Sentence examples for circle of believers from inspiring English sources

She expects the skyspace to boost the membership of the small circle of believers (a recent meeting attracted 265 people).

Membership in the circle of believers is not dependent on family or geographic origin (as in the ujigami system) but is based on personal faith.

At the news conference, he balked at the notion that "The Master" was about a cult, never mind Mr. Hoffman's portrayal of a charismatic leader with idiosyncratic beliefs and a close circle of believers.

By contrast, a case for segregation based solely on Biblical passages that seem to forbid the mixing of races would have no purchase outside a narrow circle of believers.

Those who follow the lead of Wittgenstein regard religious utterances as noncognitive but attempt to determine the way in which religious language is actually used within a circle of believers.

When both the apocalypse and the UFO failed to materialise, Festinger found, the leader declared that the small circle of believers had "spread so much light" that God had spared the planet.

For much of the 20th century, small circles of believers practiced voodoo quietly here.

Molcho left Portugal and for a time lived in Salonika, Tur., where he joined a circle of Kabbalists (believers in the Kabbala, Jewish mystical writings).

These are the paranoid tactics of a religious cult that holds that everyone outside the circle of true believers is tainted by the sins of the devil and all his works.

He staked out the widest possible circle of agreement — praising believers of all religions as well as believers of none.

Moving farther out in the circles, both Fanny and WEN's familieswere by tradition Unitarian, or "Rationalist Christian," and therebyhooked into an international network of believers, small in numberbut of great influence, especially in New England.