See? It worked out. O ye of little faith.
O ye of little faith
idiomA gently mocking rebuke to someone who doubts or lacks confidence.
Origin
The phrase is Jesus's recurring reproach to his anxious followers in Matthew's Gospel. At 8:26 he says it while calming a storm the terrified disciples are sure will drown them; at 14:31 he says it to Peter, who begins to walk on water and then sinks the moment his nerve fails.
In both scenes the rebuke is affectionate rather than harsh — an exasperated fondness for people who panic just when they might have trusted.
The archaic King James ye keeps the phrase firmly in quotation marks, and in English O ye of little faith is now used almost entirely playfully, to tease someone who doubted an outcome that turned out fine after all.
You doubted I could fix it, but here it is, running perfectly — O ye of little faith.
When the risky launch went off without a hitch and the doubters fell silent, she leaned back with a grin and delivered a single, satisfied O ye of little faith to the whole disbelieving room.
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