Sentences with phrase «eyes of faith»

When we seek, we seek possible answers with eyes of faith.

Likewise, through eyes of faith, the members of congregations come to see the abundance that is before them and surrounding them too.

Through eyes of faith, they can see what gifts they have been given in the people who, however flawed, are the members of their congregations.

The dynamic of such encounters has been analyzed with fertile suggestiveness by Paul Minear in Eyes of Faith [Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1946].

This is how to develop eyes of faith as a Christian, and see God at work in your life.

But God's apparent silence throughout most of history is not because God was absent or inactive, but simply because it takes eyes of faith to see where God is at work even when He doesn't have someone write about it.

You have to develop eyes of faith.

And the domelike quality of God manifesting God unpredictably still quickens the imaginative eye of faith.

In Grace McCleen's harrowing, powerful debut, she introduces an unforgettable heroine in ten - year - old Judith McPherson, a young believer who sees the world with the clear Eyes of Faith.

After we ask God for something, the next thing we must do is start looking around with eyes of faith for how God might be providing answers to the issues we discussed with Him.

It makes sense to me to give myself to Him and reality makes more sense to me through eyes of faith in Him.

If some hold that the play is not for such eyes but for the eyes of faith, I reply that in matters of religious art, as in other matters, we have the injunction to be harmless as doves but wise as serpents.

Following Calvin and Barth, Jones insists that sin can be seen only with the eyes of faith, that is to say, within an economy of divine grace.

The eyes of faith know that the deepest, and final need of every man is for the Word of Christ, the word that his life is significant and that he can, therefore, receive his life and live it.

Spiritual vision is granted to us all with the eyes of faith.

The God gave to the disciple the condition that enables him to see him, opening for him the eyes of Faith.

Only with the eye of faith can he strive after its eternal victory.

But it somehow seems odd that those who believe in this kind of answered prayer are rarely interested in Spirit, at least to the eye of faith.

When viewed through the eyes of faith, however, he is something like the Second Coming of Joe Montana.

Christians see the world through the eyes of their faith.

So the ascension becomes for Luke not a literal event that baffles scientists and historians, but a symbolic event lifted out of the Old Testament and told to open the eyes of faith, to behold this Jesus as he really is — God of God, light of light, begotten not made.

«No doctrine is dimmer to the eye of faith,» he once wrote, «than that which a man has just successfully defended.»

A third view is that miracles are faith - symbols, that they are dramatic representations of the inner meaning of events to those who witnessed them with the eye of faith.

On the other hand, he teaches that there is a real analogy of being in creation that can be perceived by the eyes of faith.

To the eyes of faith, evolution — even in its pre-human episodes — is already a revelatory story of the world's movement into God's future.

Thus it is tempting, especially in the light of revelation by which we view the cosmos with the eyes of faith as well as science, to hold that the material dimension of our cosmos was shaped by the promise of life, consciousness, and faith from the time of its earliest formation.

Cf. his Eyes of Faith (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1946), Oscar Cullmann, Christus und die Zeit (Zurich: 1946), and Karl Barth, Credo.

In the eyes of faith we are all diseased, and salvation must be to all what is so evidently needed by some — a healing of the self.

One part of the vision was fulfilled: by the eye of faith they already saw Him on the right hand of God.

A commitment to God, to the Word of God and to the calling of God can enable us to see with the eyes of faith.

This is the beauty that we can see with the eyes of faith, and evangelization in this culture that denies transcendence means spreading this «sacramental» way of seeing the world around us.

He cites the now - classic essay of the French Jesuit Pierre Rousselot, «The Eyes of Faith,» published in 1910.

Therefore in the last analysis each particular Now is to the eyes of faith that one Now which is the fullness of time.

God must grant «eyes of faith» in order that men correctly interpret the naturalorder's evidence as signs of the supernatural revelation's truth.

As her pastor, I must help her to see that her deep, unmentionable secret is in the eyes of faith a church problem, an invitation to renew her baptism and possibly that of her son as well by allowing her brothers and sisters in Christ to minister to their need.

The Lord's Supper is the time in the life of a congregation when the power of God's love to overcome the forces of evil and death is held up to eyes of faith.

Our table - oriented family relationships in the church are possible because behind the table, visible to the eyes of faith, is the outline of something more substantial and more terrible.

Through eyes of faith, pastors come to see the abundance that is before them and that surrounds them already.

Cf. his Eyes of Faith (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1946), Oscar Cullmann, Christus und die Zeit (Zurich: 1946), and Karl Barth, Credo.

but we must humble ourselves and see with the eyes of faith, so that we can approach God who humbles himself before us, until the two see one another, face to face.

If that is how you feel, God's work can often only be seen through the eyes of faith.

But this historian believed that to the eye of faith the works of God were to be seen in everyday life, in events both public and private, and in secular affairs rather than in religious activities.