Sentences with phrase «disciplined life of faith»

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It is the discipline of a church willing to be somewhat tentative in its hope, to see faith as a now - but - not - yet sort of thing, the discipline of keeping close to those whose sad lives challenge our facile assertions of deliverance.

At its best, this new concern with the spiritual life reflects a laudable desire to make Christian faith a matter of the heart no less than the head, a discipline of devotional practices rather than a repetition of doctrinal propositions.

A discounting of the importance of disciplined human effort in meeting the problems of life will enfeeble any faith or religion, and it is not Christian.

The other thing I know is that she, in every part of her life from diet to family to work to worship, exercises a discipline and orderliness and obedience that I could never attain to in a hundred lifetimes and that, by her own admission, those ways of being and doing come up out of her Mormon faith and are her praxis.

A converted church in a corrupt civilization withdraws to its upper rooms, into monasteries and conventicles; it issues forth from these in the aggressive evangelism of apostles, monks and friars, circuit riders and missionaries; it relaxes its rigorism as it discerns signs of repentance and faith; it enters into inevitable alliance with converted emperors and governors, philosophers and artists, merchants and entrepreneurs, and begins to live at peace in the culture they produce under the stimulus of their faith; when faith loses its force, as generation follows generation, discipline is relaxed, repentance grows formal, corruption enters with idolatry, and the church, tied to the culture which it sponsored, suffers corruption with it.

Christians who for methodological reasons thought that technical disciplines were best pursued without reference to religious faith promoted the same standards for those disciplines as did secularists who believed that all of life was best lived without reference to religious faith.

They viewed theology as either a highly personal, individualized matter or as an essentially academic discipline conducted in universities and seminaries, something not germane to the life of the church or to personal faith.

Producers of literature, when they are not themselves wracked with doubts or preoccupied with taking a postmodern revenge on traditional expectations of order, speak out of a prescientific discipline of expectation — a school of faith that models the need to bracket with ironic reservation that information which, if not bracketed, would insist simplistically that life is only a bracket - defying tale told by an idiot.

Now this tendency, through the influence of grace, is not often exhibited in matters of faith; for it would be incipient heresy, and would be contrary, if knowingly indulged, to the first element of Catholic duty; but in matters of conduct, of ritual, of discipline, of politics, of social life, in the ten thousand questions which the Church has not formally answered, even though she may have intimated her judgment, there is a constant rising of the human mind against the authority of the Church, and of superiors, and that, in proportion as each individual is removed from perfection.

That socialization has taken place within disciplines which ask their own questions — questions often prompted by considerations other than the life of faith.

Faith, good works and repentance are the essence not only of Lenten discipline but of the Christian life throughout the year.

And discipline is not a function of character, but the by product of a strong will, a humble desire, a daily commitment with yourself of being completely honest that you will tell yourself no lies, no excuses, no blames, no explanations but an honest heart and mind to do what has to be done daily, with the strength, energy, faith that you bring to your life.