Quote by Matthew Simpson
Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith

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

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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

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Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state. – Matthew Simpson

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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

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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my familys faith. – Vera Farmiga

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Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people… No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings. – Thomas Becket

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The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike. – Hesiod

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