Sentences with phrase «except for faith»

«There was no reason for this movie to work at all except for faith and love.»

It is in this sense that one may say there is no miracle except for faith, although absolutely not in the Bultmannian sense, and this is not the faith which from the human standpoint sees a miracle in any event.

Without becoming a new civic group, culturally too they retain their original jati, except for the faith dimension and the discarding of the varna ideology.

I believe this view is fundamentally antibiblical, since nothing has changed except for faith.

Not exact matches

No, although I've voted Democratic in every election since 1976 — except for primaries in Texas where there's no point in voting Democratic — I can say that every candidate I've ever seen has made some effort to look like a man of faith.

the mainstream media gave almost no coverage to Obama's faith except for the Muslim controversy.

Except for when he is killing gays, adulterers, non-believers, believers of different faiths, first born sons, and the entire world with a flood...

Except for minor racial issue in Australia and Europe, western world is the best among nations for immigrants with diverse beliefs, faith and race.

We have the lowly at the bottom who have little except for their «faith», then you have the guys with a special link to their «deity», who preach to the lowly about all their «sins»... I wonder what's in it for the creator?

The New Testament (except Revelations for a different reason) is to be trusted as events that happened, since Christian faith relies on the premise that Christ's ministry did occur.

Since it is not easy to draw the line between proselyting and evangelism, it may also be asserted that no teacher ought to evangelize for his faith in the classroom except through the silent witness of what he (or she) as a Christian is.

then what are you doing here at (relig1on.blogs.c&n.com) except for hating on people of faith?

Now I do not believe there is any remedy for this suffocating materialism except the recovery of a religious faith, and that means, above all, the recovery of true, essential Christianity.

Stop feeling persecuted, because it's not like they have reactions for all faiths except Christianity.»

There was usually no need for this however, except as a theological exercise, since the presence of a powerful and authoritative church and the possession of an infallible Bible were usually sufficient to re-awaken faith, if ever believers were faced with doubts.

There are few absolutes for me... except my own faith in Jesus.

Except you know they exist, It is the same with God the creator, faith is the most important thing in a persons life, for without faith.

i do nt know wheather you are still living in Law or Grace, but thats what i encourage you to find out, cause nothing seem to make since, when your still trying to live under the Law, you must except the free gift of righteousness by grace through faith, if not, you will always come under condemnation, I experience this for years, Oh Thank God I Am Free, Read Romans, Galation, and ephisans, and Hebews

You, however, have no reason except faith to plan for an afterlife.

Except for the ones he does not «choose» for the «gift of faith» right Steve?

You can not doubt Belief A except from a position of faith in Belief B. For example, if you doubt Christianity because «There can't be just one true religion,» you must recongnize that this statement is itself an act of faith.

Quite often, except for the calling to do our job to the best of our ability and to do it honestly and ethically, the specific tasks of our job may not have much to do with our faith.

I have gone to church for decades and taught Sunday School and other classes for decades, and I have never heard any fire and brimstone, except from the Athanasian creed saying: this is the faith, people, take it or leave it, but if you leave it you are still in your sins, and that is not how you get right with God.

The principal points Paul made in that address are (1) to recall to their minds the character and quality of his ministry to them; (2) to remind them of the trouble the Jews gave him and the anxiety and suffering he underwent in their behalf; (3) to state that he preached repentance and faith in Jesus Christ as the essence of the gospel; (4) to testify that he went now to Jerusalem not knowing what would happen to him there except that he knew by the Holy Spirit that afflictions awaited him; (5) to assure them that nothing concerned him, not even the loss of life itself, so long as he could testify to the grace of God in Jesus Christ; (6) to say that he had no regrets about his ministry to the people in Ephesus, for he was clean of the blood of all the people there, for he preached the full gospel to all of them; and (7) to admonish them to be diligent in their oversight of the Ephesian church and to feed the church of God there, which Christ purchased with his own blood.

If God now does not exist nor act except in existing and acting men, then faith is only another word for human consciousness.

Rulers may have gone to war for their own secular purposes, but Islam has never justified a war except for defense of the faith.

In a relatively short time the Muslims in China became almost totally Sinicized so that, except for those religious tenets which were retained as necessary to their Islamic faith, the Muslims could not be distinguished from other Chinese.

But, then, the dirty little secret is exposed: non-religion (or secular humanism, as Torcaso v. Watkins admitted) is just as much a religion as any other, except that by pretending to not be a religion, it becomes the Constitutionally established faith and religious test, not just for public office but anything public (public policy, the public square), whose content is defined by the clerisy of a five justice «theocratic majoritarianism.»

In Pastor Benke's actual prayer (as opposed to the written text from which he departed), he made no mention of Jesus (except in the closing phrase), nor of the significance of Christ's life, death, and resurrection as the unique expression of God's love, nor of the need for repentance and faith in Christ as means of grace.

New Testament theology is thus disqualified from playing a constructive role in the forming of a theological method which shall take seriously the problem of faith and history, and particularly this faith, rooted as no other religious faith is, in the very concreteness of history, and becomes nothing more than»... the first permanent expression of the distinctively Christian consciousness, and begs the question of the external history of that consciousness» (Ibid., 57, 58) «thus leaving... theology with nothing to discussion except the human need for self - understanding in general.»

Last year, Graham hosted the North Texas Presidential Forum, which included all the leading GOP candidates except for Trump; the event was sponsored by Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition.

Then comes a list of lesser things «beyond necessity, purely as a special service to God, which is contrary to faith... Tonsures, chasubles, albs... altar cloths, lights... bells, holy water, holy salt, incense», and a further list of ambivalent things: «veiling of statues, keeping fasts (except for the clergy), Litany of the Saints, Hymns to Mary of an evening, Confession torture, Palm swallowing, Passion sermons eight hours long, Consecrating the fire,... St Martin's Goose... three Christmas Masses, Oats on St Stephen's Day, St. John's draught».

The people of India would never refer to their religious faith and practices as Hinduism except as a concession to Western thought, for the Western label implies a pattern of beliefs and practices which is alien to their way of life.

My interlocutor was an adherent to a particularly colorless construal of the beatific vision, one that allows for no real participation of animal creation (except eminently, through us) in the final blessedness of the Kingdom; I, by contrast, hope to see puppies in paradise, and persevere in faith principally for that reason.

It may be happening in Western Europe, although the replacement has not yet a name, except for «secularization,» which denotes simply the decline of Christian faith and public influence.

John Dewey would have been at home with such a formulation, except the religion that he had in mind was his very uncommon «common faith» that he contrived as a replacement for the «traditional religion» that he thought hopelessly outdated.

Such faiths of singularisms bewailings are just what the preacher s do all hope and pray for,,, Singled minds that is,,,, never to rise up in unity except when the preachers do beckon them!

In discussing experience, the Bible, and the church as candidates for authority in the Christian faith we know at the outset that Christian experience can not be communicated except by being shared, that the law of the Bible is not of the letter but of the Spirit, and that the church can not be an institution that compels, but a community that frees.

Science dose not provide all the answers either but it looks for the answers and more importantly, when science gives an answer you do not have to except it on Faith, you are required to test it, question it and verify it until you are satisfied that the answer is right (at least right as far as we know now, it may change as we learn more).

The rites of other infidels, which bear no truth or profit, are not to be tolerated in the same way, except perhaps to avoid some evil, for instance the scandal or disturbance that might result, or the hindrance to the salvation of those who, were they unmolested, might gradually be converted to the faith.

There is no proof for God at all, except what one is willing to believe by faith, which also requires no proof.

Except for the Moros (Moslems) in the southern portions of the Philippines and animistic tribes in mountain fastnesses, the Filipinos were won to the Christian faith.

There's not one word of condemnation of other religions and other faiths in the teaching of Jesus, except for Roman emperor worship.

For example, the records with which the historian has to deal do not penetrate, except by faith, into that life to which, so the Christian believes, existence on this planet is but a prelude.

Faith is the most ridiculous way of thinking in everything we do in our lives EXCEPT for some reason when it comes to religion... then for some weird reason, it's okay.

The qualifications for entry into the presbyterate do not come out in the Tradition, except that a confessor 51 who physically suffered in his witness to the faith in persecution is ranked as a presbyter or deacon by a kind of ordination in blood and in the Spirit without the laying on of hands (cheirotonia.)

Selling him abroad this season to me will be one of Wenger's best and most brave decisions ever.He'll get my respect tor that.Who says we can't win the league with another player in his position?Have faith for all is not lost.The Van Persie case ws very different since at that time we were not financially strong and couldn't replace having to settle for second rate players except Cazorla at that time.In this case we can actually replace him.I can still see Arsenal getting Lemar because we still have a lot of money for transfers.If we can't get Lemar we should try other options for there's always better.

The Equality Act 2010 recreates GOR law in UK law, except that there is an exemption for religious schools allowing them to require every single teacher to share the faith of the school.

He said that he was «unequivocally» in favor of gay rights, except for same - sex marriage, and said his position stems from his Catholic faith.

In 2000, I took a leap of faith, quit my job, and moved out to Santa Monica — a place that felt like home even though I didn't know a soul, except of course my own, for the first time.