Sentence examples for an assertion of faith from inspiring English sources

Dr. Weiss thought, as an assertion of faith, "I'm not going to let the galoots get me".

But any version of Christianity must resort, in the end, to an assertion of faith, to fundamentalism of a sort, be it as simple as shouts of assent at a revival meeting or as pondered and impressively phrased as Karl Barth's neo-orthodoxy.

Isn't your argument every bit an assertion of faith, rather than knowledge?

The Republican plan is, in short, an assertion of a faith that transcends mundane economic logic.

And that brought me back to the SFA, which was basically an assertion of pagan faith in the aura of the artwork.

It's a vast cube of dark space, where pagan priests once prayed: a huge assertion of faith and power, high above a city now in ruins.

And yet because this is a painting, and one that relishes the story of western painting - Kitaj based its topography on Giorgione's Venetian masterpiece The Tempest - it's a defiant assertion of faith in art.

If liberalism were a blind assertion of faith akin to other faiths -- belief in Christ or Allah -- we would have no grounds to defend free speech as opposed to "speech by permission," suited to the preferences of some, enforced by their power to coerce compliance.

But Christianity, as an Abrahamic faith, sets out another vision -- an assertion of human worth and dignity that transcends tribe and nation.

Now that is an affirmation of faith.

It was an assertion of selfhood.