Sentences with phrase «rested upon the belief»

10:27) rests upon belief in a creator God.

In his book The Hills Beyond, Thomas Wolfe declared: «The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.»

Not exact matches

The facts only take a person so far, and the rest is left to conclusions which are based upon belief.

His conviction that this can be accomplished rests upon his faith in God on the one side and logical rigor on the other — his belief that his tools are indeed adequate (for humans to have the kind of knowledge humans can have); that our knowledge of God, although partial, is really knowledge of God as God is.

The common faith of the church — even though it is expressed in terms of belief about the person — rests always, and only, upon the common memory of the event and the common experience of the Spirit.

A substantial portion of Principles of Psychology was devoted to «The Consciousness of the Self»; but James attached this term «self» to diverse forms of consciousness, each resting upon some discrete source such as experience, sense, emotion, imagination, or belief.

On the contrary, authority is said to rest upon the very absence of a wide range of shared beliefs and ways of living.

While it is not an excuse for racism, and while individuals are responsible for their own beliefs, and while the major responsibility rests on the shoulders of aggressors, a portion of responsibility rests upon these groups that give an image of a bad reputation for the rest of the group.

Thus defined, it is not a mere belief, but a part of the empirical ground in the life of the community upon which sound belief of whatever kind must rest.

It may not amount to a metaphysics in the fullest sense, since strictly speaking it possesses no rational content — it is, after all, a belief that all things rest upon something like an original moment of magic — but it is certainly far more than the mere absence of faith.

Some Atheist angles may be content to allow the rest of the world believe whatever it wants, but so long as those beliefs are hoisted upon others as a burden to bear, used to judge and separate people who are unlike others, and make absolutely no sense whatsoever... I personally will always crusade for the destruction of this plague.

The foundational premise upon which the cases have been built, rests on the belief that coconut oil is saturated fat, and therefore it is unhealthy.

Ironically, that study came about due to the belief that «standards are the foundations upon which almost everything else rests — or should rest.

However, this is yet another inflation - protection belief that rests upon shaky ground.