Sentences with phrase «else than faith»

Perfect civil righteousness does not undo the basically sinful nature of man; only spiritual righteousness does that, and spiritual righteousness is nothing else than faith in Christ.

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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.

More important than all else, however, he hid from no one the joy God had offered him through the rediscovery (when he was approaching 33 years of age) of his Catholic faith, leading to his first communion and confirmation a mere 9 years ago.

And I think all atheists everywhere should revel in the mercenary nature of Christmas (now far more Jewish / East Indian in its execution than anything else) and its exposure of «faith» as a conduit for greed, judgment, and repression.

Faith that the sun will rise is more of a resonable expectation than a belief despite evidence — there is a precedent set based on long observation by not only the person making the belief statement, but also by everybody else in the world (except maybe the Inuit).

If this is a true description of faith, then faith is more like an intense mud - wrestling contest than anything else.

So for all your faith, prayer, and scripture study you don't actually have any more of a clue how the universe was created than anyone else.

I think that the crisis goes deeper than any particular systematic expression of Catholic faith - Thomism, Holloway, or whoever else.

It seems Lewis is accepted because he could articulate the Christian faith better than pretty much anyone else we have had or currently have, yet all his controversial beliefs and writings are ignored or not spoken of.

He was implying that we all fall short of God's standards, no one is better than anyone else, and we will all perish if we don't repent and turn to Christ in faith as our Savior for healing and forgiveness.

Those with faith - based views are seen as holier - than - thou bigots who don't want anyone else to enjoy life.

And, let us be frank: is it really so certain that formerly, when religion and the Church played a greater part in public life, men really had more true faith, hope and charity, which, after all, are more important than anything else?

I have much more respect for someone who owns up to that rather than trying to convince me and everyone else that there is evidence for creation, geologic evidence of a worldwide flood, scientists are part of a conspiracy, evolution is a faith etc. etc. etc..

It's fun to read that everyone else is soooo much more intelligent than those that choose my faith.

However, look at the statistics, believers have shown themselves to be no more or less moral than everyone else, regardless of faith, so why is that?

The idea of writing a story about a man who had no faith and then suddenly was faced with accepting something more powerful than myself, followed by miracle after miracle — should certainly help someone else.

Personally I think y» all have more faith than everyone else to believe that there is no God.

ok i've decided — after soul searching and observing my and other's reactions to these religious blog news on CNN learning more about religion from this alone and about the mideast than from anywhere else in my USA educated life i need to be more tolerant of others having religious based governments THAT is what is confusing me — that religion are governments are not seperated that is hard for much of USA population to understand perhaps it is for me i think you would have to actually live in a society like the mideast to truly understand it i mean — actually be part of the society the religious part is truly offputting — since most in USA seperate church and state like — church is for faith and imagination and celebration and family and community involvement and state is for protection and education and health and infrastructure, etc., for all it is hard to be serious about religion — when the serious side of society is state it is hard to see religion being the serious side of enforcement — and the state enforcing the faith based side of society egad — doesn't god get lost in all that?

And she spoke of her faith in a quiet and thoughtful way that was different than anyone else I knew.

As for your «temporal pleasures» comment... enjoy your faith in what you have waiting for you be it 72 virgins, valhalla, heaven, whatever... no one knows and you are not any different than anyone else in that aspect.

Its amazing that we celebrate the public displays of faith by a young multi-millionaire who has done nothing else except to contravene Christian teachings and made himself the focus of a discussion of faith rather than God, and ignore the work being done by others who have walked away from the limelight.

The passive reception of information and someone else's ideas does not constitute education any more than merely giving mental assent to a set of doctrines constitutes Christian faith.

If there is one thing more than anything else which could be referred to as the catalyst which enabled the Easter faith to become a reality, it would be the experiences of those apostles, beginning with Peter, which made them convinced that Jesus had appeared to them.

Though the destruction of the universal elements in the Protestant faith has progressed further in certain sections of the German church than anywhere else this same process is actively present in American life.

Either there is an absolute duty toward God, and if so it is the paradox here described, that the individual as the individual is higher than the universal and as the individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute / or else faith never existed, because it has always existed, or, to put it differently, Abraham is lost, or one must explain the passage in the fourteenth chapter of Luke as did that tasteful exegete, and explain in the same way the corresponding passages and similar ones.

The Chalcedonian definition is not the foundation of saving faith, and unless one accounts for it genetically, it is more likely to mystify» than to enlighten us, or else to become a mere shibboleth of doctrinal correctness.

You need something else to prove your faith as anything other than just another collection of ancient stories.

Pro-life Christians never will, and it is abortion, more than anything else, that has shaken their faith in America as «one nation under God.»

My faith was also influenced by my Grandparents, who I was very close to, and it was from them more than anyone else that I learnt how to pray.

«there are three things in which man finds the sweetness of the faith; that God and his prophet may be for him more loved than anyone else; that in loving the human being one does not love him unless in God» [3].

Just keep telling yourself that your faith makes you superior, it feels good to believe yourself better than everyone else, to have that confidence in you getting a reward when others won't.

When you were a Christian, did you ever believe that you felt God's presence, or was your faith experience more cognitive than anything else?

The way you supporters of the nation's community organizer are whining and name calling about a minor side story concerning one woman's faith and views says more about you than anything else.

Yes, you have your opinion on the matter but it is no more valid than anyone else's opinion on faith.

@William... NOT EVERYONE WHO HAS FAITH IN SOMETHING GREATER THAN THEMSELVES DOES THAT... I can't stand dogmatic, Christian fundamentalists either, but you are unjustly grouping all people of faith together as being prejudiced and out to manipulate everyone else into believing what they believe, and it simply isn't the FAITH IN SOMETHING GREATER THAN THEMSELVES DOES THAT... I can't stand dogmatic, Christian fundamentalists either, but you are unjustly grouping all people of faith together as being prejudiced and out to manipulate everyone else into believing what they believe, and it simply isn't the faith together as being prejudiced and out to manipulate everyone else into believing what they believe, and it simply isn't the case.

To follow Luther has meant more than anything else to accept the slogan «justification by faith alone.»

Wont mind if he leaves with Walcott Oxlade — Points towards being a flop more than anything else, but I still have some faith for him.

Whether or not you still have faith in Arsene Wenger, at the current moment in time, he is in the position to pick the best team more than anyone else.

Nothing is more heartbreaking than putting your faith and trust in someone only to find they've been putting something much more fleshy into someone else.

This is why ChristianCafe.com offers the best at its game — what else would come better than by being able to search through countless profiles of purely your own preference in regards to faith?

Miller recalls that other than Guster's music, Trevorrow hadn't heard anything else «I hadn't read the script, and he hadn't heard any of my stuff, so it was really blind faith that we were both going to like each other's work.»

Spirituality and my abiding faith are more important than anything else in my life.

This perspective could be easily dismissed by a reader agreeing with the excellent «New Yorker» article you cited: I'm placing my faith in an «expert» fund manager with no greater ability to predict the future (and select winning stocks) than anyone else, and I'd be better off indexing.

This can be a big leap of faith, as you will be entrusting your baby to someone else — again, something that is much easier said than done.

Perhaps more than anyone else, you can hold the faith for what your partner can become and offer the encouragement that will make that possible.