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Faith will move mountains

What's the meaning of the phrase 'Faith will move mountains'?

Faith is immensely powerful.

What's the origin of the phrase 'Faith will move mountains'?

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.”

See also: the List of Proverbs.

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