To achieve success in life, you need to have both faith and belief. But, there is a clear difference between faith and belief. Typically, in order to believe in something, you need to see it. That’s why we have the saying “seeing is believing”. However, to have faith in something, you don’t need to see it. It’s like “I believe therefore I can see”.

Both faith and belief are important elements to achieve success in any endeavour. Because if you believe in something but don’t have faith in it, you won’t take any action. If you’ve started something (a business for example) that you believe but don’t have faith in it, then you will not pull through until the finish line. Most likely you’ll quit half way.

The difference between faith and belief can further be illustrated with the following story…

There was a tightrope walker who could walk between two 10 stories building on a tight rope with a balancing pole. Thousands of people watched him perform his breathtaking feat. After he walked across the building he would ask his assistant to sit on his shoulder and he proceeded to walk across to the other side again. The crowds were absolutely amazed by his feat. After the performance, he asked the crowds whether they believed that he could do it again? The crowd said, “Yes, we believe that you can!” And then he asked the crowd again, “Now, who wants to volunteer to get on my shoulder?” With that everybody was silent.

This above story clearly illustrates the difference between faith and belief. The crowd believed that the tightrope walker could walk across building again because they saw him performed, but they don’t have the faith when asked to sit on his shoulder.

the difference between faith and belief

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