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Faith will move mountains

Meaning

Faith is immensely powerful.

Origin

From the Bible. It is recorded in the 1582 Rheims Bible, in Matthew XXI 21, as:

"If you shal haue faith, and stagger not, ... and if you shal say to this mountaine, Take vp and throw thy self into the sea, it shal be done."

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The meaning and origin of the expression: Faith will move mountains

Faith will move mountains

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