Having Ebersol's passionate faith meant the I.O.C. was blessed by its largest benefactor, who was protecting both his friend and his investment.

Thus, in the name of a com- passionate faith, fanatics slaughter those who have done them no harm, and we race recklessly toward destruction.

Mamonov plays the title hero, here, tsar Ivan the Terrible, a character torn between passionate faith and cruelty in its name.

Grantaire is cynical and upholds a philosophy of Nihilism, yet has an immense adoration for the passionate faith that Enjolras exudes.

"I am, indeed, often asked," he says, "how I can reconcile my passionate faith in India with my internationalist work for the United Nations."

The radical has a passionate faith in the infinite perfectibility of human nature.

Mendelssohn saw life without God as meaningless but this was not a passionate faith: he was quite content with the knowledge of God attainable by reason.

The particular variety of her early Christian belief remains unclear, but Tubman acquired a passionate faith in God.

He began in the 1950s to write a unique Mormon poetry of modernist sensibility and skill but also informed and passionate faith.

I have faith, Uncle, fervent, passionate faith.