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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- 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.
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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.