These are excerpts from the author’s book “Deep,” which contains eight of his small books published in the form of Wisdom Literature covering different aspects of life: Facing troublemakers, dealing with pain, personal financial issues, gastronomy, reading, criticizing, inspiring, and feeling always good to go.

Week 26: To Go with Faith

• Your beliefs will not let you down. But remember: you are not supposed to dictate your expectations to those beliefs.

• Believe and do not wait and see. Rather, work and see.

• The most harmful impurities to the fuel of faith’s power are doubts.

• The rewards of faith come slowly but last a long time.

• The most accurate measure of your depth of faith is your patience in getting through tough times, even more than how grateful you feel in hours of relief.

• Faith deepens the fleeting pleasure of relief.

• Faith grows and deepens over time. It is exceptional to be deeply faithful since a young age.

• Face this fact, admit it, and continuously attempt to comply with its content: Faith needs frequent renewal.

• The test of true faith, and its pleasure at the same time, is that it is something you keep paying for with a great reward that will be long awaited but will definitely come.

• You do not need a guide to tell you about genuinely faithful believers. You will be attracted to them spontaneously.