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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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Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age. – Matthew Simpson

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Age
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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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Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. – William Shakespeare

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I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in Night. I questioned Gods silence. So I questioned. I dont have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it. – Elie Wiesel

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A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it. – Phil Donahue

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To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. Im adding up the evidence on either side, and Im seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God. – Julia Sweeney

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This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher. – Albert Einstein, about filling out his income tax form, 1944

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Your mind is what makes everything else work. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. – Henrik Ibsen

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I have a mess in my head sometimes, and theres something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly its not something that youre in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience. – Carrie Fisher

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