Now, as our senses put us into connection with the world of matter, so does Faith with the world of spirit. Faith is to the spiritual world what sense is to the material. Thus Faith is often called the eye of the soul. But, in truth, Faith is not only the eye of the soul, which sees that which the bodily eye cannot see: it is also the ear of the soul, which hears that which the bodily ear cannot hear; the hand of the soul, which touches that which the bodily hand cannot touch. Our senses realise the world of matter—make it real, substantial, evident, to us. The work of Faith is to realise the world of spirit—to make that real, substantial, evident to us.
W. Walsham How — W. Walsham How, D.D., Bishop of Wakefield, Plain Words, Fourth Series, on Prayer: Forty Readings for Such as Desire to Pray Better, tenth edition (London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1888), I, "Prayer: Its Nature," pp. 1–2
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