Sentences with phrase «faith in something like»

I fail to see how having faith in something like that gives life more meaning.

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It sounds like something you might read on a cat poster, but another uniting feature of Musk, Tesla, Jobs, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein and other innovators is an intense faith in their own ability to overcome obstacles.

«If, like so many of us, you've bought the line that Canada's financial industry is safe and sound and worthy of your respect,» he writes in his introduction to readers, «prepare to be robbed of something yourself: your faith.»

I've been made to feel like there must be some reason why God wouldn't bless me with children, or that I just don't have enough faith, even that there must be some generational influence, «curse», or something that happened in my childhood to cause it!

Here is something to consider... According to your faith, God made us in his image, so he must like our form... he watches over us too.

For me, faith is just like the dictionary says: «complete trust or confidence in someone or something».

The similarity ends with the way of phrasing it however, because I «believe» in evidence, not in something like «faith» (or «brainwashing» I would say) for which there is no evidence, and in fact there is MUCH EVIDENCE to conclude «faith» is a form of mental illness.

Yet there is something like faith in his fascination with the Gnostic picture of things as they are, always have been, and always will be.

In Christian circles, people talk about «The Faith» as if it is something very much outside of you - like somehow, belief just descends on you and it resides in your heart like an immovable stonIn Christian circles, people talk about «The Faith» as if it is something very much outside of you - like somehow, belief just descends on you and it resides in your heart like an immovable stonin your heart like an immovable stone.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loin my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loin a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loin many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loIN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

«There are a lot of people of faith still in our country and when somebody takes a step of faith like Mark and [co-executive producer Roma Downey] did, people want to get behind it and see good quality, you know, production of something that's... dear to all of our hearts, and that is the scripture and the bible,» said Osteen.

I don't like how some atheists ridicule believers, because they have faith in something or someone that can't be proven — that's what faith is all about, and I know that.

«Intentionally appropriating part of the pagan calendar in order to weaken competing faiths» hardly seems like something you could describe as a «blunder.»

In short, the central theme of faith in Romans is removed from its powerful role as the essential human response to God, one with profound anthropological implications, and reduced to something far more formal (like commitment to Christian beliefIn short, the central theme of faith in Romans is removed from its powerful role as the essential human response to God, one with profound anthropological implications, and reduced to something far more formal (like commitment to Christian beliefin Romans is removed from its powerful role as the essential human response to God, one with profound anthropological implications, and reduced to something far more formal (like commitment to Christian belief).

And to have something like the Mishnah to order our faith in every detail.

The word which got translated into Latin as «credo» did not really mean «I believe this as actual fact» but something more like «I put my faith in, or I commit myself to, or I follow the teaching of...».

because of his relationship with something, not someone, who's invisible and has all these stories told of him, by other people, and we all know people lie..., i'd just like to say this whole finding «faith» in a religious god, is horrible for society....

This week as I sang in a coffee house attended mostly by street folk, I ran into a man who had been severely handicapped (something like cerebral palsy) and who upon coming to faith was transformed to the point where he can hold a full - time job and have a normal social life.

Much like how you like to bash on people of faith for believing in something that may or may not exist, you have to remember that you believe in things that have yet to be proven, but toss them out as if they are hard facts just to counter what you dislike.

seems to me like those who research religions in - depth are usually those who are searching for facts, or faith, or something that feels right.

You do not understand everything the Christian church teaches, you say, and some things that you think you do understand you do not believe, but you at least see enough in the kind of faith and life for which Christianity stands so that you would like to do something about it.

That said, there really isn't anything wrong with being civil and perhaps even starting a response with something like «Glad that you managed to turn your life around, but if you are implying that only a faith in God could have accomplished this then I must disagree with you.»

In its own way an interview on faith history is something like the history a family physician takes of a new patient.

Thus when I observe a meticulous and highly sensitive scholar like Bultmann proceeding with his method of demythologizing to interpret Christian faith exhaustively and without remainder as man's original possibility of authentic historical existence, and then making, as it were, a sharp turn from this procedure in his appeal to the saving event of Jesus Christ, by way of preserving the Kerygma, something demonic in me leaps up with glee, and I want to shout far joy.

Neville i was thinking there have been men that i respected in politics like Nelson Mandala Abraham Lincoln Teddy Rosevelt Winston Churchill so there are exceptions all these people and many more struggled and overcame there own personal demons that is why they were great leaders statesman.That always involves faith believing in something greater than yourself and humility knowing that its not possible in us alone but with God all things are possible.brentnz

The Church for him is something like the uniformed units in God's array, the point at which the inner character of man's divinized life is manifested in tangible historical and sociological form or, rather, in which it is most clearly manifested because, to the enlightened gaze of faith, grace does not entirely lack visible embodiment even outside the Church.

I am a believer in God, and it embarrasses me to see people who claim to have faith do something like this, for Christians already have a bad rep. I have many friends with different beliefs and I don't go trying to shove mine down their throat - what matters is a person's character, and I know wonderful people who are atheists.

Faith is something you must have for an instance such as Jesus showing up and dying for sins, because everyone there at the time, is dead, and only words describing what happened are left, words that match hidden prophecy given to those that don't believe the one dying (the Jews don't believe Jesus)... which is self proving in a hidden manner... like finding gold where someone says it will be, near another person that says it's absolutely not there.

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

Be very mindful how you pin a name on your brother sister; remember the church is there the burden and those who have sinned yet we become so eager to judge; the word has already judged him, God at this very moment is dealing with him in ways that no man can as we judge him, we have judged ourself, we can easily forgive when his sin is like ours, but when it is not; they killed CHRIST CAUSE HE SAID HE COULD RISE THE TEMPLE IN THREE DAYS; to the people of that day and time it was a lie; as we forgive him we are forgive ourselves for believing in man and not the word; the word is still true, and God can still use him; but we must believe and fellow the word God no matter what; God has a way of making something good out of what is bad; that where the hope comes in; the faith in blessed redemption; heal our nation lord; heal our minds love forgive alin ways that no man can as we judge him, we have judged ourself, we can easily forgive when his sin is like ours, but when it is not; they killed CHRIST CAUSE HE SAID HE COULD RISE THE TEMPLE IN THREE DAYS; to the people of that day and time it was a lie; as we forgive him we are forgive ourselves for believing in man and not the word; the word is still true, and God can still use him; but we must believe and fellow the word God no matter what; God has a way of making something good out of what is bad; that where the hope comes in; the faith in blessed redemption; heal our nation lord; heal our minds love forgive alIN THREE DAYS; to the people of that day and time it was a lie; as we forgive him we are forgive ourselves for believing in man and not the word; the word is still true, and God can still use him; but we must believe and fellow the word God no matter what; God has a way of making something good out of what is bad; that where the hope comes in; the faith in blessed redemption; heal our nation lord; heal our minds love forgive alin man and not the word; the word is still true, and God can still use him; but we must believe and fellow the word God no matter what; God has a way of making something good out of what is bad; that where the hope comes in; the faith in blessed redemption; heal our nation lord; heal our minds love forgive alin; the faith in blessed redemption; heal our nation lord; heal our minds love forgive alin blessed redemption; heal our nation lord; heal our minds love forgive all;

Even before you can label a concept as «true», you must first accept it as true, otherwise it remains something you think might be true but you're not sure — A perfect realm for faith if you're not interested in something concrete like evidence.

Extra special religious like this, Mormonism, Jehova witness, Scientology, and the like are either using their «faith» to get what they personally want and have no real belief or they are both thoroughly brainwashed by the growing up with it and thoroughly stupid for believing in something so ludicrous.

So the real way Burke succumbed to «historicism» — or something like it — was in attributing too much significance to a particular political event, and so in having too little confidence in (or at least faith in) in the resilience of human nature.

Grace like Faith is something we all expect to receive from Church but the reality is that all Churches vary as they have frail human beings in them.

That there is a constitutive relation of asymmetrical dependence of the evaluative features of specifically human experience on its valuational features such that something like what Ogden calls «existential faith» is invariably involved in human existence is a conceptual observation (TPT 71f).

Faith is the world's worst way of making decisions, which is why it's the only one religions have to rely on, because if you used any of the more reliable methods (like looking at the evidence, or logic, or confidence in something based on its past track record), you'd laff your head off at such nonsense and even more so at the solemn, self - righteous credulity of its proponents.

Many people who refer to themselves as «Spiritual but Not Religious» may in fact be committed Christians who, like the young man in my friend's congregation, wish to signal something about the unmediated quality of their faith.

Neville you are quite right it is a process of growing i do nt believe Jeremy is saying we should sit there like a lump of clay and do nothing.But rather than doing something thinking that that will add to the work of Christ is pointless.We are expected to walk by faith but alot of what is expected from the church or others are dead works and are done because the church expects us to do them.The way around this is to say no just do what the Lord wants you to and please him put him first.That way you are still walking by faith and growing in Christ rather than wasting time just trying to keep something going that needs to die so that Christ can be elevated to the highest position.brentnz

It may not amount to a metaphysics in the fullest sense, since strictly speaking it possesses no rational content — it is, after all, a belief that all things rest upon something like an original moment of magic — but it is certainly far more than the mere absence of faith.

For the moment, at least, many groups hear something they like in the promise of faith - based reforms, but for very different reasons.

I also was powerless in regard to my old nature it had power over me.i came to the point that i needed to do something because i felt like spiritually i was dying and again it was by faith in Jesus Christ that changed me and that i admitted that i could nt live the christian life in my strength.Since then i have continued to walk by faith daily and i know what it means to be saved in this life we have power over our old nature through Christ that strengths us Personally i think this is a major reason why many christians are not growing and maturing as they should.Many people are struggling in there faith that is not how it is meant to be the word says we are overcomers more than conquerers through Christ that strengthens us.If you are struggling are you walking by faith or just doing good christians works that have no power to change your life Just admit that you cant do it in your strength let him empower you by his holy spirit to do what you cant.It has been a hard road to get here but i am never going back to living by works when you find the truth there is no comparison brentnz

how does fair, unbiased CNN, AKA ACNN (Anderson Cooper News Network) pick and choose stories as noteworthy... a comment is made by a very elderly priest, probably not quoted properly, and is «front page news» on CNN's website... this same man (priest) has written many great books, done a lot of great charity work in the poorer parts of New York and nothing is ever posted on the website... but something is said incorrectly and its published... is this fair, is it right, is it unbiased or is the motivation to make an entire Church lokk bad and let the anti-Catholic screwballs have their heyday in hateful posts... I didn't see this wonderful netwrok post anything about the disgusting, bigoted and hateful attacks, written by the liberal left wing media elites, like Maureen Dowd, against Rep. Paul Ryan and his Catholic faith... it's all acceptable to you liberal HYPOCRITES!

The metaphor is the primordial closer of rifts; its dramatic promise is that unexpected and significant connections will continue to be possible, and its implied threat is that when we can no longer believe in that promise we will have to use another metaphor to express our loss of faith: something like Macbeth's «tale told by an idiot.»

If you believe A, then you'll believe B. Or, more practically in this regard, if you believe A, then you'll believe H (something way down the line that is essential to the Christian faith, like Christ's resurrection).

If you have the chance to believe and have faith in god and go to heaven and have a good life, i do nt mean something like just sitting on a cloud playing a harp but doing some really exciting things like going to other worlds and meeting people who have loved god all their lives and also having a really nice palace to live in and really good food to eat and having a lot of friends how cool is that?

She is arguing that even on his own terms, there should be something from him — some scrap of grace — for someone like her who comes to him in faith.

it is a shame that many plp think so little of our faith... they do no understand what is like to be a true christian... and no not one of those plp who say im a christian and go to church from sunday to sunday, not one of the fanatics who advocate hate, not a bigot who proclaim god's name without understanding... this life is a journey to find something greater than spiritual awareness... it is a journey to see the world the way god does, it is a journey beyond any book, any view... that is why i belive in my faith... im a christian and i love my god but im not the one who follows faith blindly and question every thing

Are faith transitions merely a rite of passage for 18 - 30 year - olds or is there something larger going on in the broader culture, something like what Phyllis Tickle describes in the Great Emergence as postmoderns picking and choosing the best elements from each faith tradition and trying to weld those elements into one?

Why is it that you can call me all kinds of names, spit on my faith, hate me for my beliefs, but if someone called a person of color, a Gay man or a lesbian something just as bad, or worse yet, not even as bad, they would be thrown in prison and Crucified, just like my Lord was?

And then Fr Luther was heard to be saying something that looked, superficially, like a complete contradiction of his usual theme — he wanted concrete evidence of their faith: «Dear friends, the kingdom of God — and we are that kingdom — does not consist in talk or words but in activity, in deeds, in works and exercises... a faith without love is not enough rather it is no faith at all.