Sentences with phrase «faith of a higher power»

But the basics of faith, the faith of a higher power, is born inside me and it is real.

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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.

And yet people of faith don't seem to take this as an indication that they're hearing voices, not communing with some higher power...

It still does not take away how it got there but that folks displayed the positive and peaceful side of Faith and Religion and a connect to a higher power.

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?»

Faith, as the higher dimension of reason, is a power for the future that opens for us the Transcendent Ground or Omega of evolutionary time.

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.

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

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?

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

At that instant of time when I gave all up to him to do with me as he pleased, and was willing that God should rule over me at his pleasure, redeeming love broke into my soul with repeated scriptures, with such power that my whole soul seemed to be melted down with love; the burden of guilt and condemnation was gone, darkness was expelled, my heart humbled and filled with gratitude, and my whole soul, that was a few minutes ago groaning under mountains of death, and crying to an unknown God for help, was now filled with immortal love, soaring on the wings of faith, freed from the chains of death and darkness, and crying out, My Lord and my God; thou art my rock and my fortress, my shield and my high tower, my life, my joy, my present and my everlasting portion.

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.

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.

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.

[As Micah and others have noted, those of us without access to big telescopes and high - powered microscopes accept much of this information on faith.

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.»

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.

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.

As a blue stone, it represents the forces of the highest celestial powers, hope and faith.

Spiritual direction runs the gambit of faith traditions, and helps the couple connect to a «higher power» as they work through past difficulties and work toward a brighter future.

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.