Sentence examples for making belief from inspiring English sources

Such determinism would exclude God's providence, making belief in the Biblical God illogical.

Arguments that met these standards could have value in making belief in God reasonable for some people, or even giving some people knowledge of God's existence, even if it turns out that some of the premises of the arguments can be reasonably denied by other people, and thus that the arguments fail as proofs.

By making belief in God their enemy, atheists deprive themselves of what spirituality is really about: a process of inner growth.

Supposing that there are subsystems for perception, belief formation, and decision making, belief in general might be defined as "the output of the belief-formation system that serves as the input to the decision-making system" (beliefs are, after all, just those states on which a person rationally acts, given his desires).

The capacity to believe in one kind of fantasy makes belief in the other kind easier.

That — or it may show that the writer realizes just how hard it is to make belief believable.

Pity the capitalist, who, having made belief, must now unmake it, for fear of not being believed again.

But what makes Belief more interesting than most is that it leaves no room for small talk.

Half a century ago O'Connor framed the struggle to "make belief believable" as a struggle for the attention of the indifferent reader.

"It becomes more and more difficult in America to make belief believable, but in this the Southern writer has the greatest possible advantage.

This makes belief necessary for retention of indexical beliefs, even beliefs expressed by sentences with pure indexicals.