Sentence examples for tests of faith from inspiring English sources

But these were always brushed off as tests of faith, similar to God's ordering Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac.

Bible study routinely turns to talk of counseling sessions and healing updates, tests of faith and attempts to make sense of senseless acts.

The stopping ­places, the pauses, the tests of faith, the perils to be overcome, count for very little, so long as they are survived; they are merely stages on the road to salvation.

It's worth contrasting that devotion to that of other filmmakers who are similarly absorbed in classic movies: Jean-Luc Godard's is fraught with guilt; Martin Scorsese's is burdened by painful tests of faith.

It is a measure of the museum's daring that dinosaurs and fossils — once considered major challenges to belief in the Bible's creation story — are here so central, appearing not as tests of faith, as one religious authority once surmised, but as creatures no different from the giraffes and cats that still walk the earth.

Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose tells a classic pioneer story, full of hardship, hope, struggle, tests of faith, and a sometimes-hostile, sometimes-beautiful environment.

Their message and call of justice continues to represent a test of faith and faithfulness today.

"This was a test of faith.

At worst, a test of faith.

It had felt like a test of faith.

Martyrdom is the test of faith, but the test of truth is truth.