Sentences with phrase «by faith and love»

It is the desire to live life by faith and love.

Strictly speaking the law would not be necessary if all were Christian, but God gives it for the restraint of those whose hearts are not governed by the Holy Spirit, including those who are nominally Christian, but who do not live by faith and love.

Not exact matches

And while the show set out to reveal the human side of such families - not one sexed - up by Hollywood (think HBO's «Big Love») or sullied by allegations of under - aged brides (think the trial of Warren Jeffs)- it kept details about faith out of episodes.

(He promised the Spirit of Truth... NOT a book) And BTW — I live out my faith by loving those around me and helping those in neAnd BTW — I live out my faith by loving those around me and helping those in neand helping those in need.

It can only come by,» repentance toward God (HOLY LOVE) and faith toward The LORD Jesus Christ (God incarnate)».

The Christian faith and the other faiths that believe in a loving, peaceful God (including much of the Islamic world) have reached out into our communities to help people — helping first and preaching God's love by example.

Some of the good theological quotes did make it into the closing scene but no sooner had the credits started to roll than viewers were assaulted by «There's A Place For Us» by Carrie Underwood about «faith» and «love» and the line «we can be the kings and queens of anything if we believe» to make sure viewers walked out feeling good about themselves.

You are either intentionally or ignorantly — both then and now, i.e., 13 years later — are depriving those patients whom whom God of love is putting in your path to use your divinity school knowledge and your biblical faith experience to guide the path of that talk towards the absolute truth related to the love of God — i.e. true love which stems from God by giving his only Son for whoever to choose to believe on him to have «everlasting life» by having his / her sins forgiven.

and by that i mean the clergymen, not the author of the article, i believe in the good faith you good people have with the loss of your loved ones... god bless

Though I personally prefer «faith» bc my spiritual self has been fed by a Love greater than my own... and indeed, faith freed me from religion in a way that spirituality hadn't.

Christianity spread by faith, hope and love, not persecution.

So each takes his own «knowing» and lives by it... whether in faith, hope, and love, or in any other way one wishes to pursue «it»... that is our free will to do so.

Luther's mistrust of the message of James» i.e., that faith without validating works is dead (James 2)» has been inherited by and continues to hamstring Luther's spiritual offspring, who wrongly juxtapose grace and law, mercy and justice, love and holiness, indeed, the ethical standards of the Old and New Testaments.

They are found to be a very Rich & Powerful Groups and Mother of Groups that control lives of Millions... Now Finding Peace means that we should think on how to get those Master Keys or Super Master Keys of Super Powerful Groups that are to be gathered all in one Ring lock that works to getting them to work towards One Purpose only and that is on how to make Human Life better Globally and that by investing in them human populations worldwide not minding their Race or Faith or Political interests such will work towards Building Bridges between all Nations holding and calling one Message of Love and Sharing in some form of Brotherhood that works towards a Greener Planet Earth!?

Contrary to the plati - tudes abhorred by Lamott and put forth often by people who claim to be Christian, putting faith in God does not mean letting go, it means grabbing on to the truth of God, trusting fully in Him, and acting responsively to His love which endures for us despite our undeserving nature.

Scripture can and should be enjoyed just by reading it and hearing the stories of love and pain, or faith and doubt echo through your own soul.

If the city assumed that Cochran's beliefs would continue to lead him to treat his subordinates with the love and respect taught by his faith, perhaps his impropriety in publishing the book could have been dealt with in a much less severe manner.

His legacy of writings and the Faith movement remain a remarkable achievement for someone who never really held any academic posts but was, in his quiet way, a «charismatic» figure, much loved by many and whose thinking and unique apostolate had a profound effect, especially on the young.

We are saved by faith, made whole, corporately and individually, by God's holding us to God's own breast by the love and sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

Still others stray from the faith (1 Tim 1:5 - 6), shipwreck their faith (1 Tim 1:18 - 20), fall away from the faith (1 Tim 4:1 - 3), deny the faith (1 Tim 5:8), cast off initial faith to follow Satan (1 Tim 5:12 - 15), stray from the faith by loving money (1 Tim 6:9 - 10), teach false doctrine (1 Tim 6:20 - 21), and deny Christ and live faithless lives (2 Tim 2:11 - 13).

It is common for those invested in preserving the status quo to try and silence those working for reform by suggesting that allegiance to a country or family or faith demands total acquiescence, that you can't love something and be critical of it at the same time.

, but by accepting by faith that God loves us completely, and wants us to break free from sin even more than we do.

but if anyone truley had God in thier heart and had faith in the Lord... simply by folding your hands and asking God to enter your heart... (try it he will be there for you, and you will feel the joy of His love), then they would never do things like this... he obviously was not a person who loved God because No one with God in thier heart would want to do thing s like that... you HATE sin when you truely love God, No ones perfect though, even those who belive in God we all stray from our beliefs, its human nature and the devil takes advantage of this.

Then there are the Bad Attitudes of the immature in faith: I have a hard time accepting myself; I feel overwhelmed by all the responsibilities and obligations I have; My life is filled with stress and anxiety; I tend to be critical of other people; I do not want churches getting involved in political issues; I do not understand how a loving God can allow so much pain and suffering in the world.

It is not the external observance to the law that will be the determinant of the reward, for if it were so, love, grace and faith would not be necessary; we could as well be handsomely rewarded by being a Pharisee.

Through faith in our saviour we know our sins are forever hidden from God and we are fully reconciled to him and loved by him.

Entry into this relationship of grace and faith involves the imitation of Christ, but this does not mean an imitation of the individual pattern of life which was required of him by his unique vocation; it means the imitation of his total commitment to God, his obedience to God's will, and his attitude of unswerving love for others which was the fruit of his openness to God.

This approach to beauty affirms its spiritual character by superimposing faith upon sight, silence upon hearing, communion upon tasting, touching and smelling, love upon sense experience and contemplative prayer upon intellectual analysis.

Gal 2:20 «I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me» The government takes care of needy people; does that make welfare love?

The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.»

More profoundly, it recognises that by accepting Jesus Christ in faith and loving Him, that choice is grounded in God Himself.

to know the truth — in a word, to know himself — so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves» (Faith and Reason: Introduction).

This approach ignores significant portions of New Testament teachings that suggest that «by their fruit you will recognize them» (Matthew 7:16), that «faith without works is dead» (James 2:20), and that «he that loves not knows not God» (1 John 4:8).

We former evangelicals LOVE to talk about our faith and are sometimes surprised by how little opportunity there is to do so in a Mainline Protestant church environment.

This faith and integrity and love were not vanquished by worldly powers or diminished by death.

Your faith in a dead God is vain; you're apparently blind to your own disbelief and sadly cut off from repentance of it; and your prejudiced accusations and support of a policy platform that defiles the sacred fountain of life, pretending to «love» people by clothing them in chains of dependency, expose your fearful guilt.

But precisely for this reason it is difficult to know whether we accept this cross in faith, hope and love to our salvation, or whether we only bear it protesting secretly, because we can not free ourselves from it but are nailed to it like the robber on the left of Jesus, who cursed his fate and blasphemed the crucified Lord by his side.

Though the various aspects and human developments of this grace - given event may be described in the scriptural terms of faith, hope and love, the event itself in its entirety can also be defined with St. Paul simply as «faith», and it may then be said that we are justified by faith and by faith alone.

As long as a person preserves his external union with the Church by fulfilling his duties, he may well himself decide in Christian freedom whether he prays better, that is to say with greater faith, hope and love at home or at a liturgical celebration.

We must learn that the unity of the faith and the will to obedience and love are not abolished by certain tensions.

What defines the inquiry as «theology» is its guiding goal, not the distinctive «methods» it employs (although it will be poor theology if it employs inappropriate methods), nor the distinctive subjectivity of the persons engaged in the inquiry (although it may be pretty thin theology if the inquirers are not personally «formed» by faith, hope, and love).

However, and quite surprisingly I should add, you might be interested to know the effect your words have upon a believer in God of forty years, and by the way I wish to thank you for your words in this province, that when I read such terse thoughts they have the distinct effect of deepening, in an extraordinary way, my faith and cause me to love and worship God even more than ever.

What matters is whether a Christian in the purity of his faith and his understanding of man joins the struggle and demonstrates by the audacity of his faith, by his love for his neighbour, and his optimism about the future, that he is not just the passive object of history or even of the new society, but rather the co-author and co-architect of the new order.9

Buber has said that the modern age is dominated by a Paulinism without grace — we are overwhelmed by alienation, despair and guilt, but we know nothing of Paul's celebration of faith, hope, and love.

... When God saves people in this life by working through his Spirit to bring them to faith and by leading them to follow Jesus in discipleship, prayer, holiness, hope, and love, such people are designed... to be a sign and foretaste of what God wants to do for the entire cosmos.

But Buber believes that Paul means by faith belief in a truth, a kind of objective knowledge, whereas surely for Paul faith in Christ is never separated from love to all the members of the body of Christ and to every man.

God shows his mercy and love to all, but He only gives grace to those who receive the free gift of salvation by faith.

When he warns, «Everyone who accepts circumcision is obliged to keep the whole Law» (5:3), he is speaking both literally to the Galatians and also typologically to us: If we insist on following the old customs required by those laws which have not yet been superseded by faith in Jesus Christ (that faith «which makes its power felt through love»), we will continue to be slaves, to be kept in our place, to be oppressed by those who have power through those laws to dominate us.

The Storm Theatre and Blackfriar's Reparatory Company (with a little help from Shakespeare, of course) have conjured up a delightful world worth a visit where faith, hope and love reign, all governed by a great deal of wit.

However, I lean towards a statement made by the author of the Letter to the Collosians: that your faith and love spring from the hope that is within you.