Sentences with phrase «answers prayers of the faithful»

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I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.

Carlo Ancelotti finally answered the prayers of the Stamford faithful and left his intransigent self at home.

And it's beautiful to see how God has answered and still is answering the faithful, specific prayers of faith - filled parents in the lives of these young, godly women.