Sentences with phrase «abandoned the faith for»

For my part, I am a prodigal son, who abandoned the faith for many years.

So you want me to abandon my faith for your faith that rest in blind process that know no origins.

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Abandoning the culture of «no debt» that they created has undoubtably been difficult for the PCs as they embraced a new faith in capital financing.

Every honest Jew who knows the history of his people can not but feel a deep sense of gratitude to Islam, which has protected the Jews for fifty generations, while the Christian world persecuted the Jews and tried many times «by the sword» to get them to abandon their faith.

Moreover, B'nai B'rith seems not to understand that, in asking the SBC to «repeal» its resolution, it is asking Southern Baptists to abandon what is for them an article of faith, namely, that it is the obligation of Christians to try to bring absolutely everybody, including Jews, to a «saving knowledge of Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.»

All Christians should abandon the Neocon Freemason League if they blackball Tebow out for his outspoken Faith!

A British - South African hostage held hostage in Mali for six years has revealed he abandoned his Christian faith during his time in captivity.

After being in a Calvinist church for over a decade, and witnessing person after person and family after family leaving the church in a more broken condition than which they came, including several divorces, one woman abandoning her family to become a sex slave, and many rejecting the faith altogether, I discovered, to my great chagrin, that it had taken a toll on my family as well.

Well, bring it on: it is all an excellent opportunity for bishops to explain what Catholic education is really for, and to declare plainly that if the State expects our schools to abandon the Catholic faith as a quid pro quo for receiving Catholic tax - payers» money, then that is an expectation we are not prepared to satisfy: and then, we will have to take the consequences.

lilyq Faith is willfully ignoring what is and what we know, abandoning logic and reason, for what you WANT to believe is true.

I think rather that what he is saying is this: Revolutionary violence is to such a degree the only possible expression of the Christian faith that, if I suspect that my faith is leading me to become less violent, I am mistaken about the content of the faith and must abandon it; because, having decided for violence, I am sure that I am in the true Christian succession.

But at the same time faith involves obedience, for faith means turning our backs on self and abandoning all security.

For Brown, if the United States could commit itself to refusing to imitate the «evil deeds» of the terrorists, if the U.S. would eschew the violence that has marked its post-World War II foreign policy, if the U.S. could abandon its «faith in redemptive violence,» if the U.S. could spend as much money on a peace academy as it does on the service academies... well, there would be some hope for a peaceful futuFor Brown, if the United States could commit itself to refusing to imitate the «evil deeds» of the terrorists, if the U.S. would eschew the violence that has marked its post-World War II foreign policy, if the U.S. could abandon its «faith in redemptive violence,» if the U.S. could spend as much money on a peace academy as it does on the service academies... well, there would be some hope for a peaceful futufor a peaceful future.

Meriam was initially sentenced to death for apostasy in May amid claims she had abandoned the Muslim faith.

From this last experience emerged what was to be his life's work — a new form of evangelisation, living with the shanty - dwellers, caring for disabled people abandoned by others, teaching, and sharing the faith.

Those who maintain that the idiom of resurrection is to be understood only in the traditional (or Lucan) sense2 would, if correct, leave us with no alternative but to abandon the idiom as a valid way of professing our Christian faith, if we are among the growing number of Christians for whom that tradition is neither historically founded nor even very meaningful.

In A Common Faith Dewey suggests that organized religion once provided a useful sense of the whole, but that now it has abandoned that task and, instead, attempts to fob off on newly emergent societies the basically irrelevant sense of the whole generated by an earlier society in a different history If this last judgment is harsh, it was harsh because «the religious» was so important to Dewey and because he still hoped for a religiousness capable of setting forth a functional sense of the whole.

The Christian Faith is an attempt to find a rational basis for the affirmations of Christianity, and it leads him progressively to abandon the mythological form of the Addresses.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation now has a support group for the many many pastors, preachers, and ministers who finally see the light and abandon their faith.

Christian faith has deciphered in this man's exceptional outpouring of empathy for the poor, the captives, the abandoned, and the sick, the consummate entrance of an ultimate love and mercy into our world.

Faith is nothing more than a willingness to abandon reason for something that makes you feel better.

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

From another angle, I personally do not want to abandon the term because it shows a greater sense of responsibility for the sins of evangelical Christian faith.

God created Gays for a reason, curb the world's over population, find loving parents for children abandoned by straights, we need to have faith in God's plan.

I will use «secular humanism» as a label for the post-Enlightenment, nontheistic faith of the large and growing number of Westerners who have abandoned Judaism or Christianity without adopting another species of organized religion.

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.

On learning that, although Jesus Christ is the Word who was from the beginning, the power of Christ that was working for salvation before the time of Jesus, in virtue of his coming, is still working in people of sincere faith, devotional Hindus will want to know why they must abandon their own sacraments.

But for Luther, the priesthood of believers was not an excuse to abandon the church, but rather described the shape of life in communion with the body of Christ and the family of faith.

Then he abandoned me for long enough to get himself a five hour energy drink from a machine, apparently having no faith in his Starbucks coffee.

But for this view, this insight, this knowledge, we must abandon our faith in the pleasant poetry of Genesis.»

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.

I've been absolutely obsessed with this Scripture's» violent portraits of God, for I believe these portraits constitute one of the biggest reasons why many abandon the faith while many others refuse to take the Bible as God's Word seriously.

We witness it in the eyes of our nursing infant child as he gazes up at us with unquestioning faith, and again in the wild abandon with which our toddler runs and leaps into our arms, never for a moment imagining we won't be ready to catch him.

DAILY POST had reported that the father of one of the abducted girls, Sheribu Nathan, had disclosed that his daughter, Leah Sheribu was not released by Boko Haram terrorists because she refused to abandon her Christian faith for Islam.

Thirty - four years ago, a group of people made a leap of faith to realize a vision that they had long shared — to create a sanctuary for abandoned and abused animals.

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Or you might feel that there had been something there, but that the artist had lost faith in what she'd put down and wiped it off in preparation for another attempt that she abandoned.

Phillips excoriates his fellow leftists for abandoning their historical faith in progress, technology, and institutions.

Cobb is finally awake, the top does fall and Mol is dead as nails, Saito's fine and Cobb is better than Morpheus at convincing vanilla - life creators to abandon all reason, risk their lives and take a leap of faith for just a taste of «intensity and raw creation».