What does having faith really mean?

Having Faith means believing and trusting in that which is unseen. Knowing for certain in your heart and mind that it exists even though you can not see it. Trusting in an outcome being placed in the invisible hands of another. Knowing that no matter whatever that outcome is, there is a good, logical reason for it even though you may not know what it is now.

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking, you know, being a religious mindless robot that will believe anything he was told about God=)

Faith is not only relative to religion.

There is FAITH in almost everything we do and in the reasons why we do it.

There is Faith when you decide to believe, act and expect something when against your reason and all logical arguments. But it is also an act of Faith to follow reason as if it would be impossible for it to get wrong. When we choose to believe in something, when we decide to trust, when we do something but we really don't know why we do it or why it is important.

To have Faith is to be Optimist, to Believe in Something or Someone (religion, friend, science...)

Faith means...believing that with hope and prayer things wil be ok. Hope comes from within and is strengthened by prayer. Prayer to a higher power of "Good". For, Good is God, as Ghandi put it. God can be Mohamed, Jesus, Bhudda, the Great Creator, or any of the other "Gods". For, if it is good, it is God. Let all that isn't good fall by the wayside. Now...just what is "good"? That is the true question. To begin with, Good is peace, and the desire for peace. It is understanding and loving each other, and tolerance of differences and inclusion of all in the quest for peace and understanding. I have witnessed and celebrated faith all of my life. Read about the 'relic' and the 'light' in my hub and linked blog, "Just A Dozen".

That which makes the tounge speak, but cannot be spoken-

That which makes the mind think, but cannot be understood-

(this is a short excerpt hindu text about what is God (monotheistic)

I just wrote this in another Hub (hoping around today from religion to religion) but I felt the Catholic view of faith stated durning the coucil of trent (I believe, or the 5th council of the lateran) which is:

faith is more than a belief, it's a way of life

Do you just believe, or do you live the gospel everyday?

To me that's faith

Having faith, first and foremost, is realising that it's not your/our faith. Faith is a free gift along with grace.

Eph 2:8-9 (KJV) For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

When we exercise this gift (i.e. through our works) we then create our faith. Our faith then earns us rewards stored in heaven. It does not earn us salvation.

Unexercised faith is known Biblically as "faith alone". The man in the parable of the talents buried his "faith alone" in the ground and eventually lost it and it was given to the others.

Keeping on keeping on believing, no matter what trials we experience, is exercising the faith we were given, but be warned, for this in the minimum The Lord expects. He wants us to do more, so we also have to take leaps of faith according to the talents we were given if we want to store those rewards.