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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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Mute though his lips be, yet they still speak. Hushed is his voice, but its echoes of liberty are ringing through the world, and the sons of bondage listen with joy. – Matthew Simpson

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

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Faith
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Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. – Thomas Aquinas

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Faith

Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimers disease. – Pat Summitt

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Faith

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy. – Joel Osteen

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Faith

Faith… must be enforced by reason…. When faith becomes blind it dies. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Faith

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A poets autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships. – Anna Chlumsky

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relationship

Freedom means choosing your burden. – Hephzibah Menuhin

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God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame. – Joy Baluch

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Responsibility