Very often we confuse the word "belief" with faith. Belief is a settled thought. As long as a thought is wavering it is not a belief. When a person says, "I wonder is it so, or is it not so?" that does not mean there is belief. He may appear to believe, but he does not believe. Belief means the thought has settled in the mind and it is difficult to root it out. And yet belief is not necessarily faith, because faith is the culmination of belief. Faith is that belief which no longer is a settled thought, but it is the very being of the person. Although we use the words "faith" and "belief" in our everyday life, when we come to analyze it and understand it from the metaphysical point of view, belief and faith are quite different. People have used the word "faith" for a person's religion, but that is another thing.