unbelief

Example Sentences

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Whatever world-changing power we might seek, whatever influence we might hope to wield, starts with the ancient prayer: Lord, I believe; help my unbelief.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2021

While celebrating after Game 5, Birdsong looked into Philadelphia’s thinning crowd and saw Erving’s then-wife, Turquoise, “in unbelief, shocked” in the stands.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2021

By the time Nietzsche proclaimed that God was dead, this book argues, the “emotional shape” of unbelief was long in place, and with it the forces that disseminate Western secularism.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 30, 2019

For all its vocal profession of unbelief, Gray finds this type to be nothing but “a hollowed-out version of the Christian belief in salvation in history.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2018

They had both leaned forward, their mouths open in shock and unbelief.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare