If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character. – Matthew Simpson
I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary. – Barney Frank
When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. Shes happy, shes thriving, shes full of self-confidence. I tell her shes beautiful every day before I send her off to school. – Lynn Johnston
And in spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. – George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Daniel Deronda (Book II, Meeting Streams), 1876