Sentences with phrase «christian faith and their love»

To develop this sense of «belonging» will be a way in which, here and now, life can become meaningful; for in the little cells of Christian faith and love which are our parishes as they ought to be, hope is implanted m men's hearts that lifts them above, and yet sends them back into, the community life of which they are also a part, knowing that they have passed from death into life, because they love the brethren and are therefore empowered to bring a stream of fresh, courageous, loving life to a sadly disillusioned and despairing world.

Not exact matches

Scriptures and the church both tell us, that you not only have to love and have faith in Jesus Christ, but you also must live the life of a Christian.

Growing up a true, on fire Christian, it was only when I tearfully and joyfully realized the maginitude of the love of God (in the Bible) that I was forced to face the exclusion and contradictions that were woven into the very foundations of this faith.

I was raised in a Christian faith that considers itself mainstream, pacifist (when it's convenient, anyway), and dedicated to the love of God.

The Christian faith and the other faiths that believe in a loving, peaceful God (including much of the Islamic world) have reached out into our communities to help people — helping first and preaching God's love by example.

If family = love and God = love (as it does in the Christian faith at least), then she does communicate peace to the dying.

Having real faith and real kindness and real love gives one's soul a place to go — even if one is not Christian.

Now as a Christian I follow the new testament, and so striving to be Christ like as a Christian I accept everyone for who they are, I love them and do not presume to know the right way for them to live their life, instead I simply open my arms to others and know that all people of all faiths are just fine it doesn't matter to me what you do with your life all that matters is the way that you do it... that was my understanding of christs teachings anyways

Contrary to the plati - tudes abhorred by Lamott and put forth often by people who claim to be Christian, putting faith in God does not mean letting go, it means grabbing on to the truth of God, trusting fully in Him, and acting responsively to His love which endures for us despite our undeserving nature.

Erica Christensen is unbelievably good as Leslie, just capturing the nuance of someone who has got a strong center to her, who isn't going to be pushed over, stands up for herself, but loves her husband dearly and feels like through her Christian faith she is now going on this incredible adventure.

Mr Page said: «My Christian faith informs me that children flourish best in a loving home with a married mum and dad.

There's no Faith (in the Christian context, anyway) I have except in Love and my ability to give and receive it.

Thompson grew up in a fundamentalist Christian home and his acclaimed 2003 autobiographical graphic novel Blankets tells not only the story of his first love but also his coming - to - terms with the Christian tradition of his family, culminating in a crisis of faith.

In those days I tried to think of myself as an atheist because I was pretty sure that the God Christians proclaimed loathed me for my sins — my laziness, my incompetence, my general lack of faith, and most of all my lack of love toward people in my life whom I knew I was supposed to love.

Stepping into his newfound faith, Chad was surprised to hear from his youth pastor that there were Christian bands who sounded like his musical loves, including The Cure, Metallica and The Dead Milkmen.

The grace given to us in confirmation enables us to grow to Christian maturity»... so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.»

And when a Roman executioner approached Perpetua with a sword, her last words before collapsing were aimed at her Christian companions: «Stand fast in the faith, and love you all one another and do not let our sufferings be a stumbling block to you.&raqAnd when a Roman executioner approached Perpetua with a sword, her last words before collapsing were aimed at her Christian companions: «Stand fast in the faith, and love you all one another and do not let our sufferings be a stumbling block to you.&raqand love you all one another and do not let our sufferings be a stumbling block to you.&raqand do not let our sufferings be a stumbling block to you.»

But we're doing more than meeting needs: we're equipping and empowering the persecuted church to be the church, reaching out in love and compassion within their communities — whether those communities are comprised of other Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Yazidis, or those belonging to another faith or no faith at all.

1) This is not a particularly hospitable place for agnostics 2) Nothing would crush my parents more than learning that their daughter has walked away from the faith 3) I have a book deal with a Christian publisher 4) I want to keep my Christian friends 5) My doubts come and go, so there's no reason to unnecessarily drag the people I love through my drama 6) If I fake it maybe I can convince myself that everything's okay

They are arranged so that they complement each other in their discussion of what is now called The Lure of Divine Love: Human Experience and Christian Faith in a Process Perspective.

In Origen, the Alexandrian theologian of the third century, there is found both Hellenistic or Platonizing thought and deep Christian faith in God's love.

The rationale of celibacy in the Christian faith is never renunciation for its own sake, but always that love for God and the neighbour may be fulfilled this way.

Pope Benedict again reminds us: Many people today have a limited idea of the Christian faith because they identify it with a mere system of beliefs and values rather than with the truth of a God who revealed Himself in history, anxious to communicate with human beings in a tête - a-tête, in a relationship of love with them.

The real test of love as seen in the deeper moral traditions of mankind, and in the Christian faith, is the willingness of persons to commit their lives and sexual being faithfully to one another «till death do us part».29

Paul thanked God for personal victory over sin, (Romans 7:25) for the church's victory in the proclamation of its faith «throughout the whole world,» (Romans 1:8) for the lives of faithful Christians, (Philippians 1:3; I Thessalonians 1:2 - 8) and for deliverance «out of the power of darkness» into «the kingdom of the Son of his love.»

According to the New Testament, this experience of the indwelling presence of God is the essential source of the Christian's power (Acts 18) and of his peace and joy; (Romans 14:17) it is the best gift which the Father can bestow on his children; (Luke 11:13; John 14:26) it is the secret alike of moral renewal (Titus 3:5) and of practical guidance; (Acts 13:2) it furnishes the interior standards of motive and behavior which must not be violated; (Ephesians 4:30) whatever else in Christian faith is valuable, even though it be the love of God, becomes effective only when this experience makes it inwardly real; (Romans 5:5) and the temple is easily dispensable since to every Christian it can be said, «Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you?»

He has brought more faiths together and has said nothing wrong but for everyone to have Love, Faith, Hope, Courage and Honor, regardless if you're Republican, Tea Party, Democrat, Christian, Muslim or Jewish..

Personally, I do not think a true christian should actually be involved in politics as the requirements of office may lead one to have to work in opposition to one's faith — particularly the tough parts of the faith like forgiveness, pacifism, and love.

When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith - community, we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.»

As long as a person preserves his external union with the Church by fulfilling his duties, he may well himself decide in Christian freedom whether he prays better, that is to say with greater faith, hope and love at home or at a liturgical celebration.

We are trying to grasp the meaning of love in the Christian faith in responsible relationship to the scripture, to the classical tradition, and to a contemporary scientific and rational understanding of our existence.46

Catholic laymen must take up their place in life and face their family, their love, their children (who perhaps do not always come up to their expectations), their professional duties which grow ever more irksome and their duties as citizens; in doing so they will meet situations in which, because they reflect on their faith, they will know how to behave as Christians living in the grace of God, the light of the gospel and the imitation of the crucified Christ.

As Christians, we believe our faith is founded in God's self - sacrificial love, a virtue we are commanded to emulate: «Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven» (Matt.

And because it means faith in this Lord, that radicalism leads the Christian to comprehend all situations fully (including the situation of the corporation head or the statesman — «I am become all things to all men»), and also to love his adversaries as he loves his frienAnd because it means faith in this Lord, that radicalism leads the Christian to comprehend all situations fully (including the situation of the corporation head or the statesman — «I am become all things to all men»), and also to love his adversaries as he loves his frienand also to love his adversaries as he loves his friends.

What matters is whether a Christian in the purity of his faith and his understanding of man joins the struggle and demonstrates by the audacity of his faith, by his love for his neighbour, and his optimism about the future, that he is not just the passive object of history or even of the new society, but rather the co-author and co-architect of the new order.9

Love has a history, and a critical part of that history is the development from the faith of Judaism to the Christian faith.

In Christian faith all thought about love leads to the nature of God, and therefore the reconception of love leads to the question of the being of God to which we now turn.

Their upward climb to a sublime ethical monotheism and a Christian faith in redemption through the love of «the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,» gives evidence enough that in the Bible is the record of God's progressive self - disclosure.

The urgent ecumenical question is how African, Asian, Latin American, North American and European Christians can live together in the same church, authentically expressing the same faith of Christ and love of Christ.

We know this Camping is a false prophet but the danger is his deception and the fact that this event will drive more people away from the faith as the press loves to ridicule Christians.

As Carl Dudley writes, «When church size is measured by human relationships, the small church is the largest expression of the Christian faith,» And David Ray reminds us that «small churches are the norm, primarily because many, many people still find them to be the right size In which to love God and neighbAnd David Ray reminds us that «small churches are the norm, primarily because many, many people still find them to be the right size In which to love God and neighband neighbor.

Most of the people I know and have worked with in faith - related charities (Christian or Jewish) do it because they love their neighbor, which is also why they find the teachings of their belief system attractive.

Adherents of the Christian faith may continue to love these enemies of the Divine, but as a Jew I believe that the bin Ladens of this world chose their path freely, and that, like David, we ought to «hate them with perfect hatred» — for they know well what they do.

«God calls Central Christian Church to be a welcoming and open faith community where Christian love, action, and discipleship unite.»

At the heart of the Christian faith is this great assurance: Although we have sinned terribly against him and our neighbors through our lovelessness, he still loves us and seeks to win us to salvation by that love.

So quit relying on Jewish scriptures and Hebrew traditions to inform the CHristian church, and look to the simple message of Jesus on the only commandments that are important, and then the answer here is simple — if women are knowledgeable, capable teachers, welcome them to that role, love them for it, and keep the faith.

Although those contemporary theologies which stress the persistence of sin even in the best Christians have a note of truth which rightly challenges complacency about the redeemed life, it is also true that there are Christian saints who attain to a very high measure of the God - centered faith and love portrayed by Jesus.

But only in repentance, faith, and love of God is Christian experience firmly grounded.

Agony now is the way of achieving that reconciliation, that breaking down of the barrier of enmity — which the madness of men prevented love from accomplishing, and the frustration of which is the most refined torment in the sufferings of the Messiah — a universal agony in the likeness of that of the Savior, both the agony of the racked, abandoned Jews and of the racked, abandoned Christians who live by faith.

We stand before the God we know and love as a friend, the vastness of his creation and the beauty of our Christian faith.»