Sentences with phrase «faith in a higher power»

What does it matter if your beliefs come from faith in a higher power?

I lost my faith in any higher power, spirituality or religion a long time ago, but this article touched me.

She is an atheist who is merely claiming that A.A. did not help her because she did not have faith in a higher power.

And if you lack the faith in a higher power or intelligent design you will simply never believe.

Yes, great wrongs have been done in God's name, but that does not mean they come from the faith in a higher power.

(CNN)-- When you can't forgive yourself, it's easy to lose faith in a higher power.

Eighty - Eight percent of those with Post-Graduate degrees express a faith in a higher power.

So my challenge, Prove to me why another person's faith in a Higher Power has anything to do with you.

Faith in one's self does NOT imply a faith in a higher power.

We do not have to have faith in a higher power to realize our potential.

There is no question that a person with faith in a higher power is generally happier, but I question the «healthier.»

Speaking of booze, for many recovering alcoholics / addicts, it's their faith in a higher power that they swear keeps them clean... faith is not always a bad thing.

@Alfred Jameson please see my response below regarding drugs and faith... drugs actually do do something... they destroy many people's lives (not everyone's lives, but many people's lives), and those same people recover from the destruction that their addiction to drugs has induced on their life through faith in a higher power.

You said you were from the Bible Belt, that the people of your state for generations were raised in faith, and that you yourself have faith in a higher power.

Its classical and religious symbolism points to larger questions of inherent faith in higher powers, but rarely at the expense of genre licks, the irruptive nature of the film's final shot tantalisingly ambiguous.

There's an interesting undercurrent of faith at play in this story — faith in a higher power that leads one into life as a Reverend or faith in a system that orders young men to die in impossible wars, and ultimately a faith in each other to do the right thing.

Mixing elements of Gothic horror and Film Noir with a healthy dose of face - melting psychedelics, Conduit will have you questioning your faith in a higher power and your own ability to sleep tonight.

Not exact matches

Justin Scott, a voter from Waterloo, asked the Catholic Republican presidential hopeful how his faith would impact his own belief in the absence of a higher power.

No money involved there, but how can we dissuade people from learning it, I got it... throw in some Christian faith, high - jack it from ordinary people and use said faith to attack said theory even though it really doesn't matter — but hey, its a wedge issue and might get said right - wing politician into power by exploiting peoples faith.

Turning it over to God / Higher Power or the Flying Spaghetti Monster won't get rid of it... I would like more science & psychology & less Faith / Religion in my 12 - steps.

«What greater expression of faith in the American experiment than this, what greater form of patriotism is there than the belief that America is not yet finished, that we are strong enough to be self - critical, that each successive generation can look upon our imperfections and decide that it is in our power to remake this nation to more closely align with our highest ideals?»

Rather, it follows the flawed efforts of terrified people who, out of faith and love, willingly «wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places» (Eph.

«I definitely feel the presence and continue to feel the presence of a higher power that I'm connected to in faith,» he said.

I get a little queasy at the line, «I definitely feel the presence and continue to feel the presence of a higher power that I'm connected to in faith,» he said.

This issue is an extremely common topic at meetings and it is always stressed that believe in a Higher Power can be anything of your choosing and many AAs simply believe in the power of the group as a whole as their Higher Power (I have also know many people who started with this belief and later found faith in Power can be anything of your choosing and many AAs simply believe in the power of the group as a whole as their Higher Power (I have also know many people who started with this belief and later found faith in power of the group as a whole as their Higher Power (I have also know many people who started with this belief and later found faith in Power (I have also know many people who started with this belief and later found faith in God).

But such despair, whether it be of the youth or of the man, is essentially the same, it does not reach any metamorphosis in which the consciousness of the eternal in the self breaks through, so that the battle might begin which either potentiates despair to a higher power or leads to faith.

Continuing its message to the clergy, AA concedes that: Some members of the clergy may be shocked to learn that an agnostic or an atheist may join the Fellowship, or to hear an AA [member] say: «I can't accept that «God concept»; I put my faith in the AA group; that's my higher power, and it keeps me sober.»

This being postulated, do those in high places realize the revolutionary power of so novel a concept (it would be better to use the word «doctrine») in its effect on religious Faith?

That's faith in a higher being or power, AKA religion.

I was persuaded to believe in a higher power through reasoned arguments for the existence of a higher power and through faith.

Any faith he has will no doubt be used primarily as political leverage in his main goal, higher political office and greater personal power.

When I asked Strauss if he'd appealed to faith or a higher power when coping with the accident, he said he'd never considered it: he was raised in a secular household and thought himself «too meek to shake a fist at God.»

If this «religion without revelation,» as Huxley calls it, can be said to have dogmas, the most important are its faith in the power of science to free Man from all the limitations that beset him, and the power of education to imbue him with high ideals, pure motivations, and self - discipline.

We will never know so hopefully people's «faith» in a higher power will keep people from rioting....

I can only hope, in line with the mother's professed faith, that they will have to face a higher power at some point who will bring them to justice for their folly.

The petition copied to Mr Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption reads in part: «SERAP considers these amendments to be in bad faith, patently an abuse of legislative powers, politically biased, and demonstrably unjustified in a democratic and representative society governed by the rule of law, and incompatible with the country's international human rights obligations and commitments particularly the UN Convention against Corruption, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights, which Nigeria has ratified.»

Written from a secular perspective, this book is refreshing in its respectful explanations of each religion described as it encourages us to focus on how each is intended to address and solve a different problem (e.g. overcoming sin vs attaining enlightenment), the role of faith and works in each, the existence of any higher power, God, or gods.

Faith can be placed anywhere but I don't see where it can be of much help if it's not in a higher power.

That faith may be in a «higher power» or another person.

Many faiths do believe in higher powers, or even icons (which the heart was to the soldiers) and even the CO as a higher power.

Faith is very important in difficult times, ask anyone fighting cancer, you need to have faith in the medication, the doctors, but mostly in yourself and whatever higher power, be that God, nature, prFaith is very important in difficult times, ask anyone fighting cancer, you need to have faith in the medication, the doctors, but mostly in yourself and whatever higher power, be that God, nature, prfaith in the medication, the doctors, but mostly in yourself and whatever higher power, be that God, nature, prayer.

Does faith have to be placed in a deity or higher power, or can other things provide support?

Nothing concrete then, but it's good to see that Sony still has faith in the handheld's AAA potential (it's a pretty high - powered little machine, after all).

Surely he just wished to make the point that the fervid belief in the CAGW story mimics religious beliefs throughout the ages, with cynical, self - serving high priests bent on riches, power and fame asking for «faith» and «belief»,....

One is the 12 - step approach, which uses a person's faith in God, or a «higher power,» to help recover from addiction.

Throughout the course of counseling, your counselor will work with you to clarify your belief in a higher power, strengthen your faith in God, and incorporate faith into your recovery.