Belief and faith

There is a way to cultivate belief until it becomes faith or absolute conviction. Belief is the initial recipient attitude of the mind necessary or planting the seed of a hoped-for outcome. As a successful farmer earns the laws of planting for a good harvest, so a truth-seeking individual must learn how to cultivate the soil of belief so that it may yield the desired result. When the seed of his aspiration is continuously watered with belief in the Self and in the intercession of a master-as when the disciples appealed to Jesus—it sprouts into faith that the desired result will inevitably be accomplished.

~ Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, The second coming of Christ