Sentence examples for potent faith from inspiring English sources

In Mr. Lumet's universe, however, a shadow of the old hope persists, a residual but still potent faith in the possibility of something better.

Just as the saint was tortured by her father, Undershaft inflicts mental torment on his daughter by showing that his money is more potent than her faith.

For Catholics, hosts are potent manifestations of faith.

Notwithstanding the disparate and often disparaging ways in which cultures have regarded the cross during the past 20 centuries, for followers of Jesus the cross remains the unique central and potent symbol of their faith in Him.

In a recent New York Times op-ed, evolutionary biologist David Barash recounts telling the undergraduates in his animal behavior class that evolutionary science has "demolished two previously potent pillars of religious faith and undermined belief in an omnipotent and omni-benevolent God".

This more polite but, finally, more potent form of non-faith has played a larger role in politics than the no-more-teacher kind, if a lesser role in the arts.

A potent symbol of his Catholic faith, rosary beads presented by the historian John Ashdowhosell, whose research led to the search for the king's body, were placed in the coffin.

Sutherland Springs, faced with unimaginable loss, has turned to its faith as its most potent coping mechanism.

During colonization, the Spanish often burned works produced on amate, since they represented potent symbols of indigenous knowledge and faith.

The terrorists invoke their faith and its most potent symbols and teachings, however misguided they might be.

Now economic populism is returning to the heart of American politics.This economic populism is made particularly potent by the long-term decline of faith in American institutions.