{"id":5776,"date":"2026-08-04T17:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T00:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/?p=5776"},"modified":"2026-08-05T17:12:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T00:12:20","slug":"faith-in-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/faith-in-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith in What?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5777\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-5.png 640w, https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-5-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">If we think we have faith, we should ask, faith in whom or faith in what? For some, faith is nothing more than faith in themselves. That is only self-confidence or self-centeredness. Others have faith in faith, which is something like relying on the power of positive thinking or betting on the proposition that we can get what we want by manipulating the powers within us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. &#8211;&nbsp;<em>Dallin H. Oaks, \u201c<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/general-conference\/1994\/04\/faith-in-the-lord-jesus-christ?lang=eng\"><em>Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ<\/em><\/a><em>,\u201d Ensign (CR) May 1994<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we think we have faith, we should ask, faith in whom or faith in what? For some, faith is nothing more than faith in themselves. That is only self-confidence or self-centeredness. Others have faith in faith, which is something like relying on the power of positive thinking or betting on the proposition that we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[787,43,110],"class_list":["post-5776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wool-quote","tag-confidence","tag-faith","tag-principles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5778,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776\/revisions\/5778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}