"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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"We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.“
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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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"If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses how wide is that we gain from other sources."
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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."
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"If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man."
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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."
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