Faith Is Passionate Intuiton By William Wordsworth

“Faith is passionate intuiton “

William Wordsworth

Both faith and intuition are inborn. We are born with this capacity to intuit certain things and to believe, have faith in other things. It can even be argued that these two go hand in hand.

Faith has a lot of different meanings: first, it can be associated with trust, when we say “I have faith in you that you will succeed” meaning “I trust you”; second, it can be associated with loyalty and honesty, that you are “faithful”; third is “accepting assumptions” and the last one, the fourth, is faith in something bigger than us, in a God for example.

Faith is both part of personal knowledge, but also part of shared knowledge. Faith can be considered to be personal knowledge because it is a “subjective commitment of belief”, but it can also be seen as shared knowledge, sharing the belief with other group of people and even other communities. We say that faith is subjective because we do not test it, as we do in science. It is not demonstrative, we cannot derive objective conclusions from it. It is something that we feel

It is said that people who have a deep faith in a God are more likely to experience more intuitive thinking. My grand-mother, who is a highly religious person, has often experienced this cases of intuitive thinking and most of the times she was correct in her approach. I remember once she told me she has an unexplainable feeling that something bad is going to happen. Of course, I did not believe her and frankly why would I? But, two days later, my mother called me while I was in school to tell me that my father broke his foot and he is in hospital. I was quite shocked at that time, because it seemed that my grand-mother was right. Since then I always take in consideration her “gut” feelings and mine as well. I did not believe that these kind of intuitions can be right, but most of the times, they