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an article of faith

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an article of faith
something that someone believes very strongly without thinking about whether it could be wrong. It was an article of faith with Mona that everything she used should be recycled.
See also: faith


an article of faith
something that is accepted as being true. The importance of a balanced budget had become an article of faith among conservatives.
See also: faith

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That contempt of riches which our Gascon had observed as an article of faith during the thirty-five first years of his life, had for a long time been considered by him as the first article of the code of bravery.
"The Bible," said Aramis, "make our belief in them a law; the ghost of Samuel appeared to Saul, and it is an article of faith that I should be very sorry to see any doubt thrown upon, Porthos.
Perhaps this is the reason why it is an article of faith with the servants, handed down from race to race, that the departed Tisher was a hairdresser.
 
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