Sentence examples for a dead faith from inspiring English sources

He believed in a dead faith".

"...Do you remember that moment in Henry Adams's 'Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres,' when Adams speaks of the Virgin and Child looking down on a dead faith?

As the very idea of mass culture erodes, so many of us are synced with ourselves but unsynced with those around us. "Mass is definitely dead," Faith Popcorn, a prominent futurist and trend consultant, said in an e-mail.

"We would ask Pope Benedict XVI to view the Catholic faith not as the dead faith of our dead ancestors, but as the living faith of those who have gone before us".

This conviction was captured by Jaroslav Pelikan, the scholar of Christianity, in his well-known distinction between tradition and traditionalism: "Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living".

Philipp Melanchthon, a 16th-century Lutheran reformer, stressed the point that even the devils are "orthodox" (having "dead faith") but to no avail, since only those who have embraced God's reconciling love (fiducia) receive the benefits of salvation ("living faith").

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

Jaroslav Pelikan once called tradition the living faith of the dead and traditionalism the dead faith of the living.

London was a graveyard haunted by dead faiths.

As well as learning about politics, Lakhdar also undergoes a literary education: he reads Battuta, Tayeb Salih, Naguib Mahfouz and Mohamed Choukri, finding that "faith was a dead skin that reading books had sloughed off me".

Faith that fails to address serious social dilemmas is like a dead body with no spirit.