Sentences with phrase «purely upon their faith»

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For a monotheism, however lofty, which depended upon the existence of any shrine... was not a purely spiritual faith....

Taking creeds and faith - state together, as forming «religions,» and treating these as purely subjective phenomena, without regard to the question of their «truth,» we are obliged, on account of their extraordinary influence upon action and endurance, to class them amongst the most important biological functions of mankind.

A purely rational appeal from the pulpit can not counter the deleterious effect of the media's mythic world upon the life of faith and grace.