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A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence. quotations examples
For we are a nation of believers. Underneath the clamor of building and the rush of our day's pursuits, we are believers in justice and liberty and union, and in our own Union. We believe that every man must someday be free. And we believe in ourselves.That is the mistake that our enemies have always made. In my lifetime--in depression and in war--they have awaited our defeat. Each time, from the secret places of the American heart, came forth the faith they could not see or that they could not even imagine. It brought us victory. And it will again.
1965, 18:00 from the start, in Lyndon B. Johnson inaugural address: January 20, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson (actor), CBS News
[…] with a mentality anchored in a profoundly influential and persistent hostility to central features of the Enlightment faith in the theoretical and practical autonomy of the human subject.
1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Routledge, page 489
A conviction about abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation. quotations examples
Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Matthew 17:19–20
We have but faith: we cannot know;For knowledge is of things we seeAnd yet we trust it comes from thee,A beam in darkness: let it grow.
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], prologue
A religious or spiritual belief system. quotations examples
Gradually I realized that I needed a faith to rely on.
2020 March 27, “Dafa Taught Me How to Be a Good Person”, in Minghui
An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation. examples
(obsolete) Credibility or truth. quotations
the faith of the foregoing […] narrative
1784-1810, William Mitford, History of Greece
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(archaic) Alternative form of in faith (“really, truly”) quotations
'Faith, friend,' he says, 'that was a nasty fall for a fellow that has supped weel. Where might your road be gaun to?'
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide