Sentence examples for believe literally from inspiring English sources

Democrats have to swear that they believe; Republicans have to swear that they believe literally.

She spoke softly, precisely: "There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine.

One need not believe literally in the "black legend" about Spanish cruelty toward indigenous peoples to understand the rapid depopulation of the West Indies.

I believe, literally, in the God of the Old Testament, whom I understand as the Lord of the Jews and the Protestants.

Grayling's case is most powerful against those who believe, literally, that holy texts convey the word of God, who is a real, personal being who cares for, rewards and punishes us.

MR. BLITZER: Governor, but — but — (applause) — I think the specific question — the specific question is do you believe literally it was done in six days and it occurred 6,000 years ago?

Many soldiers believed literally in salvation, in a life after death.

What fun to see the candidates asked by a man from Texas holding up a Bible if they believed literally every word of it.

Fossils pouring out of the mines, quarries and railway cuttings of the industrial revolution were undermining the biblical accounts of creation and early history, then believed literally true.

One wonders if Merrill, who never closed the door on the possibility that he believed literally in his Other World, was as comforted by the afterlife he so richly constructed.

In a documentary tape Mr. Scopes Jr. brought to the class, Mr. Darrow is heard getting Mr. Bryan to say that he believed literally everything written in the Bible.