Sentences with phrase «abiding faith in»

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

«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.»

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

«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.

All prejudices and disagreements aside, there are in fact, universal truths that we all knowingly or unknowingly abide in that have origin in one faith, one God, one creator.

Instead, John is concerned that these genuine believers to whom he is writing — who already have been regenerated, who already have eternal life, and who are already born of God — will abide and remain in that position of being born of God, so that their righteousness, fellowship, and faith will grow and increase daily.

Paul encourages his readers to abide in faith, hope, and love, and adds that «the greatest of these is love.»

If «abide» in this verse means to have eternal life by faith forever, how can we take «abide» in 1 John 3:15 to be conditional on fellowship?

What is often neglected in these ministries is that the emphasis in the context of these Scriptures is not on the kind of faith or the amount of faith, but on abiding with Christ and asking according to the will of God.

If my heart closes, I have not love, and if I have not love, then I abide in death, turning away from the duty of my faith.

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.

This is why Donald Bloesch can say «only reflection [on Scripture] done in faith can grasp what is of abiding significance and what is marginal and peripheral.»

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.

Let us look to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, and do everything in our power to abide in him.

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.

This deep, abiding tradition shown forth in Augustine's thought, which Pope Benedict XVI has uncovered, is a classic example of faith elevating and purifying reason.

The answer is found in the last verse of the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians, «So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

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).

Their Americanization notwithstanding, the Durand - Perez family retained a number of features typical of every border family I know: pride in the Mexican culture and heritage; a deep and abiding religious faith; a love for both the Spanish and English languages (with family members having different degrees of competence in each); and a special esteem for the family's youngest and oldest members.

First let us say that one of the distinctive and abiding characteristics of Faith Movement, clearly stated in our aims and ideals from the very beginning, is the intention to uphold and positively defend the defined teachings of the Church.

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 norIn 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 norin 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.

Yet in faith we «see» that it is the most real and abiding thing we possess.

Christian faith holds that our abiding within a community founded on hope in God's promise, and actively shaping history through the practice of justice and liberation, is the most «realistic» posture we can take in the world.

Paul argues that we do not have a licence to sin.because of grace If christians continue to sin and grieve the holy spirit they clearly arent walking by faith or abiding in Christ.There has to be an ongoing repentence in the christians walk that leads that person to become more like Christ.It is true that salvation is a gift of grace received by faith however the word also says that we called to walk by faith otherwise it is impossible to please God and if we love him we follow his commands not willfully disobey.If we do nt continue to abide in Christ and turn from sin then i think we can risk Christ saying to us that he never knew us.Like everything that God offers us we must meet his conditions that are only possible in Christ..

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.

If a person is radically lonely and fears there is no remedy, faith, hope and love — the things that abide — are not simply inaccessible; these ultimate, sustaining realities are literally unbearable to those whose penultimate realities, including their own identity and relationships, are in total disarray.

Have all the faith you want In any pegan, you must still abide by my gods rules!

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.

Our security comes from having a close relationship with God and abiding in him through faith and obedience.

IN GOD»S NAME: Where Faith Abides, Employees Have Few Rights http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/09/business/09relig ious.html?fta = y & pagewanted = all

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.