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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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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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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 walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil. – Michelle Shocked

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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. – Pearl S. Buck

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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. – Herman Melville

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And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens. – Christopher Dawson

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