leap of faith
Example Sentences
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"The times I feel fear are when I am trying something new, that feels more like a leap of faith," she says.
From BBC
Even though she’s a trained singer, with film credits including “Mamma Mia!” and “Les Misérables,” this peculiar religious epic required an enormous leap of faith.
From Los Angeles Times
My encouragement is that we kind of go out there and take a leap of faith and support the program and let that momentum build into what he’s going to do.”
From Los Angeles Times
“And that itself is a leap of faith. That joy will come in the morning.”
From Los Angeles Times
Manish Kapoor, a 54-year-old IT worker in Wisconsin, took a similar leap of faith, taking out a quarter-million-dollar home-equity loan and putting it all into shares of Palantir last November.
From MarketWatch
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