take on faith
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So have you asked him why he, with the same grasp of the vocabulary, can’t just take on faith that you fit the other description?
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022
It's human nature, when confronted with a complex subject that's hard to wrap your mind around, for people simply to take on faith what people they already trust or like think about it.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2018
Mrs May also praised volunteers who give up their time at Christmas to take on faith inspired projects, and aid agency staff working abroad.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2017
Everybody knows that feeling, because they want what they hope is way over on the usually-only-theoretical other side of it, the undiscovered country that you have to take on faith.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2016
They passed between two wooded hills, which the reader will have to take on faith as he cannot see them.
From Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power by Wyn Roosevelt
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