Sentences with phrase «faith accepts the challenge»

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@sciper: ok so you're saying that faith, which requires no proof works well with science that requires not only proof, but is only accepted if challenged by peers and tested over and over again... sure they get along great.

The moral challenge that faces many faith communities is how to accept and love people when you disapprove of their behavior.

Nevertheless, it is vital to accept the challenge of teaching the controversial aspects of the Catholic faith, while it is still legal to do so.

Most of these lectures aim at bringing the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism closer to Indian and Western Christians as well as philosophers, to deepen their understanding of faith and expand it to other forms of belief.43 His anthology «The Vedic Experience» which has been accepted and respected by many Hindus, tries to present texts from the Veda and the Upanishads in such a way that they become open towards other beliefs and transparent for the depth of faith.44 An important aspect of his literary production, already central at the beginning, but gaining prominence again lately, has been to address a Western public that faces the challenge of having to seek its religious identity and not being able to take it for granted.

But despite intellectual challenges, issues in his personal life and emotional swings, Lewis is ultimately remembered for his writings on faith: Even when it meant putting aside momentary feelings of uncertainty: «Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods... That is why Faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods «where they get off,» you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist.&rfaith: Even when it meant putting aside momentary feelings of uncertainty: «Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods... That is why Faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods «where they get off,» you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist.&rFaith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods... That is why Faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods «where they get off,» you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist.&rFaith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods «where they get off,» you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist.»

I think faith can play a very important role in peoples lives, but it should be tempered with reason, so that when science makes a discovery that challenges that faith you can adapt and accept that your prior held faith may have been flawed.

Your faith is a simple faith; one that does not challenge, but accepts blindly.

But there was also a refreshing realism at the retreat that trying to solve Wicked Problems may be a wonderful goal, but believing that we actually can may be naïve... dangerously naïve... because faith that we can solve challenges that are massively complex, that create fierce conflicts over values, and which arise from deep instincts over which we have little conscious control... delays us from accepting that the best we probably can do with Wicked Problems like that is get on with figuring out how to cope with their consequences.