Sentence examples for ways of believing from inspiring English sources

Do we find ways of believing what we want to believe?

Perhaps for this reason, Perry (1979) modifies the ways-of-believing theory by distinguishing between (i) the proposition that an agent believes and (ii) the belief state in virtue of which the agent believes that proposition.

But they need to change their way of believing.

"This society is responsible for creating the dictatorship — it's in our culture, our way of believing and thinking.

We Anglicans are fond of saying that the way of praying is the way of believing (lex orandi, lex credendi).

She believed that she had been given her chance in the world — that was her only way of believing in God.

And once you've got that, almost a way of believing that you're better than somebody because you believe in the right god and they believe in the wrong god, it's easier to justify your actions against them.

His aim is self-discovery and maturity, and he exhibits that splendidly French way of believing he can convince himself and others of the rightness of his every action.

If it involves acting and I can find a way of believing in it then I'm very happy doing it.

We need a new language; a new way of loving, a new way of caring, and a new way of believing which brings us closer as possible to the will of God in Christ.

And really, I guess loving is a form of faith -- a way of believing in something without concrete proof, an illogical emotion whispering to you that, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, it's worth being vulnerable enough to put your bruised and cynical old heart out there.