Sentences with phrase «deep religious conviction»

Where do you think the trust that leads to deep religious conviction comes from?

This was important to the son of a Presbyterian minister, who shared his father's deep religious conviction, if not his calling.

Although he fosters the impression that his policies are grounded in deep religious conviction, the reality is often the reverse.

I'm glad he has deep religious convictions and actually turns those convictions into action.

This approach has also led to the secularization of vast areas of public life, marginalizing citizens with deep religious convictions.

And the real kicker is that the photographer who refused to take pictures at the gay wedding, for a couple who may have held deep religious convictions, would happily grab my money for the same service even though I think their religious beliefs are coo - coo for cocoa puffs.

Somehow I doubt a billboard will change those with deep religious convictions, its more likely to anger them.

I mean «marginalizing citizens» is all Christians do, most often the ones with «deep religious convictions» that just don't happen to be Christian religious convictions.

Delegates here are fine tuning the message that you can have deep religious convictions and still vote for a Democrat.

Thanks for showing that you can, indeed, make it all the way through to the end of a passage, when it's made up of small enough words, gives you an opening (intentionally) to descend to juvenile muckthrowing, and understanding what it says doesn't violate your deep religious convictions about climate.

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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.»

He writes: «The Fathers at the Council singled out religious freedom because they saw (accurately) that our religious convictions and practices bring to fruition, however imperfectly, our deepest purpose as human beings — to know and love God.

Rollins writes that «this requires a way of structuring religious collectives that operate at a deeper level than the mere affirmation of shared doctrines, creeds, and convictions.

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.

When you attack somebody for their deepest held religious convictions; is that not a form of fascism?

They see religious aims as flexible, because religious convictions generally run less deep among them.

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.

Religious people have strong intuitions, deep convictions, and ultimate commitments which provide meaning and guidance for their lives, but often even they are hard pressed when they seek to support their own way of looking on God and the world.

My own conviction is that the historic religious traditions have greater wisdom and more capacity to deal with the deepest issues facing humankind than do the newer ways.

The secret quite obviously lies in religious faith, but, in particular, in the deep - rooted conviction that God had triumphed over all his foes at the beginning and that each succeeding year but witnesses his renewed victory over the same old enemy in his myriad Hydra - headed form.

Here I would only add that the ethical dimension, at its best, is grounded in a conviction about how the cosmos «runs» in its deepest reaches — which is to say that sound morality and sound religious faith are intimately related.

They always discussed the attacks matter - of - factly and were motivated by deep religious feelings and the conviction that what they were doing was right.