Sentences with phrase «by faith in whatever»

Whether we place our faith in science, religion, education, government, the justice system or nothing more than the accuracy of the tube map in the front of our diary, each one of us lives by faith in whatever we trust to be reliable and true.

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Whatever one's beliefs, we are starting to recogize that supernaturalism in any form is not a reliable means to build a universal consensus.Any proposition that relies on faith can and will be twisted by unscrupulous individuals for their own gain.

Out of all the postings on this site today, I found «Derp's «post the most fascinating and informative, as well as deeply revealing.Even after boasting of what seems to be a practically perfect live by any measure, he informs us that he takes pleasure in mocking and ridiculing those of faith who are presumably his opposite; I can only wonder if, given all his supposed accomplishments, he is smart enough to realize how deeply revealing of his true character his remarks are.As a believer, I rarely engage in arguments with my atheist friends, and like to think I wouldn't lower myself to the level of juvenile name - calling and personal attacks against whatever my atheist friends hold dear.Most of the time we simply agree to disagree; when they hold forth with misinformation or ignorance on their assumed «knowledge «of my faith, I try to gently correct them; I certainly don't allow any disagreements we have to devolve into hateful insults and name - calling.

By opposing these things the Church is a «sign of contradiction'to the beliefs of the secular world, and other faiths, while acknowledging whatever is good, true and beautiful in other faith systems.

It is essentially a way of faith, by which man, in whatever generation he lives, is summoned by the Word of God to concern himself with the human scene, for this is God's concern.

The shift has created a great antithesis in the church between classical Christians who desire, as I do, to remain faithful to the faith once delivered and religious liberals by whatever name who seem intent on endlessly revising the message

Whatever the original intent of Old Testament myth and legend, it is shaped, preserved and understood in Israel by faith.

If in fact, by people giving out of love, it somehow helps those in Ja - pan that «do» have some kind of a particular faith, whatever their religious beliefs are, i.e...

Whatever the process of mutual enrichment between the Extraordinary and Ordinary Forms of Mass (as desired by Pope Benedict) will hold for the future, the present position of young Catholics is that they are going to keep or lose the faith through what they experience in the Mass celebrated at their parish and at their school.

exactly — people pick and choose bits and pieces of whatever faiths, ideas or memes help them build the picture of their god in their minds, the parts that * feel right *; brick by brick they're just building a spiritual alter - ego of their own selves, we create god in their own image;

But one of the problems, I believe, is the fact that when extremists in any religion do things that are appalling, which happens all the time; others in that same faith parrot the claim that «TRUE» members of the faith would never have done such things, so they can not really be... whatever religion was claimed by the criminals.

Finisher: As a believer, I would say that, separate and apart from your specific position here, you are not exactly doing whatever faith you believe in very much good by expressing your position in such a combative, demeaning fashion.

Here I side with John Howard Yoder against the view prevalent among social ethicists today that the early church found Jesus» sociopolitical ethics, including his teaching on peace, irrelevant and was interested in his life, death, and resurrection only as the basis for justification by faith; that whatever ethics the church taught was drawn from Hellenistic culture, particularly Stoicism.

Whatever form it takes, the abuse of power by a Christian leader, whether in a local church setting or by someone with an international platform enhanced by TV exposure, can have a deep and corrosive impact on the faith of individual believers.

Working along with science, theology is obliged at least to attempt some response to them from the point of view of whatever intelligibility is discerned by faith in revelation.

Among the professing Christians we know, who is able best to take calamity without being floored by it and, whatever happens, go forward with faith that all is safe in the hands of God?

In the opening sections he laughed at the way in which the theme of faith and works had now been taken up so widely by all preachers — «they slyly leave their sermon book under the bench and whatever else the shouting in the pulpit used to be about, and they begin to preach to us again on faith and good works, about which one never used to hear or know anything»In the opening sections he laughed at the way in which the theme of faith and works had now been taken up so widely by all preachers — «they slyly leave their sermon book under the bench and whatever else the shouting in the pulpit used to be about, and they begin to preach to us again on faith and good works, about which one never used to hear or know anything»in which the theme of faith and works had now been taken up so widely by all preachers — «they slyly leave their sermon book under the bench and whatever else the shouting in the pulpit used to be about, and they begin to preach to us again on faith and good works, about which one never used to hear or know anything»in the pulpit used to be about, and they begin to preach to us again on faith and good works, about which one never used to hear or know anything».

What these pastors tell me is that whatever imagination and intelligence they as pastors may have, it has come to them as a gift given to them — quietly, almost unwittingly, over time — by God in and through the people of faith who make up their congregations.

In the part beyond human conscious, where a person can't instantaneously grasp cause and effect, that's where faith leads to the poetic and sometimes seemingly delusional metaphors, used by religion to describe God or whatever aspect is just beyond perception when the person only has incomplete information, but still needs something to help us retain what understanding they're starting to build.

He proclaimed a new way of faith, by which man, in whatever generation he lives, is summoned by the Word of God to concern himself with the human scene, for this is God's concern.

Faith, in the context of an emergent universe, is simply the stance that we at the human level of emergence would take when we surrender ourselves to being influenced by whatever higher field there may be encompassing the cosmic hierarchy.

Microsoft has shown faith in the developer by letting them create whatever they wanted, and they're going to be rewarded with a console exclusive which is unlike anything else around.

Wall LJ was at pain to stress that in this case no one had acted in bad faith: «The honest answer must be that in any system operated by human beings, mistakes will occur, whatever systems are put in place to reduce or eliminate them.

Mr. Greenleaf here stated, that in such a case, the faith of the state of Massachusetts was pledged to indemnify the parties, by making full compensation for whatever property the state might take, and for all the injury which should be done to private rights.