Sentences with phrase «abiding faith»

Thus we have freedom of enquiry coupled with loyalty to the essence of the tradition; we have openness of mind combined with abiding faith in the gospel's Lord.

Berger's own life, characterized by abiding faith, insatiable curiosity, and exemplary scholarship, might be regarded as a sort of empirical demonstration of this claim.

But Pacquiao is packing a secret weapon when he walks into the ring - a deep abiding faith.

«The Class - Consciousness Raiser,» June 10, 2007 «It may be that the only people with abiding faith in the power of class divisions in America are the country's few remaining Marxists and Ruby Payne.»

But now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.»

Paterson, a Newbery Medalist and National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, writes from her own abiding faith as she adds her careful embroidery to Saint Francis» canticle.

She conveys a winning combination of country - honed gumption and deeply abiding faith in this sketchy yet heartfelt biopic based on her son John Carter Cash's memoir.

The author believes that the Abraham - Isaac scripture comes to us not only to demonstrate how very arduous it is to have a true, abiding faith in God, but also to paint for us the magnificence of the Creator's grace in our lives.

How can you have a meeting with people who come to it with a deep abiding faith that a fertilized egg is a person, and a blastocyst created by nuclear transfer is a person, and the destruction of that blastocyst to harvest stem cells is murder?

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these [is] love.»

«It will not surprise those who know her that Barbara Bush has been a rock in the face of her failing health, worrying not for herself — thanks to her abiding faith — but for others,» McGrath said in a statement.

In her memory, we devote our actions to a just cause; to defend what is right and to protect the interest of not only shareholders but most importantly the far more important stakeholders of employees, drivers and customers whose lives have been forever altered by the abiding faith and fervent hard work of Travis Kalanick and the Uber team.

For Burton, much like Burkhead, this deep and abiding faith has implications on actions both on and off the field.

Then they grew up, childish ways of thinking falling from them as naturally as autumn leaves, while the abiding faiths clothed themselves in new forms and fresh foliage.

It is our task in our time and place to discover how to re-affirm that abiding faith and its gospel grounding, so that what it is about, what it is concerned to assert, is brought home to men and women today.

Here «the truth» means both our way of understanding and stating the abiding faith of the Christian tradition and our way of affirming this in sermons.

They have mostly been people of deep and abiding faith and I am indebted to them for helping me find glimpses of heaven in the midst of hell.

What surprised me about Bahloul, in both his public talk and our private conversations, was his deep and abiding faith in America.

In the account, Willis and his wife testify to their abiding faith in Christ and the eternal hope that tempers their grief.

I believe the Abraham - Isaac scripture comes to us not only to demonstrate how very arduous it is to have true, abiding faith in God, but also to paint for us the magnificence of the Creator's grace in our lives.

I am a member of the Episcopalian Church & have a very deep & abiding faith.

And, simultaneously, he discovers a deep, abiding faith in God.

The common thread of Democratic history, from Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama, has been an abiding faith in the judgment of hardworking American families, and a commitment to helping the excluded, the disenfranchised, and the poor, strengthen our nation by earning themselves a piece of the American Dream.

«Our campaign was built on a deep and abiding faith in this city,» Quinn said after thanking her supporters.

According to the statement, «we are running the spectacular shows as a way of saying thank you to our teeming subscribers across the country for their loyalty, support and abiding faith in the Glo brand over the years.»

While Clinton faces a deficit in trust with voters, she sought to play to a major strength instead: Her resume, plus an abiding faith in her capabilities as a leader.

«Since your emergence as the President of the Senate you have consistently demonstrated exceptional capacity, unwavering patriotism and abiding faith in the unity, peace and progress of Nigeria both in words and in action».

«I commend your courage in leadership and abiding faith in the ideals of democracy and the Nigerian project.

The lawmaker who used the occasion to celebrate the unity of Nigeria said the gesture was in fulfilment of his abiding faith in the strength of the diversity of Nigeria as a united and indivisible entity.

In the end, its staying power may derive from the fact that the debate rests not so much upon numbers as upon an abiding faith in the value of a robust scientific enterprise.

Coincidentally, the Danish schoolteacher Mikkelsen plays in «The Hunt» also has an abiding faith in rationality and humanism — which may or may not be justified, as the Kafkaesque story unfolds.

Abiding faith is no easy subject for the movies; too often it comes out pious and insufferable, and troubling masterworks on the order of Carl Dreyer's «The Passion of Joan of Arc» or Robert Bresson's «Diary of a Country Priest» come along once a decade if we're lucky.

It's about our deep, abiding faith in God.

Who's this «we» who have a deep and abiding faith in God, love of family, etc?

We can also sense his abiding faith in the power of education to change the world.

De Tocqueville's observation of American individualism driven by an abiding faith in opportunity rang less and less true for large swaths of the populous.