Sentence examples for command faith from inspiring English sources

A standard national religion need not (and cannot) command faith in citizens, but it can standardize moral civil law under which all religious persuasions may thrive.

Mr. Dennett would like the coolness of reason to replace the commands of faith.

He also commands such faith from his shareholders that they are willing to tolerate wafer-thin profits (or losses) quarter after quarter as the $160 billion company continues its relentless expansion.

Jews revere the Maccabees who sacrificed their lives in the uprising against the Seleucid empire, and Jewish law lays down that in certain circumstances (when ordered to commit a sexual crime, for example) a Jew must face death rather than break the commands of faith.

He stated, "all the children of the promise, reborn of God, who have obeyed the commands by faith working through love, have belonged to the New Covenant since the world began".

"Their faith commands them to do these things," he said, last December.

The Islamic faith commands vast adherence today: From Casablanca to Mindanao and from Chechnya's Grozny down to Nigeria's Kano, more than 1 billion of the world's 6 billion-plus people are Muslims.

The Islamic faith commands a vast adherence today: From Casablanca to Mindanao and from Chechnya's Grozny down to Nigeria's Kano, probably over 1 billion of the world's 6 billion-plus people are Muslims.

Along with Mendelssohn, Lessing embraced the idea of a purely rational religion and would endorse Mendelssohn's declaration: "My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths" (Gesammelte Schriften, Volume 3/2, p. 205).

Indeed, every religious faith commands concern for the poor in our midst.

But we really feel like you should live fully and with enthusiasm the commands of your faith.