Sentences with phrase «deep faith because»
He is repulsed by their superficial, skin - deep faith because, as C. F. D. Moule says, «Externals are worse than useless, unless the heart is in the right place.»
http://www.religion-online.org/ Not exact matches
I'm speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.
Unlike some christian fundamentalists who are fearful of science and reason, the Catholic Church and especially the Jesuits welcome this truth because they have a deep understanding of what faith is and what science is, and know that these things are not conflicting.
These two great forces maintain in Egypt a remarkable equilibrium without either destroying the other — perhaps because of the deep - rooted faith in religion which has been growing in the hearts of the Egyptians for hundreds of years — and education in Egypt continues to rest on the dual foundation of religious and secular studies.
I am not saying that the bible doesn't contain many examples of telling the faithful to dig deeper, to study more & grow closer to God through the study of the scriptures, but it NEVER says «Go ahead and study what other religions have to offer because it will only give you stronger faith in the bible».
I don't want anyone else scrutinizing my faith, because if they do, I'll have to scrutinize it, too — and I may discover that my spirituality isn't all that deep, coherent or integrated with the way I really live.
He encouraged experimentation with pastoral counseling which went beyond an exclusively supportive conception of counseling, because he believed that «within the Christian tradition in which we believe [is] the power of the Holy Spirit to regenerate people through merciful judgment and a loving challenge to grow through suffering into a stronger and deeper faith.»
I have a broad, solid background in science and this does not conflict with my deep faith in God... basically because there is no conflict.
While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you of the deep inanity of your silly faith, some priest doing magic hand signals over grocery store bread and wine is enough to convince you it is thereby transformed into the flesh and blood of Jesus, because of the priest's magic powers (or «sacred powers» if you prefer the more euphemistic term).
Alise: First, I just want to say that I love this question, because it already indicates a deeper understanding than we often see when talking about mixed faith relationships.
While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you of the deep inanity of your silly faith, some priest doing magic hand signals over bread and wine is enough to convince you it is thereby transformed into the flesh and blood of Jesus because of the priest's magic powers (or «sacred powers» to the extent you see a difference).
The text can be an act of good faith, because both transformation and stabilization are faithful acts of God and both meet deep human yearnings, but the mediation of either comes through the vested interest of the preacher.
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
Some found it possible to test their faith by reason; we found it possible to find faith because the deepest truth of faith is not contrary to reason — it may be reason in ecstasy.
How many people have walked away from faith because their systematic theology proved unable to answer the deep longings and questions of the soul?
But it's no surprise because the same man who frowns upon this, also had complete faith in the FFP rules and how the City's, Chelsea's and Barcelona's would be so knee deep in debt and restrictions by now, they would be able to pull off any sort of shenanigans and Arsenal would be the knights in shining armor at the top of the food chain!
As he looks back, he says he was attracted to the military's «faith to mission, the commitment to excellence because of the deep understanding that they can not fail.»
My faith is not shallow because I've been rescued from the deep.
But because Katharine, in addition of being an outstanding climate scientist, is a person of deep faith and she has really done some amazing stuff to reach out to some unconventional audiences to start fostering a broader coalition around this issue.
But there was also a refreshing realism at the retreat that trying to solve Wicked Problems may be a wonderful goal, but believing that we actually can may be naïve... dangerously naïve... because faith that we can solve challenges that are massively complex, that create fierce conflicts over values, and which arise from deep instincts over which we have little conscious control... delays us from accepting that the best we probably can do with Wicked Problems like that is get on with figuring out how to cope with their consequences.
My faith is not shallow because I've been rescued from the deep.