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Faith

I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today. – Matthew Simpson

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others. – Matthew Simpson

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. – Matthew Simpson

The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity. – Matthew Simpson

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

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man. – Matthew Simpson

I have faith in the market when we get the rules right. – Kenneth Lay

At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people nurture the belief that they can do things. – George Papandreou

I spent four months in Prague in these blue rooms reacting to nothing and you basically place your faith in the hands of the director and the special effects co-coordinator and you keep your fingers crossed and hope that the creatures look really scary. – Edward Burns

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence. – Samuel Rutherford

In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem. – John Doolittle

I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him? – Valerie Bertinelli

Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists. – Timothy Radcliffe

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims. – Timothy Radcliffe

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith. – Maggie Gallagher

The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief. – Michael Crichton

Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done. – Tom Shadyac

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. – Lynn Abbey

What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000. – Nick Clooney

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God. – Charles Hodge