Sentences with phrase «faith than the way»

To me, there is no better indication of the «goodness» of a person's faith than the way in which they interact with others.

Not exact matches

-- Outside of this faith - based position, Larry is not immune to data, knows his way around budget tables, and more than most, thinks about the interaction between financial markets and the real economy.

This is why any willingness to accept risk will far more tied to our longstanding measures of market action and other testable factors than to some novel «Bernanke faith factor» that we have no way of testing historically in any kind of rigorous manner.

Bob... not very long from now if things keep going the way they are, you will have a lot more to worry about than anyone of any faith....

Religion and faith are a personal choice and journey as is the lack of either; I raised my son and daughter much in the same ways I was raised and I am proud of their understanding and acceptance of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, that they do not look down on or speak ill of others who believe differently than they.

One of the ways in which having faith affects us is that we (hopefully) become more values - led, our awareness opened to wider issues, rather than just living in a personal bubble.

Second there are plenty of people who come to their faith as it were through something more than bible verses its called critical thinking people can critically think their way to the idea that they are rather small beings in a relatively huge universe and that they realize that they can't know everything and leave some things including the nature of the universe to faith and acknowledge it as faith if that's how they see the world fine is there anything particularly wrong with that?

Yes, I whole heartedly dissagree with even the existence of the Catholic Church (though they are good for a laugh), something my Catholic wife and I have frequent conversations about (interestingly enough, I know WAY more about the tennets of her faith than she does).

Though I personally prefer «faith» bc my spiritual self has been fed by a Love greater than my own... and indeed, faith freed me from religion in a way that spirituality hadn't.

If it changes your faith... then either you are looking at it in a different way than I do, or you place too much stock in who gets into heaven and who goes to hell.

The history of modernity in the West is in many ways nothing more than the effort to destroy medieval faith.

Why, there's thousands of different «denominations» even within the major faiths, and no faith has any way to prove that their reasoning is better than that of any other faith.

This has resulted in a way of understanding Christian faith that maximizes the «forensic» rather than the actual impact of grace and tends to contrast faith and reason, faith and works, and so on.

Both of these are way better methods of arriving at conclusions than faith.

I don't know how to raise them in the faith in any other way than this: God is good, God is Love, God is for you, never against you, and when you want to dance, darling, wave your flag and spin, let the wind of the Spirit move through you.

Your pet evangelical gate - keeper isn't the sole arbitrator of the Christian faith: there is more complexity and beauty and diversity of voices and experiences within followers of the Way than you know.

It is written that God would rather have lost one of His sheep and found it again, then to never have lost Him at all, Meaning It is very easy in this world now more than ever to lose sight of God and your faith, we all sin even the most devote christian, But coming back to our faith and our christian ways after losing it is something that brings God joy..

It wasn't the summer that brought an end to my doubt, but it was the summer I encountered a different Jesus, a Jesus who requires more from me than intellectual assent and emotional allegiance; a Jesus who associated with sinners and infuriated the religious; a Jesus who broke the rules and refused to cast the first stone; a Jesus who gravitated toward sick people and crazy people, homeless people and hopeless people; a Jesus who preferred story to exposition and metaphor to syllogism; a Jesus who answered questions with more questions, and demands for proof with demands for faith... a Jesus who healed each person differently and saved each person differently; a Jesus who had no list of beliefs to check off, no doctrinal statements to sign, no surefire way to tell who was «in» and who was «out»; a Jesus who loved after being betrayed, healed after being hurt, and forgave while being nailed to a tree; a Jesus who asked his disciples to do the same...

There is no other way for your faith to grow than for your faith to be tested.

Unless we learn to challenge our own beliefs the way we challenge others», whatever they may be can be no more than a blind faith at best or a delusion at worst, be that for or against religion (especially the puerile version of Christianity).

Having absolute faith is frowned upon and I think I've heard Jesus mentioned in a loving way less than 10 times in ten years.

For Christianity, although it is a religion in the sense that it links the life of man with the Life of God, is far more than one of the world's great faiths: it is the revelation of the way of true living.

But whereas Justin was eventually able to reconcile his sexuality with his faith and with Scripture in such a way that has left open the possibility for a relationship with a man in his future, Wesley says that «my own story, by contrast, is a story of feeling spiritually hindered rather than helped by my homosexuality.

It is a way never formally considered by the Christian faith, and its ultimate acceptance or rejection will be determined only by whether it can persuade Christians that it is a more suitable explanation of what they believe about God than the traditional explanations.

I think I just may have more faith in «God» and «Jesus» than you do, from the way you are posting.

The fact that interest in God's idiosyncratic reality and peculiar ways of being present are situated means, in short, that the conceptual growth they guide is always open to the suspicion of being in bad faith, of being more of an interest in using God for our own purposes than an interest in apprehending God for the sake of apprehending God.

We also become more likely to misinterpret an honest challenge to our faith as an «attack,» and react in a way that is less than winsome.»

After a few years of wilderness wandering (you should expect that, by the way — look for the manna; look for the water from rock), I found myself in the Episcopal Church, which is no less riddled with conflict and shortcomings than any other Christian tradition, but which introduced me to the sacraments that have managed to sustain my ever - complicated, ever - faltering faith.

However, and quite surprisingly I should add, you might be interested to know the effect your words have upon a believer in God of forty years, and by the way I wish to thank you for your words in this province, that when I read such terse thoughts they have the distinct effect of deepening, in an extraordinary way, my faith and cause me to love and worship God even more than ever.

«In a strange way the present passage speaks more about God's faith in Abraham than Abraham's faith in God.»

Throughout, Weinandy imaginatively engages the Christian tradition in a way that respects the truths of faith as a «mystery» to be explored rather than as «problems» to be solved, thus giving to his entire work the character of intelligently believing humility.

He who seeks refuge in an infallible church or in an infallible Bible is less acquainted with the way of faith, than the person who knows neither of these, but who nevertheless obeys the word of God in the midst of his own uncertainty.

The sacrament stimulates a value response to an object other than itself — in this sense being a kind of instrumental value — by virtue of a three - way congruence of some sort involving person, sacrament, an ultimate faith - object.

From Karl: Who do you feel you have more in common with, religiously - Christians who take a progressive / liberal theological approach to their faith similar to the way you approach Judaism, or Jews (conservative or Orthodox) who take a significantly more literal / conservative approach to the Jewish faith than you do?

The best way to protect America is to warmly welcome law abiding citizens of any faith, such a rare and wonderful thing about us, something we can hold up as unique and special, something that does nt provoke but binds loyalty.Being different, more accepting and loving than the ugliness found in anti-Christian cultures, is our greatest strength.

Apple, and yet here you are, slightly damaged, slightly bitter, yet tougher than before, like most of us, effected by life and people who abused our trust and crushed our faith, we find our way through and heal.

And that means you are someone who is easily swayed to believe something... way more than any other religious person who at least require a basis for their faith.

In these instances, the images are more than pictures; they are ways of mediating to us a faith or a set of values.

It may be increasingly necessary, however, to allow the concrete situation, rather than the biblical revelation, to propose the «doctrinal» loci or the organizing forms in terms of which biblical faith needs to speak, because the secularism of our time has so transformed the way people think that Christian faith is now in a cross-cultural situation.

There is nothing those of faith and religion want more than eternal bliss, and as we all know, the easiest way to get their is to stay eternally ignorant...

There are a thousand ways in which we try in today's language to affirm this faith, but perhaps none is more forceful or rings truer than the words of Maltbie D. Babcock's familiar hymn:

After setting forth what Missouri understands to be the Lutheran teaching of justification by «faith alone,» the ad depicts Catholic teaching in this way: «The Roman Catholic Church teaches that something more than trust in Christ is necessary for us to be saved.

«C.S. Lewis when speaking about why prayers are not always answered the way we want them to be said that in his experience it was often the new Christian's prayers that were answered rather than those with a mature faith.

Certainly there are more than what is treated here, but I've compiled a few ways Bonhoeffer continues to help us think through the faith:

Obama's so - called Christian faith is nothing more than a box he checked off on his way to public office.

This theoretical attitude, which comes so naturally to modern scientific humankind, is likely to be far more destructive to Christianity than any attack that the atheists might launch, because it can cut the very heart out of the Christian life — and in such a way that the individual does not at all think of himself or herself as having given up the faith.

Today's world man has become with no value other than his organs if sold or stolen... so what is happening only proves that we are imposing marketing the wrongs against the rights... cultures and beliefs are going down the drain with all those values, morals, virtues some how turning into commotion among cultures and beliefs turning against each other misunderstanding each other or unaware of cultures way of living and beliefs to ease communication mutual understanding as a nation of mankind and a nation of faiths.

In other words, the choice which Life requires of our considered action is a great deal less complex than at first seemed to be the case; for it is reduced to a simple choice between the first and last stages of the successive alternatives which we have been able to define: the rejection of Being, which returns us to dust, or the acceptance of Being, which leads us, by way of socialization, to faith in a Supreme Unity — opposite directions along a single road.

Kierkegaard showed that faith is a far more profound reality than looking at Christ's way aesthetically, or even morally.

it is for freedom of thought and conscience for all people... those of faith and non-faith, or of God or godless people... The Commission would stand up for all people... so that one person does not kill another person because they think some other way than you think or I think.