Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 17: The Three Kinds of Faith

Bhagavad Gita 17.2

trividhā bhavati śraddhā dehināṃ sā svabhāvajā | sāttvikī rājasī caiva tāmasī ceti tāṃ śṛṇu ||

The faith of embodied beings is of three kinds, and it is born of their own nature: of clarity, of passion, or of inertia. Hear about it.

Modern context

Faith comes in three kinds, shaped by a person's nature: clear, passionate or dull. Everyone has faith of some sort. Even the sceptic has faith in something, reason, science, money or themselves. The question is not whether one has faith but what kind. The quality of a person's faith reveals the quality of their character.