Faith according to the Orthodox Fatherstranslated

The God-bearing Fathers consider faith as a mental virtue and a result of humility. St. Gregory Palamas will note on this: "Humility elevates justice." Only the humble man can believe and return to the heavenly spiritual world. On the contrary, "the one who has the vision thinks himself great, and the one who receives the divine assistance". That is, he who has the mental passion of arrogance, thinks he is great. He, therefore, believes that he does not need God, which is why he has banished faith from his life. Savvas Alexandrou, Theologian

So faith presupposes humility, the crossing of cold logic and unrestrained rationality. With this reasoning, Saint Maximus the Confessor, giving from his side the dimension of faith, observes: "Faith is true knowledge, I had unproved beginnings, as the substance of things not seen." That is, faith is true knowledge that cannot be proven by reason, because it concerns heavenly and not inner-worldly situations.

And below, continuing this great philanthropic Father, he notes: "Faith is a supernatural knowledge, in which the humble soul...