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  • proper noun A female given name.

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  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Faith in God, Faith in the State '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' There are many people who reject the existence of God but embrace politics as a form of salvation.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Faith in God, Faith in the State 2009

  • Sadly in the eyes of government that often means an awareness of religion as a problem - the 'Faith problem '- the need to build into various policies, the 'faith element' the need to get Faith leaders round a table to prevent them quarrelling with each other, and so forth.

    'Faith in the Public Square', lecture at Leicester Cathedral 2009

  • Faith and Politics yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Faith and Politics '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: How important is it that presidential candidates tell us whether or not they are Christians?

    Faith and Politics 2007

  • In preparation for the 2008 “holy war,” Hillary hired an evangelical Baptist who has put together her faith steering committee and sends out a weekly wrap-up sheet, Faith, Family and Values.

    Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris: The Unholy Trinity . . .Thank God. 2007

  • Faith, Relativism, and Liberalism yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Faith, Relativism, and Liberalism '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: The philosophical underpinnings of political thought are opaque most of the time.

    Faith, Relativism, and Liberalism 2006

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Blind Faith'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Faith is central to any religious belief.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Blind Faith 2006

  • NGUYEN: And faith -- appropriate name -- here's what Faith has to say.

    CNN Transcript Mar 4, 2006 2006

  • Yet faith in shrines and miraculous power is not, in this XX century, as pure nor as universal as in the days of the past; and Faith, in Provençal Apt which possesses so large a part of the Saint's body, is not as simple, and therefore not as strong as in Breton Auray which has but a part of her finger.

    Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

  • She was so staunch to what she believed the true Faith that I am sure that though she loved her children better than herself, she would have seen them die with less pang, than to depart from the “Faith.

    Personality Letters 1921

  • The only doctrine that is conclusively and officially opposed to this heresy, as well as to those forms of the doctrine of justification by faith alone that are so closely connected with it both doctrinally and historically, is to be found in the Catholic dogma of Faith, Justification, and Sanctification.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

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