Word Finder - faith

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A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.

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I have faith in the goodness of my fellow man.

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The process of forming or understanding abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience or observation.

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I have faith in the healing power of crystals.

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A religious or spiritual belief system.

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The Christian faith.

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An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation.

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He acted in good faith to restore broken diplomatic ties after defeating the incumbent.

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Credibility or truth.

Don't lose faith in yourself.

Don't you have any faith in me at all?

Thanks for all the faith you have in me.

You had faith in my judgment then.

I have faith only in God and the lofty destiny of our adored monarch.

Have a little faith in yourself.

I asked, confirming my lack of faith in the couple's long term relationship.

I had complete faith that what my parents did was right, whatever it was.

She should have more faith in him.

If he wanted her to have faith in him, he'd best show a little in her.

That indicated his parents had a lot of faith in him.

I have to convince you; taking it on faith alone isn't enough.

Faith and courage were the only things that would get them through this dark hour.

Or was it that she had more faith in Alex's judgment than her own?

I think that he must be the man of the most faith of any alive.

To the men who fought against the rising truths of physical philosophy, it seemed that if they admitted that truth it would destroy faith in God, in the creation of the firmament, and in the miracle of Joshua the son of Nun.

He had no faith in her self-control; her moral commitment.

Morale was low, and many had lost faith in Gabriel.

It is of course quite possible that isolated cases of officers being put to death for their faith occurred during Maximinian's reign, and on some such cases the legend may have grown up during the century and a half between Maximinian and Eucherius.

I hope you do.  I have no faith I will.

You didn't have much faith in me, did you?

Yes, prayer can move mountains, but one must have faith and not pray as Natasha and I used to as children, that the snow might turn into sugar-- and then run out into the yard to see whether it had done so.

I have faith in Darian, not you.

No, she didn't have much faith in him, but that wasn't his fault.

I've been unfair asking everyone to take it on faith.

Whoever's bone it is, I'm just glad we had faith enough in Martha to believe what she found.

Your faith in him is touching – but totally naïve.

What, however, with the idealists was an object of thought alone, the absolute, is to Lotze only inadequately definable in rigorous philosophical language; the aspirations of the human heart, the contents of our feelings and desires, the aims of art and the tenets of religious faith must be grasped in order to fill the empty idea of the absolute with meaning.

The substance of the claim to infallibility made by the Roman Catholic Church is that the Church and the pope cannot err when solemnly enunciating, as binding on all the faithful, a decision on a question of faith or morals.

Science and faith together led him to try to make his way into the soul which he believed was born in Laura Bridgman as in every other human being.

Like his sisters and advisors, he was losing faith that his nishani existed.

We'll get through this — with faith and determination, not magic.

She wanted to believe him, but his faith hurt!

She shared with all her heart in the prayer for the spirit of righteousness, for the strengthening of the heart by faith and hope, and its animation by love.

It's my fault Ne'Rin lost his faith in you.

It was difficult to imagine this conversation was innocent, yet she must have faith in him.

One of the signatories of the Definition of Faith made at Chalcedon, in which both creeds were quoted in full, Kalemikus, bishop of Apamea in Bithynia, refers to the council of Constantinople as having been held at the ordination of the most pious Nektarius the bishop. Obviously there was some connexion in his mind between the creed and the ordination.

She had the air of one who has suddenly lost faith in the whole human race.

To tell Marya Dmitrievna who had such faith in Natasha seemed to Sonya terrible.

It was good that Cora had faith in Gabriel when he was losing death dealers who no longer believed in him.

Faith and reason partly agree, partly diverge.

Totila's conquest of Italy was marked not only by celerity but also by mercy, and Gibbon says "none were deceived, either friends or enemies, who depended on his faith or his clemency."

All three writers seek to draw a sharp line round what is " of faith."

But to know even his most trusted advisor had lost faith in him enough to consort with the man who slaughtered his parents … "We'll talk later," he said, disturbed.

He'd dreaded his first steps on his planet, fearing it, too, would've lost faith in him.

In 1790 he was converted to Methodism, and in 1796 determined to devote himself to preaching that faith among the Pennsylvania Germans.

Browning reasons as far as he can; if reasoning fails him, he gives a leap of faith.

It is not exactly an attempt to base Christian faith on rational scepticism.

As for Gramont, he had "no conception of the exigencies of this regime; he remained an ambassador accustomed to obey the orders of his sovereign; in all good faith he had no idea that this was not correct, and that, himself a parliamentary minister, he had associated himself with an act destructive of the authority of parliament."

Indeed, he had very limited faith in the human mind as an instrument of truth.