Don't give up — faith can move mountains.
faith can move mountains
idiomStrong belief and conviction can accomplish seemingly impossible things.
Origin
The saying comes from Matthew 17:20, where Jesus tells his disciples that with faith as small as a mustard seed they could say to a mountain, move from here to there, and it would move — nothing would be impossible for them.
The rhetorical force is in the contrast between the tiniest of seeds and the largest of landmarks: a very little of the right thing set against something that cannot ordinarily be shifted at all.
In English faith can move mountains has broadened well beyond religion to name any deep conviction — belief in a cause, a person, or oneself — that drives people to achieve what looked flatly impossible.
Everyone said the clinic would never open, but she believed it would, and faith can move mountains.
The little school had no money and no allies, yet the teachers pressed on in the conviction that faith can move mountains, and ten years later the building they had been told was impossible stood finished on the hill.
The Gospels and the Sermon on the Mount.
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