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On faith   /ɑn feɪθ/   Listen
On faith

adverb
1.
With trust and confidence.





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"On faith" Quotes from Famous Books



... it had its courts which treated sins as crimes. Calvinism, while it was believed, produced characters nobler and grander than any which Republican Rome produced. But the Catholic Church turned its penances into money payments. Calvinism made demands on faith beyond what truth would bear; and when doubt had once entered, the spell of Calvinism was broken. The veracity of the Romans, and perhaps the happy accident that they had no inherited religious traditions, saved them for centuries from similar ...
— Caesar: A Sketch • James Anthony Froude
... as you are a specialist in these matters I think it wise to take your statements on faith ...
— The Farringdons • Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
... inability to understand the institutions of capitalist society. To many of them the State is simply the result of people having faith in authority. Give up this belief and the State will cease to exist. It is a myth like God and rests entirely on faith. The anarchist's desire for the abolition of the State arises from entirely different concepts to that of the communists. To these anarchist anti-authoritarians the State is simply bad. It is the most authoritarian thing in sight. It interferes ...
— Anarchism and Socialism • George Plechanoff
... the baseless fabric of a vision so vast, so vivid, and so gorgeous that no base can seem more broad than such stupendous baselessness, and yet any man can bring it about his ears by being over-curious; when faith fails a system based on faith fails also. ...
— Essays on Life, Art and Science • Samuel Butler
... human kindness. Savage drew largely on him for sympathy, and had it; although Johnson was too clear-sighted to be much deceived except in judgment upon the fraudulent claims which then gave rise to division of opinion. The Life of Savage is a noble piece of truth, although it rests on faith put in a fraud. ...
— Lives of the Poets: Addison, Savage, and Swift • Samuel Johnson


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