once said all the scholastic scaffolding falls as a ruined edifice before one single word faith Pascal said faith affirms many things respecting which the senses are silent but nothing which they deny it is superior to their testimony but never opposed to it Goethe said epochs of faith are epics of fruitfulness but epochs of unbelief however glittering a barren of all permanent good and a Schlegel put it in actual life every great Enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith have faith that you can accomplish that which