"We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others."
― Matthew Simpson
Topic(s):
Faith
More From Matthew Simpson
- "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."
- "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."
- "I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today."
More In Faith
- "Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry."― Oliver Cromwell
- "The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith."― Michael Polanyi
- "I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread."― Adlai E. Stevenson