take on faith
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But after appeals from users who said they relied on the app, he relented, while warning: "Double-check and do not take on faith the data that is published in Telegram channels during this difficult period."
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2022
Its record makes that impossible to take on faith.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2019
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
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
One lesson Terry's proud and strenuous soul has never learned: that the deeper and simpler things in social growth we must take on faith.
From An Anarchist Woman by Hutchins Hapgood
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