How do you use the word "faith" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "faith" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "faith": Teachers should give their children faith that tomorrow will be brighter and happier. Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

Faith Meaning

/feɪθ/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.

nounA conviction about abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation.

Sentence Examples

Teachers should give their children faith that tomorrow will be brighter and happier.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

If the company can retain its customers' faith

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

religion trust

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

Her strong religious ____ helped her through the difficult times.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

She has great ____ in her doctor and believes that he will be able to help her get better soon.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English faith (also fay), borrowed from Old French fei, feid, from Latin fidem. Doublet of foy. Displaced native Old English ġelēafa, which was also a word for belief. * Old French had [θ] as a final devoiced allophone of /ð/ from lenited Latin /d/; this eventually fell silent in the 12th century. The -th of the Middle English forms is most straightforwardly accounted for as a direct borrowing of a French [θ]. However, it has also been seen as arising from alteration of a French form with -d under influence of English abstract nouns in the suffix -th (e.g., truth, ruth, health, etc.), or as a recharacterization of a French form like fay, fey, fei with the same suffix. Compare Champenois fiate, fiaite, showing the same preservation of the final consonant.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"For we are a nation of believers. Underneath the clamor of building and the rush of our day's pursuits, we are believers in justice and liberty and union, and in our own Union. We believe that every man must someday be free. And we believe in ourselves. That is the mistake that our enemies have always made. In my lifetime--in depression and in war--they have awaited our defeat. Each time, from the secret places of the American heart, came forth the faith they could not see or that they could not even imagine. It brought us victory. And it will again." — 1965, 18:00 from the start, in Lyndon B. Johnson inaugural address: January 20, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson (actor), CBS News:

"[…]with a mentality anchored in a profoundly influential and persistent hostility to central features of the Enlightment faith in the theoretical and practical autonomy of the human subject." — 1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 489:

"Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you." — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 17:19–20:

"We have but faith: we cannot know; ⁠For knowledge is of things we see ⁠And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness: let it grow." — 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Prologue”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

"Gradually I realized that I needed a faith to rely on." — 2020 March 27, “Dafa Taught Me How to Be a Good Person”, in Minghui:

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