Faith moving mountains is often cited as the text for such convictions.
Alÿs confronts issues of globalism through Sisyphean episodes: pushing a block of ice down the streets of Mexico City until it is melted completely (Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing, 1997); walking the streets of São Paulo and Jerusalem with a dripping can of paint to mark national borders (The Green Line (Sometimes doing something poetic can become political and sometimes doing something political can become poetic), 2005); and shoveling a mound of sand from one side of a dune to the other in Lima, Peru (When
Faith Moves Mountains, 2002).
Jimmie Durham, The Stone (6» 15», 2016) Rachel Maclean, Please Sir... (25» 16», 2014) Kader Attia, excerpts from Reason's Oxymorons (2015) Francis Alÿs, When
Faith Moves Mountains (15» 09», 2002) Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Waiting for the Barbarians (4» 30», 2013) Manthia Diawara, Edouard Glissant: One World in Relation (2009) Fleur Melbourn, the little immaculate conception (5» 39», 2016) Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ashes (20», 2012) Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Black Beach / Horse / Camp / The Dead / Forces (8», 2016) John P. Allen in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, London, October 2016
Everything seems to fall into place, with classic Alÿs works such as Re-enactment (2001), When
Faith Moves Mountains (2002), and Green Line (2004) all present, along with a wide selection of his paintings, drawings, and animations, and yet something doesn't quite click.
Not exact matches
Ask and if you have
faith that can
move mountains, you shall receive.
If you have enough
faith, you can
move a
mountain.
If you have
faith in God, you understand that his will is more important than ours, so in fact
faith can
move a
mountain assuming you have
faith in God, and it is his will.
-- Matthew 17:20»... if you have
faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this
mountain, «
Move from here to there,» and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to
Move from here to there,» and it will
move; and nothing will be impossible to
move; and nothing will be impossible to you.
2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God's secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such
faith that I could
move mountains, but didn't love others, I would be nothing.
Can you guess what's coming next... with the
faith of a mustard seed you can
move mountains.
Your good book says that
faith as a grain of mustard seed can
move mountains.
«I tell you the truth, if you have
faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this
mountain, «
Move from here to there» and it will m
Move from here to there» and it will
movemove.
Any real
faith (meaning the kind that actually does
move mountains) died out of the «Christian Church» when the Bible was canonized, with little exception, and most of the exceptions were exterminated.
Well, the
mountain is in St. Matthew's report, and Matthew has Optimist Club optimism that
faith, leveraged on a mustard seed, can
move a
mountain.
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a
faith that can
move mountains, but do not have God, I am nothing.
The secret is not accurate knowledge of theology and
faith that
moves mountains, but love.
Matthew 21: 21 and Mark 11:23 Isn't talking about prayer working absolutely, it's talking about having
faith and whether or not you have any doubt in your heart in which if there isn't any doubt you can
move mountains.
And what if I had
faith that
moved mountains?
Jesus said that «I tell you the truth, if you have
faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this
mountain, «
Move from here to there» and it will m
Move from here to there» and it will
movemove.
Faith can
move mountains!
All the while, readers could emulate Shedd in imagining the
mountain referred to in Matthew 17:20 as a
mountain of flesh, able to be
moved (i.e., lost) by the person of true
faith.
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have a
faith that can
move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
I want the kind of
faith that
moves mountains precisely because it is small: small enough to need, small enough grow, small enough to surrender to a God that is much bigger than it will ever be.
The orphan crisis is gigantic — 440,000 in Haiti alone, according to Unicef — and complex and right now, we either make excuses, or we make
mountains move, one stone at a time, one after another after another, in the
faith that looks a lot like faithfulness, and look, look, look at what God can do with that.
In order to investigate the meaning to be attributed to «
faith» as Jesus used it, we have to consider, in addition, the complex of sayings about
faith «
moving mountains» or «uprooting trees».
with
faith like that you could
move mountains.
Since a developing tradition does not sharpen and isolate metaphors but rather mixes and blunts them, we may assume that these two sayings have given nse to the tradition of
faith «
moving mountains» in the Church rather than vice versa, and there is good reason to accept their authenticity.
Having religious longings of a sort (he swore that the later poems were as religious as the early ones, though secretly so), he wrote like a helpless saint; but having
faith smaller than any mustard seed, he saw no chance of
moving mountains except by courage and incantation.
13.2, `... if I have all
faith, so as to remove
mountains... and gnosticized versions of it occur twice in Thomas, where the gnostic «unity» which is expressive of the state of salvation is such that «they shall say to the
mountain: «Be
moved», and it shall be
moved» (logion 48, cf. 106).
The most reasonable explanation of this complicated complex of sayings would appear to be (I) that there is widespread tradition that triumphant Christian (or gnostic)
faith is such as to be able to «
move mountains» (I Cor.
Having
faith smaller than any mustard seed, he saw no chance of
moving mountains except by courage and incantation.
Christ tells us if we have the
faith of a mustard seed we can
move a
mountain.
In Matthew he says, «Because of your little
faith,» and adds that with even a little
faith, small as a mustard seed, one could order a
mountain to
move and be obeyed (cf. Mk 11:23; Mt 21:20).
When things didn't go her way, she did not despair, or write in apocalyptic terms, or withdraw from the public square, or ignore the power of
faith to
move mountains.
If you prayed to that can of green beans and had a
faith the size of a mustard seed, you could
move as many
mountains, as if you had prayed to Jesus!
Are you sure you that you have the measure of
faith that Jesus was saying was needed to
move a
mountain?
Your
faith is very strong indeed and I hope my
faith remains as strong because with
faith we can
move mountains (obstacles» to our spiritual growth and understanding).
His
faith, I think, will
move mountains, while ours — mine in any case — will not....
Faith will
move a
mountain.
This is the prayer of
faith that
moves mountains, feeds the multitudes, cleans up the city, and reaches thousands for Christ.
With
faith you can
move mountains.
That was the kind of
faith I'd heard about in churches, generally reserved for
moving mountains.
Morning It's been said that
faith may
move mountains, but prayer
moves God.
Let us maintain our
faith in the power of art to articulate and propose things that don't exist but really should — and, in turn, let us temper our
faith in the power of
faith: It isn't
faith that
moves mountains, after all, but people.
Maybe you believe
faith can
move mountains, but I'll pit myself, plus a humble teaspoon against all the
faith you can assemble, as far as
mountain moving goes.
God
moves mountains thru prayer and
Faith!!
Faith can
move mountains — hand stamped mantra cuff bracelet — customizable — skinny silver — religious jewelry — Bible — daily reminder — strong
Faith Can
Move Mountains!
Can
faith really
move homes as well as
mountains?