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Faith

noun

A strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny. Synonyms: religion, religious belief.

Complete confidence in a person or plan etc. Synonym: trust. "The doctor-patient relationship is based on trust"

An institution to express belief in a divine power. Synonyms: organized religion, religion. "A member of his own faith contradicted him"

Loyalty or allegiance to a cause or a person. "They broke faith with their investors"

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"Faith" Quotes from Famous Books

... there was little enough doubt of the man's offense. He was a rank "waster," but, as in the case of all such creatures, there was a woman ready to believe in him with all the might of feminine faith. It was a bitter thought that in this case Kate Seton should be the woman. She did believe. He was convinced of her honesty in her declaration. She believed from the bottom of her heart, she, a ...

— The Law-Breakers • Ridgwell Cullum

... tide some lady nags Blew back his challenge. Scarce could Herman Hold in his seat. "By John of Prague's True faith!" he thought, "thy spirit lags Not, Joost! Thy course thyself determine!" And plunges like ...

— Tales of the Chesapeake • George Alfred Townsend

... motioning toward a wooden bottomed chair; "set down, and let's us talk over this great meracle, which I've prayed and rastled for mighty nigh a hundred times, without havin' an atom of faith that ...

— 'Lena Rivers • Mary J. Holmes

... 1689. Scarcely one peer, not one member of the House of Commons, who had sate at the King's Inns, was to be seen. To the crowd of O's and Macs, descendants of the old princes of the island, had succeeded men whose names indicated a Saxon origin. A single O, an apostate from the faith of his fathers, and three Macs, evidently emigrants from Scotland, and probably Presbyterians, had ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 4 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... forsakes him; his hopefulness never deserts him. No harassing anxieties, distraction of mind, long separation from home and kindred, can make him complain. He thinks "all will come out right at last;" he has such faith in the goodness of Providence. The sport of adverse circumstances, the plaything of the miserable beings sent to him from Zanzibar—he has been baffled and worried, even almost to the grave, yet he will ...

— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley

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