Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.