found my faith,’ said Dines between bites. ‘I wonder where I put it?’ ‘But isn’t this faith?’ said Thomas, tugging at the fringed stole, noting that it could do with a clean. ‘Doesn’t an attempt at faith constitute faith itself? It’s a dreadful thing to confuse faith with certainty.’

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” — Voltaire