Sentence examples for individual faith from inspiring English sources

Little by little we began to speak beyond an individual faith to look for those greater connective tissues.

"It has never been my intention to disparage people's individual faith," Ms. McEwan said, "and I'm sorry if my words were taken in that way".

In his careful yet provocative contemplation of religious history, Wright sees continuous positive moral change over time but denies the specialness of any individual faith.

For all his physical and intellectual grandeur, he has a levelling interest in the individual: "Faith isn't about having good ideas in your head, it's about the ability to listen, which can be very difficult for a bishop".

However genuine these expressions of individual faith may have been, they also took place during the years when evangelical Christianity was asserting itself in partisan politics on such issues as abortion and gay rights.

In 1996, when Hunter felt that the congregation was ready, he changed the emphasis of his preaching from individual faith and mutual service to the need to serve the community as a whole.

The Office of the University Chaplain ministers to the individual faiths of Columbia University's diverse community of scholars, students and staff from many different faith traditions while promoting interfaith and intercultural understanding.

"Circumcision is an ancient ritual that is fundamental to our individual faiths, and we protest in the strongest possible terms this court ruling," it said.

She reached out to all faiths: Catholics, Protestants, Ethiopian Hebrews, traditional African religion practitioners, Muslims and followers of native American faiths; she remembers that "folks stopped on Lenox Avenue to see all these black people being comfortable with their individual faiths".

And though we do have our individual faiths and all those things, it is not something that we'll preach to the people out there.

While recognizing, at least in hindsight, the value of widening religious freedom, these Americans see another story in which the nation has also been steadily cutting itself off from its own religious roots, a development posing a threat to the religious vitality of individuals, faith communities and ultimately the whole culture.