10 sentences with 'belief'
Example sentences and phrases with the word belief and other words derived from it.
• « Perhaps the father of modern psychotherapy was the Frenchman Philippe Pinel, who in 1801 put an end to the belief in demonic possession of the sick and physically cut off the chains that bound the inmates of the Salpetriere, the famous mental health hospital in Paris. »
• « "Skills count," explains psychologist Michael Scheier, "but belief in success will influence success, regardless of willpower." »
• « Not only in Mesopotamia, but throughout the ancient world, there is significant evidence of religious belief systems centred on two main themes: fertility and death. »
• « Along with the development of religious belief, science made great strides in Mesopotamian civilisation. »
• « An important change in Egyptian belief is that the rulers of the Middle Kingdom still claimed to be, at least in part, divine, but they also emphasised their humanity. »
• « For the Egyptians the world was divided between them and everyone else. However, this was not just a function of arrogance, but reflected the belief that the gods had appointed the Egyptians as the sacred guardians of order. »
• « By far the most important thing Abraham did, according to Jewish belief, was to accept the Covenant, the promise made between the God Yahweh (the 'name' of God is derived from the Hebrew characters for the phrase 'I am who I am', God's enigmatic response when the prophet Moses asked for his name) and the Hebrews. »
• « This new set of beliefs, regarding the special relationship of one God to the Hebrews, is known historically as the Yahwist religion. It was not yet "Judaism", as it did not deny the belief that other gods could exist, nor did it include all the rituals and traditions associated with later Judaism. »
• « In time, this became true monotheism: the belief that there is only one god, and that all other "gods" are illusory. »
• « What the Greeks had never done, however, was to spread that culture and those beliefs to non-Greeks, both because of Greek belief in their own superiority and because of their relative weakness in the face of great empires like Persia. »