Sentences with phrase «abandon their faith when»

Could it not be as easily said that certain «believers» abandon their faith when misfortune strikes and the God of their imagination has betrayed them?

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When my husband was shot to death in a robbery in front of my building, leaving me very much alone with a 5 year old son, this tragic event actually caused me to abandon my delusions of faith.

When the Hellenistic Church once again bestowed upon the world the biblical name of «creation,» it thereby abandoned a truly eschatological form of faith.

It's reported a Muslim woman had been trying to force her to abandon her Christian faith but when she refused the woman became angry.

And yet, in 1816, when the edict went out from the Prussian government that no one of the Jewish faith could serve as a lawyer or an apothecary within the kingdom, Hirschel Marx abandoned his Jewish faith and embraced Protestantism.

When my new acquaintance discovered that I was a theologian and that I was particularly interested in studying how Romanesque art and architecture illustrated the Augustinian - Anselmian character of the faith of the early Middle Ages — with its profound pessimism about the human condition apart from grace — the conversation sent him into a mood of self - reproach and even to consideration of abandoning his dissertation topic.

When I got lonely — when Doubt had frustrated me and Faith seeminly abandoned me — I called for Certainty to retWhen I got lonely — when Doubt had frustrated me and Faith seeminly abandoned me — I called for Certainty to retwhen Doubt had frustrated me and Faith seeminly abandoned me — I called for Certainty to return.

As far as the Catholic Faith goes there have always been those in the Church who have done wrong, and more serious wrong than you are reading about here - namely the first Pope denying he even knew Jesus and all of the rest of the apostles abandoning God to that shameful horrifying death - when they could have stood by Him, defending Him against the authorities and even proving to them that He indeed was God - their Messiah before them!

The mother of two was jailed and sentenced to death in May for abandoning her Muslim faith, although she had never been a Muslim and was raised Christian by her mother when her father left the family.

When one couples with this the strong faith that the God of Israel would never willingly abandon his people, the developing interest in the destiny of the individual, and the shattering experience of oppression, persecution and martyrdom, we have ample reasons for the spontaneous development of this confident hope in a future resurrection from death.

When Brees blew out a knee in 11th grade and college recruiters largely abandoned him, it took faith to believe he would someday play college football.

When T'Challa learns that his father killed N'Jobu and abandoned N'Jadaka (Killmonger), he is horrified: The truth shatters his faith in his father and in his father's infallibility.

These men are disturbed when they hear that their mentor Father Ferreira (Liam Neeson) has abandoned the faith while on a dangerous mission trip in Japan.

Yet May's own faith in true love was destroyed years ago when she was abandoned by the father of her child.

-- Debbie Macomber, # 1 New York Times bestselling author on Ransom Canyon From the beloved and bestselling author of the Ransom Canyon and Harmony, Texas series comes a powerful, heartwarming story about generations of family and the ironclad bonds they forge When Jillian James lands in the small town Texas community of Laurel Springs, she's definitely not planning to stay — except to find a few clues about the father who abandoned her and destroyed her faith in family.