Feofan Prisoner. Thoughts for every day of the year (№ 453284)

Sincere faith is the denial of one's mind. It is necessary to bare the mind and present it as a blank slate to faith, so that it draws itself on it as it is, without any admixture of third-party sayings and positions. When the mind has its own positions, then after writing the positions of faith on it, a mixture of positions will appear in it: the consciousness will be confused, meeting between the actions of faith and the wisdom of the mind.