Sentences with phrase «abiding faith as»

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.

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Supplemented it may be by other literature, but it stands apart, sacred, relatively inviolable, abiding, unchanged across the centuries as the basis of religious faith and practice, as do no other writings.

what you would call «lockstep» i would call upholding and abiding with one of the basic principles of the catholic faith, which is to love on another as jesus loves us.

The best way to protect America is to warmly welcome law abiding citizens of any faith, such a rare and wonderful thing about us, something we can hold up as unique and special, something that does nt provoke but binds loyalty.Being different, more accepting and loving than the ugliness found in anti-Christian cultures, is our greatest strength.

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.

Christian faith is utterly theocentric; it is centered in God himself, in God as he discloses himself in the focal event from which that faith takes its origin — Jesus Christ, Man of Nazareth and Lord raised from the dead and abiding for ever in «the bosom of the Father

Through Christian education the fellowship of believers (the church) seeks to help persons become aware of God's seeking love as shown especially in Jesus Christ and to respond in faith and love to the end that they may develop self - understanding, sell - acceptance, and self - fulfillment under God; increasingly identify themselves as sons of God and members of the Christian community; live as Christian disciples in all relations in human society; and abide in the Christian hope.

1 John points out that to abide, you must also love one another (1 John 2:10; 3:15; 4:12), walk as Jesus walked (2:6), be strong in the faith (2:14, 24), and do the will of God (2:17; 3:24).

We journey in joy and to joy on feet fitted with the peace of our good news gospel, warding off every attack against that joy with the shield of faith, and wielding the sword of the Spirit, the very Word of God in whom we abide as He makes our joy complete.

In any event, I find that I have begun the decade of the «80s still firmly committed to the same essential project with which I entered the «60s: to work toward a genuinely postliberal theology that, being sensitive at once to the human concern for freedom and to the claims of Christian faith, will be as concerned for the credibility of the church's witness when judged in terms of changing human experience as for the appropriateness of its witness when judged by reference to its abiding apostolic norm.

I doubt that Orthodox faith communities are any easier to abide in than Catholic or Protestant communities when it comes to the mundane experiences of life; but at least those of us with mystical tendencies would not be attacked for being «pietistic» as we so often are in most Protestant, even many Catholic, excesssively rationalistic and legalistic Latin / Western Churches.

It is, so to say, a mediatorial task, although as such it is not one's own by any gift or quality which he or she may think to be personal to the minister; it is by designation to serve representatively for the mediatorship which Christian faith assigns to the Lord alone in any ultimate and abiding sense.

Jesus said if love the Lord with all our heart and all our mind and strength and love our neighbour as ourselves we fulfill the Law.The truth is none of us can live it without the holy spirit and abiding in Christ only in him can we do that.We are no longer bound by the Law which brought condemnation and death but have been set free through Christ righteousness which we receive by faith.

St. Paul enumerates these abiding things as «faith, hope and love.»

Once we come to some such religious vision, however, those who share in a profound faith such as the great religions make possible (and in our own part of the world, that means the Christian faith) can have a deep confidence that from the ruination of existence, which is the result of those evils just mentioned, the cosmic Love can extract genuine and abiding good.

The New Testament is in itself all that is necessary as a basis for Christian faith, but much light is thrown upon God's dealings with man in the story of Israel's halting and gradual discovery of the true nature of God as universal, not national; as law - abiding, not capricious; as a God of peace, not war; as a God of justice, love and mercy rather than of wrath, and vengeance.

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.

Reacting on the rerun election, Mr Adamu Abubakar, the APC Returning Agent for the election, said that as a law abiding party, APC has agreed with the decision of the INEC in good faith.

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 by Islam's firm ban on pictorialization (which forbids depicting not only the Prophet's likeness but also his voice), Akkad was forced to devise a way of telling the story of Mohammed, after his revelation, without the audience ever seeing or hearing him — or, for that matter, any of the other central figures of the Faith such as his wives or his trusted cousin and son - in - law Ali.

If I as a faith based person, had an abiding belief in Santa Claus could I expect to stop, on behalf of the millions of childen around the world who share that belief, the development of the northern arctic which we all know to be the spiritual home of Santa Claus.