Sentences with phrase «example by faith in»

(Here Jesus calls His disciples to be like Him and that we are not to fear, but to look to His example by faith in Him.)

Not exact matches

The Christian faith and the other faiths that believe in a loving, peaceful God (including much of the Islamic world) have reached out into our communities to help people — helping first and preaching God's love by example.

Seriously, President Obama says he came to his faith later in life because he saw in Jesus a living example of principles he could try to live by.

The ethics and compassion and example that Christ lived by and was killed for, or do you believe more in the dogma, and doctrines of your «faith»?

They still have to comply with federal and state laws, which means gays are out, but everyone else has to be considered for employment by the company (the only exceptions to the law are where your religion or other protected status are essential for the job... for example, a Muslim couldn't sue an Episcopalian church who wouldn't hire them in an administrative role because their faith clashes with that of the church — things like that don't apply to a fast food chain).

The Old Testament is filled with examples of gentiles coming to faith in the God of Israel through the works demonstrated by Him.

And you lorraine are a perfect example of a religious zealot — bound by blind faith into believing you are right and that all others will persh according to some inane ramblings in an ancient book.

Christian missionaries in Mughal India were constantly trying to present the Christian faith not only by writing in Persian (the language of the Court) but also by telling the Christian story, for example, through the painting of miniatures, a notable art form at the time.

Along with conveying modes of faith by teaching and example, parenting figures in faith also convey the emotional states and the interaction with the self which they bonded to their modes of faith.

For example, one might suggest that if the creative inputs follow that broad theological / ontological structure of the Christian faith, integrate the key role models of their faith in the new structure and their inputs can be shown to be informed directly or indirectly by their own «conservative» tradition and the text, the Bible, they could be understood to be in line with Christianity.

(2) Such examples remind us that the church must not assume that faith requires protection by being shrouded in ignorance.

Scott mentions some examples of grievous willful sins such as murder, rape, sexual immorality, etc. and wonder what they mean in light of the gift of salvation freely given by faith in Christ.

For example, in one speech Hitler said, «In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that He may grant us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that He may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger... I am convinced that men who are created by God should live in accordance with the will of the Almighty... If Providence had not guided us I could often never have found these dizzy paths... Thus it is that we National Socialists, too, have in the depths of our hearts our faitin one speech Hitler said, «In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that He may grant us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that He may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger... I am convinced that men who are created by God should live in accordance with the will of the Almighty... If Providence had not guided us I could often never have found these dizzy paths... Thus it is that we National Socialists, too, have in the depths of our hearts our faitIn this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that He may grant us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that He may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger... I am convinced that men who are created by God should live in accordance with the will of the Almighty... If Providence had not guided us I could often never have found these dizzy paths... Thus it is that we National Socialists, too, have in the depths of our hearts our faitin the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that He may grant us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that He may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger... I am convinced that men who are created by God should live in accordance with the will of the Almighty... If Providence had not guided us I could often never have found these dizzy paths... Thus it is that we National Socialists, too, have in the depths of our hearts our faitin the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that He may grant us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that He may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger... I am convinced that men who are created by God should live in accordance with the will of the Almighty... If Providence had not guided us I could often never have found these dizzy paths... Thus it is that we National Socialists, too, have in the depths of our hearts our faitin accordance with the will of the Almighty... If Providence had not guided us I could often never have found these dizzy paths... Thus it is that we National Socialists, too, have in the depths of our hearts our faitin the depths of our hearts our faith.

You have Christian faith when these basic attitudes are consciously and pre-eminently drawn from, based on, or focused by the teachings and example of Jesus whom we call the Christ or the body of the faithful that we call the Church, and when there is a deep commitment to living out these basic attitudes in your life.

Prominent in the twelfth century (in ibn - Rushd, for example), this doctrine was rejected by later thinkers, notably, Aquinas, who insisted that faith and reason can not contradict one another.

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

Everywhere they will be a little flock, because mankind grows quicker than Christendom and because men will not be Christians by custom and tradition, through institutions and history, or because of the homogeneity of a social milieu and public opinion, but — leaving out of account the sacred flame of parental example and the intimate sphere of home, family and small groups — they will be Christians only because of their own act of faith attained in a difficult struggle and perpetually achieved anew.

They recovered the classical experience of reason as the potential infinity of human questions, showing how this dynamic «ratio» as a desire for understanding is healed and transformed by the paschal - metanoetic experience of faith in the Sophia - Cod of compassion and love.4 Aquinas, for example, understood God as «intimately present within everything that exists since God is existence» and that Cod's omnipotence — Aquinas wrote very little about it — regards not actualities but possibilities, and is best manifested in forgiveness and compassionate mercy.5

Two other examples were Matteo Ricci (1552 - 1610), who adopted the opposite path to de Nobili by assimilating into upper - class Chinese society during the Ming dynasty, coming to China in 1580, eventually undergoing a profound cultural transformation as a Confucian scholar; and Charles de Foucauld, who served in the French army in the Algerian war where he witnessed moving scenes of Muslim personal piety, leading him to regain his own Christian faith, and becoming in everything a Tuareg Bedouin nomad.

To pick some random examples: In the 12th century, Peter Abelard, after a life of tragedy and tribulation, concludes his account of his own faith by saying, «The storm may rage but I am unshaken, though the winds may blow they leave me unmoved, for the rock of my foundation stands firm.»

yes i will.this is our mission to follow and the example of him.by him he said we will do greater works than he by our faith in him we have all this power avalible.the works he did when here we then we have alsp and more.

Applied to the description of the Christian life, this means that our standpoint is directly opposed to that neo-orthodox doctrine which stresses the discontinuity of Christian faith with the rest of experience in such a way that it is asserted, for example, by Dr. Daniel T. Jenkins that there is «no kind of continuity between the «old man» and the «new man in Christ.»

He encouraged the pilgrims to «learn from her how to live with the clear conscience of those who do not bend to human compromises,» to be inspired by «her example of strength in the moments of greatest pain,» and to «imitate the solidity of faith of those who trust in God.»

He hoped Christians would be led to profess the faith more fully and with conviction; to deepen their encounter with Jesus Christ in the Liturgy, especially in the Eucharist, and to witness the faith more credibly by the example of their lives.

Furthermore the recent World Youth Day provided a great example of many young people well formed in their faith, especially by new communities and movements.

For example, a number of nomad Arabs in the valley of the Euphrates accepted Christianity because they were attracted to the Christian faith by the power which the Christian monks and hermits exercised over the evil spirits in the name of Jesus.»

When, for example, Paul sets out to discuss such abstruse doctrines of theology as those of predestination, election, and justification by faith, in the middle chapters of the Epistle to the Romans (chaps.

The perfect example of Justification by Faith in action is the parable of the prodigal son.

bility has many roots — the love of neighbor inculcated by centuries of teaching and example, the faith in a God whose nature it is to order and redeem no less than to create.

In fact, the attempt to use television uncritically is a prime example of what Frederick Ferre has called our «technolatry,» the belief that «every apparent evil brought on by technique is to be countered by yet greater faith in technique.&raquIn fact, the attempt to use television uncritically is a prime example of what Frederick Ferre has called our «technolatry,» the belief that «every apparent evil brought on by technique is to be countered by yet greater faith in technique.&raquin technique.»

Christianity, which is all about faith in Jesus Christ, and walking with God by faith, holds up Abraham as an example to live by.

Here's another, scarcely less oratorical in character, from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: the title of this document (another wonderful example of Vatican bogus academic language when what is needed is a competent journalist used to writing informative headlines) is «Considerations regarding proposals to give legal recognition to unions between homosexual persons» (2003): The Church's teaching on marriage and on the complementarity of the sexes reiterates a truth that is evident to right reason and recognised as such by all the major cultures of the world.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

The principles of the science of theology are given in the articles of the Creed and in Sacred Scripture and they are known by us through faith, not through philosophical reasoning: you can not, by unaided reason, conclude that the doctrine of the Trinity is true, for example.

If Bell's book is not an argument for universalism, and that Bell's rhetorical questions are not meant to ridicule the traditional beliefs of eternal conscious suffering, penal substitutionary atonement, and salvation by faith alone in Christ alone, then the marketing mechanism is a paradigm example of what Harry Frankfurt has defined as «bull ****.»

When he does reach out to each one of us, it's an experience that can essentially be understood by the certain person and God (example if God bestows you the gift of faith, he approaches you in a way that only you will find it credible and also others who have a similar experience.

Gandhi, for example, was sustained by a deep faith in the goodness of human nature, a goodness he thought nonviolent action could call forth.

My feelings are Jesus was setting the example for taking care of one another (love) I think Jesus believed in a government for the people, by the people.I believe Jesus would want people to pull together for themselves and not for profits to the moneychangers.I also believe that If you have faith in Jesus..

It is no use, then, trying to show that theology was introduced at some later stage, for example by Paul; a theology was implicit in Christian faith, practice, and worship from the beginning.

However, 1) by no means is the entire faith «bad» or «wrong» because a handful of people abuse the religion, and 2) arguably, «Christian hypocrites» are not really Christians at all (in the Gospels, for example, the Pharisees, extremely religious Jews who took extreme measures to follow all of Moses» 613 laws, proved to be Jesus» «enemies», because they did not love other people.)

But the divergence between them is in reality neither complete nor final, unless we suppose that by some inconceivable and even contradictory feat of exclusion (contradictory because nothing would remain of his faith) the Marxist, for example, were to eliminate from his materialistic doctrine every upward surge towards the spirit.

For example, in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis he seems to express a further aspect of the role of the Pope: the Pope by his own authority not only teaches the Faith as the head of the College of Bishops but is also able to discern clearly what teachings are indeed infallibly taught by the Ordinary Magisterium of the Church.

Dialogue, particularly with people of other faiths, holds out the possibility of conversion in many ways: conversion of others to the fullness of the faith, conversion of ourselves to a deeper living of our own baptismal grace, conversion of the culture to a nobler vision of the human person encouraged by the many examples of virtue to be found within and outside the Church.

For example, the Joint Declaration asserts, «We confess together: By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works.&raquBy grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works.&raquby God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works.»

She set the example by competing in Chopped, which was her way of taking a leap of faith!

Several NCF programs have been highlighted as effective examples of ways to increase father involvement in children's lives as part of a report of recommendations to the President: «A New Era of Partnerships,» produced by the President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

It can also be found in the wealth of specific examples chosen, particularly the descriptions of the interactions between government departments and their advisers, the relative faith in scientific paradigms of those directly involved in a particular field, compared with outsiders, and the importance of allowing «dissidents» to express their opinions publicly (note the recent attempts to stifle critical comment by professionals in the NHS).

«I think Mormons are an interesting case because it's one example of a faith community that has really high fertility patterns, in fact the highest fertility patterns in the U.S., who don't seem to suffer as much by having these large families when we look at educational attainment,» Gibbs said.

Mathematics, theology, philosophy and law are examples of fields that revolve within a stand - alone world in which new findings are derived by means of logical operations consisting of axioms, postulates or articles of faith (theology) that need not be proven true or accurate through empirical studies or analyses.

To save innocent and vulnerable people by any means is not called a «war» between two or more countries its called a genuine and good cause to be there.Americans did not loose a war, they did not surrender, they showed and left an example for other countries to reach for those in need, any day, any time any where in any circumstances, despite having any faith.