The doctrine of religious faith involves the doctrine of living by the moment;
that is to say, of giving to the present moment the whole amount of our
present powers, on the obvious ground of its involving the whole amount
of present duty. In other words, a living faith, resulting as it does
in a holy heart and life, tends to prevent mental dissipation, and to
fix the mind upon one object, the appropriate and all important object,
namely, that which the present moment brings before it. Such a mind
necessarily forms the habit of strict and profound attention. It is not
perplexed in its action by a frequent tendency to fly off from its
present inquiries, and to bewilder itself in other subjects which are
not connected with them. It is superfluous to say, that such a state of
mind is exceedingly favorable in the investigation of the truth. The
mind, that is capable of fully giving its attention, other things being
equal, will be much more correct in its judgments than other minds.— From The Life of Faith, Part 2, Chapter 10.
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