"Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.“


-Dean Inge

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Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

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