Faith is our ticket to a new country inhabited by the Spirit of God. Faith is a conscious act of the will that connects us to the reality of God. It is a way of being that opens up new horizons of understanding. Faith connects us to a realm of mind-blowing possibilities. Faith puts us in touch with the way things really are.
Faith shakes off the restrictions on our future and on our humanity.
When the devil tells us there is no way out, faith enables the Spirit to lead us out of bondage. The people who devised the bumper-sticker don t come close to understanding the reality of faith. You can choose which world you want to live in. As is often the case, Hollywood manages to reduce a whole load of theology to a powerful one-liner. Whitney Houston may be better looking than me, but she and Anselm are singing the same song nine centuries apart.