This is from my Chambers daily.
Faith in antagonism to common sense is fanaticism, and common sense in antagonism to faith is rationalism. The life of faith brings the tow into a right relationship. Common sense is not faith, and faith is not common sense; they stand in the relation of natural and spiritual; of impulse and inspiration. Nothing Jesus ever said is common sense, it is revelation sense, and it reaches the shores where common sense fails. Faith must be tried before the reality of faith is actual….For every detail of the commonsense life, there is a revelation fact of God where we can prove in practical experience what we believe God to be. Faith is a tremendously active principle that always puts Jesus Christ first….God brings us into circumstances in order to educate our faith, because the nature of faith is to make its object real. Until we know Jesus, God is a mere abstraction, we cannot have faith in Him; but immediately we hear Jesus say, “he that has seen Me has seen the father,” we have something that is real, and faith is boundless.
neumatikos 