"I don't know. Therefore, God is real."

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He doesn’t always use words either. God oftentimes speaks through His blessings. He speaks through beauty. Through the smile of a stranger. Through unexpected bits of insight that you couldn’t have come up with on your own. The more you recognize His love and practice loving Him in return, you’ll begin to hear His voice in the so called “ordinary”.
 
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Hebrews 11:1 is the best definition of faith ever written. We can do worse than to commit it to memory.
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Can you reiterate what “assurance of things hoped for” means? I understand “conviction of things not seen”. That’s beautiful.
 
Off the top of my head, it is a belief in the truth of God’s promises - even though we cannot see or otherwise perceive them. It is knowledge and comfort that our beliefs, and the faith which both precedes them as well as proceeds from them is reasonable and reasonably expected to be realized.

Saint Paul wrote of the concept of hope in Romans 8:23-25
“…and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.”
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Patience is not simply waiting. It is suffering. The root of “patience” is to suffer without complaint. By that standard, I have never been patient. As to Hebrews 11:1, here is what the Rev. George Leo Haydock commentary has to say:
Ver. 1. All this chapter is a commendation and recommendation of faith, which is the substance [1] of things hoped for, giving as it were a substance in our minds to such things as we are in hopes and in expectation of hereafter, and making them present to us before they come to pass. — It is also a sure conviction [2] of things that appear not. For when God has revealed things, and we believe them upon the divine and infallible authority of the revealer, we have a greater certainty of them than any demonstration can afford us. By this virtue of faith, they of old, our forefathers, obtained [3] a testimony from God that their actions were pleasing to him. Wi. — Faith is the basis, the foundation supporting our hope; for unless there be faith, there cannot possibly be any hope.
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I “hope” this helps.
 
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