Sentences with phrase «certain believers»

Personally, I post here because there are certain believers on this blog who post flat out lies and harmful insults.

On the other hand, culture that points out legitimate criticisms may bring certain believers closer to the faith by reminding them to shed un-Christian attitudes and to be receptive to the needs of their non-Christian neighbors.

Human nature is such that when a strong leader becomes convinced of the supreme importance of one teaching or of one strand, he makes that one the most important; and since such definiteness and such focus as act to differentiate certain believers from others are very dear to human nature, one new sect after another is founded.

In truth, though, confronted by such enormous suffering, Christians have less to fear from the piercing dialectic of the village atheist than they do from the earnestness of certain believers, and from the clouds of cloying incense wafting upward from the open thuribles of their hearts.

I realize that certain believers couldn't resist the temptation to see in this misfortune the avenging hand of God: the one who for so long blasphemed God was now getting his just reward.