Sentence examples for belief like from inspiring English sources

Belief, like love, must be voluntary.

The plan begins with an acknowledgment of the difficulty of defining the problem: "Terrorism is not so much a system of belief, like fascism or communism, as it is a strategy and a tactic -- a means of attack".

But in a British election season, the notion of Latvia mourning Waffen-SS patriots has acquired extra potency after Conservative leader David Cameron's European alliance with the Riga politicians of the Fatherland and Freedom party (LNNK) who revere the collaborators in the belief, like Ozols, that the bigger enemy was Moscow and not Berlin.

He ends it with a strange, short chapter confessing his eccentric Christianity, his "intense moments of belief, like lightning on a dark night" and despite most of what has gone before, and protestations to the contrary, you can't help feeling it's because a fair few of his prayers have actually been answered.

His genial acceptance of Richie's confession stems as much from a desire to keep the peace as it does from real belief; like Billy, he finds it hard to grasp that the likable fellow soldier at his side could really be what he says he is.

Having said, at the outset, that "a story has no beginning or end", Greene now employs a dizzy mix of flashback, stream-of consciousness and conventional narrative, partly based on Sarah's diary, to relate how she, having prayed for a miracle, "catches belief like a disease", and then subsequently dies.

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It is not easy to see, therefore, in which sense the possession of propositional content should make perceptual experiences "belief-like".

Another and related puzzle is over whether there might be states of mind with both desire-like and belief-like directions of fit.

When one has a visual or tactile experience, those states are "belief-like" in that they represent the world as being a certain way.

Delusions can be characterized, roughly, as belief-like mental representations that manifest an unusual degree of disconnectedness from reality, and cover a range of phenomena.