Sentence examples for exercise of faith from inspiring English sources

The peaceful exercise of faith must also be safeguarded for everyone, in all of Jerusalem.

He had a deep, visceral loathing for government-backed religion, but he also believed in the free exercise of faith, with the emphasis on free.

The case was seen as an important test of a 2000 federal law known as the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, which extends broad protections to religious groups that claim their exercise of faith is "substantially burdened" by government land-use regulations.

The basic social contract of the Enlightenment is that tolerance is there above all to guarantee the free exercise of faith.

"Religion is an exercise of faith," MacNaughton said.

"Establishing" a church necessarily infringes the "free exercise" of faith by others.

But Mr. Martonyi proclaimed to the European foreign ministers that "the exercise of religion and confession of faith is [sic] not restricted by law".

Drafted by Thomas Jefferson, the statute proclaims that 'all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.' The First Amendment prohibits Government from establishing religion, and it protects the free exercise of every faith.

What we are not is constrained in the expression and exercise of our faith, whatever our tradition.

Article 1 of the 1905 law guarantees the "free exercise" of any faith, for which "restrictions" can only be made "in the interest of public order".

That is the genius of the American tradition of separation: it is designed to promote, not constrain, the free exercise of religious faith in all its varieties.