Sentences with phrase «depends on the faith»

Since then, we've developed currencies that depended on our faith in their value.

Science does not require or depend on faith.

If you depend on your faith to save you, then you are actually in relationship with God, so you help people anyway out of that relationship.

It is quite clear from the current economic debacle that the flourishing of our civic life depends on faith as well.

Though both depend on faith, we see the necessity for faith in the markets only when a crisis occurs.

The great social needs and the projected social crusades of our days, which so depend on faith in God, may well themselves create the atmosphere in which we find God.

It all depends on our faith in Jesus.

However, if church membership is not experienced by adults as a way of living in the world that depends on faith in Jesus Christ, infant baptism may only foster spiritual complacency and reliance on an empty ritual.

Faith traditions which carve out space for supernatural activity are inherently unstable, Harding finds, in the sense that «they depend on faith constantly constructed out of intrinsically dubious claims.

A lot of it depends on your faith.

Such as these has to be gained from reading, learning, experimenting... it is through that activity of thinking, mankind becomes inspired either by signs or revelations during being awake or as dreams during sleep... Depending on his faith and belief..

The demand came at a time when the people around him were depending on their faiths to manage life.

That creates a mental block which only seems more impassable because his wife (played by Bettany's real - life spouse Jennifer Connelly) depends on her faith to carry her through the grieving process.

Miracles depend on the faith of the believer, not that of the officiant.

Whether this is good or bad depends on your faith in active managers.

Not exact matches

Mr. Rosenstein, America depends on you to restore faith in our criminal justice system, which is going to be badly shattered after the administration's actions today.

The First Vatican Council included language like (the Pope) «is the true vicar of Christ and head of the whole Church and faith, and teacher of all Christians; and that to him was handed down in blessed Peter, by our Lord Jesus Christ, full power to...» This transfer of power depends on the Roman Church's understanding of the Office of the Keys which I do not agree with, but their statements make it clear that the Pope's authority as the Roman Church understands it is derived from Christ's.

The argument for our origins (historical science) does depend on what people believe (faith) and the presuppositions that faith produces.

The military's chaplin program supports people of all faiths and if you happen to have a work day during your day of observance or sabbath, most commands will let you take the time off to worship depending on if the enemy is firing at you or if your unit is short staffed.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

Not have to depend on so much faith.

Sure, truth and the object of our hope do exist very much outside of us, but faith depends on us in some sense.

I guess it all depends on where your faith is.

In fact the opposite is true, for they are willing to trust God only if these millions of words written over a period of centuries from two to three thousand years ago are all literally true, whereas my faith in God does not depend on this.

Depending on who you ask, the Zabinskis either had no faith at all, or were a WWII Billy and Ruth Graham.

You can't have a rationale discussion with a believer... Rationale and logic means breaking down the evidence in light of reality and conforming your beliefs to these... Religion is not rational... it depends vastly on Faith which is ABSENT of evidence.

Joseph Ratzinger / Benedict XVI has no rival in successfully combining the reputed opposites of rationality and faith - thus showing science and religion not as contradictions but as two things depending on one another: only in cooperation can they reveal their true greatness.

Much depends on exactly what is meant by «mind», but I daresay at least some readers of Faith magazine might have cause to question this assertion!

Depends on the usage of the term «faith».

The Church, and faith, do not depend for their survival on human efforts alone.

Even the mysteries of faith are mysteries not because they are believed with no reason whatsoever, but rather because we depend on God to reveal the evidence of these mysteries to us.

Obviously in terms of what role they choose in pursuing their faith would depend on the individual.

On such acts of faith our economic livelihood depends.

Luther so rejoiced that nothing depended on him, not even the coming to faith or the having of faith.

fares in the future might depend on the very faith that often engenders such extremism.

Moreover, in responding to this truth in faith we find that it snatches us from ourselves, as Luther put it, «and places us outside ourselves, so that we do not depend on our own strength, conscience, experience, person, or works... (12)

The good or evil of a faith depends on the object of that faith.

I have seen miracles and have taken part in a prayer for healing that resulted in a miracle (medically verifiable) but had that miracle depended on my «faith» it would not have happened.

That the future of generations doesn't have to depend on the fact that you have faith that the facts which you gather next ARE going to SUPPORT your theory, OR rather that your non creationist theory can be reversed, if need be, in the quest for truth.

Depending on which proponent of creationism you speak to they will allow or disavow whatever aspects of evolution suits the needs of their faith.

That one can dare to maintain such hope depends on acceptance of the Christian faith's promise that precisely in the relinquishing of concern for one's own security, ultimate security and meaning are found.

When asked why, they responded, «Because Western Christians often put so much faith in their prosperity and political freedoms that they don't know what it's like to have to depend completely on God.

As the writer of the Letter to the Hebrews puts it: Jesus «is the author and perfecter of faith», or, as the New English Bible has it, on him «faith depends from start to finish».

Church for me has been hospital when I was spiritually weak and aching, a refuge during storms, a place to celebrate victories, and a community of people I can depend on for relationship, accountability, and partnership in my faith journey.

Ounbbl, are you saying that your faith depends on certain stories being historical fact?

Such a testimony is not mine, I have questioned my faith, maybe even left it, depending on whom you consult.

Christian faith in the victory of love does not depend on any single interpretation of the events following the crucifixion.

In The Brothers Karamazov, things happen around the Grand Inquisitor that answer his questions, but he can not see that because he wants only one form of answer — a severely reduced form that depends on reasoning alone, stripped of faith or emotion.

Even to say «Our Father which art in Heaven» is to make a confession of faith which depends on a three - storied universe of heaven, earth, and hell.