Sentences with phrase «deep conviction in»

Imagine if, in an interview, you were able to speak out of a place of deep conviction in yourself - about your unique promise of value, your achievements, and your strengths - while also connecting genuinely with the unique other that is your interviewer.

Although restrained, her style was underpinned by her deep conviction in the emotive and expressive power of art.

Her style, though restrained, underscored her deep conviction in the emotive and expressive power of art.

Despite her restrained style — and unlike the rigidly formulaic work of the Minimalists — Martin maintained a deep conviction in the emotive and expressive power of art and decidedly handcrafted, delicate surfaces.

Not exact matches

Some may think that he truly believes everything he says and that he holds deep political convictions that he hopes to achieve with his campaign; others may think he's willing to say anything in order to stay at the center of attention.

There is one further point to be made, however, to bring these remarks into relation with the deepest insights of the Christian tradition in its best moments, and into relation with the convictions of the wisest men and women — past and present, in our own family, of our own acquaintance or within our own awareness and observation.

Hartshorne also has a deep and abiding conviction «that idealism (here taking Ewing's definition: the belief that reality can be explained in terms of the mind) has more to teach us than most contemporaries realize» (CSPM xiii).

In the Middle Ages, the motivations for the Crusades were undoubtedly mixed, but without the deep conviction of conscientious Christians that they should rescue the Holy Land from the infidel, they would not have occurred.

The deeper I look into myself the more clearly I become aware of this psychological truth: that no man would lift his little finger to attempt the smallest task unless he were spurred on by a more or less obscure conviction that in some infinitesimally tiny way he is contributing, at least indirectly, to the building up of something permanent — in other words, to your own work, Lord.

It is a fact beyond question that deep within ourselves we can discern, as though through a rent, an «interior» at the heart of things; and this glimpse is sufficient to force upon us the conviction that in one degree or another this «interior» exists and has always existed everywhere in nature.

These texts were studied in the conviction that doing so would lead to deeper knowledge of the divine.

It is rather to find a new way to sail through uncharted seas developing a moral code that is in touch with both our deeper Christian convictions and the reality of this generation.

They had inculcated a deep sense of sin and a conscious need of personal salvation; they had overpassed national and racial lines and had made religious faith a matter of individual conviction; they had emphasized faith in immortality and the need of assurance concerning it; they had bound their devotees together in mystical societies of brethren fired with propagandist zeal; and they had accentuated the interior nature of religious experience in terms of an, indwelling Presence, through whom human life could be «deicized.»

She is rightly convinced also that her conviction has deep roots in the Bible and especially in Jesus's concern for the poor and oppressed.

God blessed Dad with a deep Catholic faith — the conviction that Christ's presence and power continue in the world today through his Body, the Church.

David Barclay's ancestors were Quakers, who had deep moral convictions and were involved in setting up Barclays Bank.

Our forebears believed that deep theological conviction, linked with profound thought and directed toward practical engagement, could serve as the yeast in civilization, as a check against the demonic pretenses of the principalities and powers.

When I saw this video of Fox News» Megyn Kelly taking on two men in a heated argument about stereotyping women, it only confirmed to me that beneath all the layers of reasoning there resides a deep - seated, gut - level emotional conviction that women must fulfill their stereotypical roles.

as Flannery O'Connor put it in Wiseblood: «there was a deep, black, wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sinning.»

As a Christian, it is my deepest conviction that in Jesus Christ, God comes to call every one he has made.

A certain trust is offered in the conviction that he or she can endure this deeper world of pain, heat and darkness.

The message is unqualifiedly opposed to the use of violence in order to achieve good, but also a deeply disturbing reminder that violence is made almost inevitable when the legal and political system is unresponsive to the deepest convictions of millions of Americans.

Both the predella and the triptych give visual expression to Luther's deep conviction that God, who is hidden and invisible, accommodates God's self to our finite and fallen nature by revealing God's disposition toward us through material things: in the incarnation, in the sacrament and in the Good News of scripture received, above all, through hearing (a material reality, but not visual, to be sure).

But if it is such we must remember always that our Christian ancestors were using what for them was the best available wording to express their, and our, deepest conviction when we are true to the continuing witness of experience of life in Christ.

I am only saying that for many, if not most, of them it is not a deep conviction which makes a genuine difference in their basic attitude towards existence.

I've been moving in Victor Davis Hanson's general direction the last few months, having been impeded only by my own shallow convictions, deep habits, and a reticent wife.But, for conversation's sake, I'll offer....

The Puritans were earnest folk They had little patience with those who had no depth, no deep conviction, no profound concern with what God was doing in their lives.

Can we lose that salvation i believe so if we totally turn away from him by rejecting the conviction of the holy spirit in our lives.I say that because as a new christian i accepted Christ into my life and the holy spirit was convicting me to surrender my heart to him as Lord and i was resisting him i would not surrender to him fully and so he gave me a choice to either accept him or reject him.I believe he gives everyone the chance to make that commitment as Lord of there life.When we make that deeper commitment and follow him he will continue to perfect us through his holy spirit so that we conform to his image.By the way i knew that if i rejected him at that point that was it he would never bother me again i would have been eternally lost the thought was terrifying at the time.There was definitely a spiritual battle being fought over me i was very aware i needed to decide which side i was on.Thankfully i chose the winning one.brentnz

And those of us who believe in respect for religious conviction in its diverse forms have further grounds for deep concern if the choices are truly «all or nothing» between an imposed orthodoxy and an education from which all religious reference has been purged.

The reason it is so often a matter of dispute is that people differ in what they mean when they use the word, and since deep emotions are tied in with the conviction that the Bible is inspired, to doubt the kind of inspiration one believes in is apt to seem like rejecting the Bible outright or making it no different from any other book.

To say with such conviction that no Democrat will enter Heaven... based on YOUR interpretation of what God's holy nature is... based on a Book (no matter how much instruction and wisdom it may provide... without, it seems to me, using your own intellect to delve deeper into the whole of it... is in my opinion the sign of a Believer with a Giant Sequoia in his eye and teaching with his finger.

Deep convictions about who we are in relation to God and others are woven into their texture.

It was a deep, absolutely clear conviction that there had to be a great gathering in England and it had to be at Walsingham.»

I think, at least in our lifetimes, there will always be followers of Christ who's deepest convictions are that Scripture precludes sexually intimate gay relationships.

Thus, Maritain argued, existing democratic institutions need to be grounded on a deeper, sounder foundation of intellectual conviction and moral habits than had been achieved in previous history.

Communities have a right to configure the patterns of their collective lives in accordance with their deepest convictions.

Cobb's deep conviction, which he defends at length in his new book, is that the fortunes of natural theology today depend on Christian theologians appropriating the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead.

Far from sticking to the conventional standards of «Christian» art, Christian artists should be willing to take risks, to express their deep - seated beliefs and convictions in their own ways.

In order for growth to occur in the spiritual area of a relationship, a couple must be able to discuss their deep concerns, their doubts, and their convictions with each otheIn order for growth to occur in the spiritual area of a relationship, a couple must be able to discuss their deep concerns, their doubts, and their convictions with each othein the spiritual area of a relationship, a couple must be able to discuss their deep concerns, their doubts, and their convictions with each other.

A baby with a solid, loving tie with a mothering person, who in turn has a trustful nurturing marriage, will acquire a deep conviction that life and relationships can be trusted to satisfy his basic needs.

The vital matter in the New Testament's appeal from the injustice of the present world to the justice of the final arbitrament lies not in any special formulation, whether it be that of Jesus or of Paul but in the deep conviction that the «one far - off divine event» will be ethically adequate.

«My deepest conviction is that poetic language alone restores to us that participation in or belonging - to an order of things which precedes our capacity to oppose ourselves to things taken as objects opposed to a subject.

The deepest convictions of men in favor of future hope, therefore, have come not so much from those who have framed arguments for it as from those who have heightened life's spiritual value, given it new meaning, made it wealthy with fresh significance and purpose until it has seemed as though it ought to go on.

For Christians who come from cultures shaped by another faith, an even more intimate interior dialogue takes place as they seek to establish the connection in their lives between their cultural heritage and the deep convictions of their Christian faith.

The fear of losing one's job or reputation has made many Americans afraid to speak publicly about this issue, even though their deep convictions about life, marriage, and family have not changed in response to elite cultural pressure.

I would say that if war causes us to suppress our deepest religious, ethical and moral convictions, then we have indeed caved in to a «higher religion» called war.

(1) clarity, strength and persuasiveness of Christian conviction and commitment; (2) good preaching and the ability to design and lead meaningful worship; (3) conviction of and commitment to pastoral calling as integral to Christian ministry and pastoral care; (4) deep sensitivity to the needs of people individually and in groups; (5) concern for, dedication to, and skill in working for congregational development and growth as a part of faithfulness, for the nurture and retention of members who show signs of slackening commitment, for the motivation and training of lay persons to work for church growth; (6) capacity to generate enthusiasm in other people, personal warmth, competence, spiritual authenticity; (7) ability to encourage and generate a spirit of unity in a congregation; and (8) organizational development and conflict management skills.

Thinky for yourslef... then why whine... go for a longterm goal that will actually have an effect,... you seem to want to project enthusiasm... but if your conviction was truely written deep within u.... and it might very well be... i believe youd try your hand in politics... and another thing... faith has to be in a higher being because if you believe that you faith has cause... then what created that cause... why is it significant to actually have true faith

It is a just acknowledgement for a man who has been able to relate his deep Christian convictions with a liberating commitment in the context of his cultural roots.

Such ideas, however, were there; the possibility of their fruition was rooted in the deep convictions of the prophets concerning them; to change the figure, though the slag of the Book was greater in the mass, diamonds of infinite value had been formed in it.