The Special Nature of Saving Faith

Romans 8:16 KJV The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
The peculiar persistent internal spiritual witness possessed by the born again. Note that the indwelling Holy Spirit is supporting the witness of the new human personal spirit of the born again.
Ephesians 2:8 KJV For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
The saved person is not the source of saving faith.
Nominally Christian belief, trust, and works may be the result of saving faith.
But, in many, belief, trust, and works may merely indicate the natural human response to that which is accepted as good.
The persistent, internal, spiritual witness marks the difference.

No recompense but Truth

"Scholarship asks, thank God, no recompense but Truth. It is not for the sake of material reward that she (Scholarship) pursues her (Truth) through the undergrowth of Ignorance, shining on Obscurity the bright torch of Reason and clearing aside the tangled thorns of Error with the keen secateurs of Intellect. Nor is it for the sake of public glory and the applause of the multitude: the scholar is indifferent to vulgar acclaim. Nor is it even in the hope that those few intimate friends who have observed at first hand the labor of the chase will mark with a word or two of discerning congratulation its eventual achievement. Which is very fortunate, because they don't."