Faith in sentence

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It gave me faith that we, the people, do have the power to stop this tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food on a colossal scale, if we make noise about it, tell corporations about it, tell governments we want to see an end to food waste, we do have the power to bring about that change.

She, like so many of the women I see at A to Z, worked hard every day, understood what suffering was, had a deep faith in God, loved her children and would never have accepted a handout.

In the Sufi faith, this great Middle Eastern religion which some claim is the root of all religions, Sufi masters are all telepaths, so they say, but their main exercise of telepathy is to send out powerful signals to the rest of us that it doesn't exist.

Take it on faith."

To the vast majority of practicing Muslims, jihad is an internal struggle for the faith.

But there have always been, in Islam, a small group, a minority, who believe that jihad is not only an internal struggle but also an external struggle against forces that would threaten the faith, or the faithul.

And all I can really do is hope, not to policymakers or politicians, because as much as I'd like to have faith that they read my words and do something, I don't delude myself.

I lost my faith in our species.

He took a leap of faith.

So ask yourself, what have you lost your faith in?

And our fears led to a blind faith in the orthodoxy of austerity.

And doing so will only test the faith of our citizens, of our peoples, even more in the democratic process.

Now, some might accuse me of being naive, putting my faith in the power and the wisdom of the people.

And the more I thought about it, the more it made sense that he doubted, because doubt is essential to faith.

Abolish all doubt, and what's left is not faith, but absolute, heartless conviction.

Doubly ironic, in this case, because their absolutism is in fact the opposite of faith.

They found the perfect antidote to thought and the ideal refuge of the hard demands of real faith.

This isn't faith.

We have to recognize that real faith has no easy answers.

And this conscious defiance is why I, as an agnostic, can still have faith.

I have faith, for instance, that peace in the Middle East is possible despite the ever-accumulating mass of evidence to the contrary.

I can only have faith in it, commit myself, that is, to the idea of it, and I do this precisely because of the temptation to throw up my hands in resignation and retreat into silence.

We insist on faith in the future and in each other.

Could Muhammad have so radically changed his world without such faith, without the refusal to cede to the arrogance of closed-minded certainty?

We can either be complacent about our future, taking as an article of blind faith that any new technology is guaranteed to be beneficial, and just repeat that to ourselves as a mantra over and over and over again as we drift like a rudderless ship towards our own obsolescence.

But you get the gist, so people have really started to sort of lose faith in institutions.

They had so much faith in their tools that they stopped doing malaria research.

I have faith in you.

Well, Titus lost complete faith in the legal system, and yet he got an idea.

My pain, more than anything in 19 years on this planet, has given me perspective, and my hurt, my hurt has forced me to have hope, have hope and to have faith, faith in myself, faith in others, faith that it can get better, that we can change this, that we can speak up and speak out and fight back against ignorance, fight back against intolerance, and more than anything, learn to love ourselves, learn to accept ourselves for who we are, the people we are, not the people the world wants us to be.

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