Sentences with phrase «faithful person with»

Me: I would have to say that i am an honest and faithful person with a great heart.

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Develop relationships with the people on the ground; who knows the friends and professional partnerships you make now may just become long serving and faithful customers in the future!
Research that I have done over the past decade suggests that a chemical messenger called oxytocin accounts for why some people give freely of themselves and others are coldhearted louts, why some people cheat and steal and others you can trust with your life, why some husbands are more faithful than others, and why women tend to be nicer and more generous than men.
America is not inherently Christian, nor is Christianity inherently American — it might surprise many people, but there are faithful Christians around the world and across the centuries who had nothing to do with our modern style of Christmas celebration.
You hit the nail squarely on the head for indeed so, biblical truths are «written on our heart» by way of the Presence of Christ's Indwelt Spirit Who is ever faithful to «guide you into all truth» and «show (us) things to come» (John 16:13) but the problem is (as is woefully evident with this Article \ s Author), too many people (believers) choose to eschew or disregard «sound doctrine» (2 Timothy 4:3) promulgating John 14:17 ignorance of the Doctrine of The Holy Spirit whose inevitable product is a darkened understanding (such as is evidenced by the Article's Author --RRB-.
I'm the wrong person to represent the faithful, but I have a feeling they would disagree with your definition of faith.
So that the delusional people in each parish can find a sense of relief when the CC comes a runnin» with an exorcist to cast out their self - created demons??? Having an exorcist in each parish will just help to add more delusion to the faithful (which would of course benefit the CC as a whole as a means of psychologically wrestling their believers further under their proverbial thumb).
(n. 29) «Therefore, the priest's life ought to radiate this spousal character which demands that he be a witness to Christ's spousal love, and thus be capable of loving people with a heart which is new, generous and pure, with genuine self - detachment, with full, constant and faithful dedication and at the same time with a kind of «divine jealousy» (cf. 2 Cor 11:2)-- and even with a kind of maternal tenderness, capable of bearing the «pangs of birth» until «Christ be formed» in thefaithful (cf. Gal 4:19).
It turned out to be essentially a continuation of what had already been revealed — a plea for prayer and penance, but with an added series of images: a ruined city, a rugged Cross, a Pope shot at with arrows, bishops, clergy and faithful people martyred.
be a witness to Christ's spousal love, and thus be capable of loving people with a heart which is new, generous and pure, with genuine self - detachment, with full, constant and faithful dedication and at the same time with a kind of «divine jealousy» (cf. 2 Cor 11:2)-- and even with a kind of maternal tenderness, capable of bearing the «pangs of birth» until «Christ be formed» in the faithful (cf. Gal 4:19).
On the one hand I want to be faithful to all the good teaching I've had about listening, about empathy, and about the «unconditional positive regard» with which I am to receive the person seeking counsel.
Instead of simply stating the law and reacting in panic when it is widely broken, those concerned for traditional moral wisdom would do much better to affirm the high possibility of the life of faithful love, and to understand with love what is happening to people in ghettoes, in college campuses, in the life of the family today.
A communal spirit blooms where people are deeply in touch with one another, thriving because of the faithful interaction with one another.
The vision of millions of the faithful thrilled to bits with vernacular Mass facing the people smacks of wishful thinking in the face of widespread liturgical deformation and the continuous decline in Mass attendance.
And why should I, as a faithful lay member of the Church, have to disagree with the Church as represented by its shepherds when I make judgments of fact and feasibility, judgments on which people of goodwill may disagree?
A faithful person finds himself in a situation where some part of his thick faith seems to conflict with other evidence.
We need to say that it is possible for an individual to have faithful reasons for hanging on to substantial wealth: if, for instance, that person uses ownership in a business to pursue policies with important benefits to society, or is able to provide jobs for people that no one else would hire, or is able because of keeping their wealth to accomplish some unique and valuable good that at least equals the good that could be realized if this wealth were wisely given away.
But those faithful persons who have left us with the Genesis stories traveled on a completely different road.
R. R. Reno has written eloquently: «By clarifying what God has done in the person of Mary, the Church raises our eyes toward the highest goals, teaching the faithful that human flesh is capable of remarkable feats of holiness — even to the point of sinless perfection and fellowship with God in our flesh.»
Some Christians believe that the Holy Spirit is leading his Church into a truth which we have not been able to take in until now — that the Church's teaching that sex is for a committed, faithful, lifelong, exclusive relationship with one other person, should be widened to include gay people.
I think most of us are familiar with the concept of praying for other people, and so I will not belabor the point, other than to say that the primary prayer requests of Jesus for others is that they would remain faithful to God, and in unity with one another.
Once we know, with Luther, what we can not and do not know — for example: God directly; or anything that contributes to our own justification or salvation — then what must we know to live our lives as faithful people?
According to the knowledge, competence, and prestige which they [the laity] possess, they have the right and even at times the duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church and to make their opinion known to the rest of the Christian faithful, without prejudice to the integrity of faith and morals, with reverence toward their pastors, and attentive to common advantage and the dignity of persons.
He is also fond of stereotyped expressions such as «a great voice» (twenty times), «the kings of the earth» (ten times), the Lord God, the Almighty» (nine times), the adjective «true» («alethinos») with «faithful», «holy», or «righteous» (nine times), «tribe and language and people and nation» (six times; cf. Dan.
«A better, wiser person than me may have been able to deal with this more successfully, to have remained faithful to Christ while leading a political party in the current environment.
The improvement of moral character individually and collectively requires each person to be treated with and to treat others with dignity and to have enough to be able to become functioning members of the communion of the faithful.
With this in mind, preachers of the «good news» needs always to remember that in their proclamation of that which in Christ God has «determined, dared, and done» (in Christopher Smart's compelling words) they are speaking not just for the contemporary Church but for the whole body of faithful people.
«Together with the Synod, I earnestly call upon pastors and the whole community of the faithful to help the divorced, and with solicitous care to make sure that they do not consider themselves as separated from the Church, for as baptized persons they can, and indeed must, share in her life.
A There are people in media with faith, but I do think there's a big gap in worldview between left and right, faithful and unfaithful.
Thus all those who compose the one People of God, both pastors and the general faithful, can engage in dialogue with ever - abounding fruitfulness.
The use of your religious criteria is the central problem with all organized religions, ESPECIALLY evangelical fundamentalist — either Christian, Muslim, or Scientology (all banes to any society)-- where some allegedly «religiously educated and therefore holy» person gets to command the suggestible faithful, usually to the direct benefit of the alleged «religiously educated» person.
When in 169 one of the contestants, Menelaus, was returned to the office, Antiochus, who had already incurred the bitter resentment of faithful Jews by his interference, sought to correct his financial plight by entering the Temple himself and stripping it of its considerable movable wealth.31 Antiochus became at once the object of Judaism's bitterest hate; and no doubt in part in retaliation but also as an expression of this ardent Hellenist's frustration with a people slow to change, he effected an otherwise quite unprovoked attack on Jerusalem in 168.
But the main stress in the sacrament is found not so much in that kind of talk (which may be appropriate enough for an adult) but in the simple words with which the minister of baptism signs the baptized person with the sign of the cross as he or she is «received into the congregation of Christ's flock»: that «hereafter he [or she] shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner, against sin, the world, and the devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto his [her] life's end.»
We may interpret the biblical record as God seeking to further this aim first with all mankind, then with his chosen people Israel, then with the faithful remnant, finally with that individual person willing to embody in his own life the meaning, hopes, and mission God has entrusted to Israel.
As I read Rabbi Shaul's / Paul's instructions, in the letter to the church in Rome, about how to live out life, I see him encouraging believers to provoke others, especially the Jewish people we encounter, to envy — to live a life that challenges them to desire a closer walk with the Lord, to live a life of more faithful obedience to His Word.
The Jewish people, more faithful than any similar group in the keeping of the moral laws they share with the Christians, more assiduous in the practice of repentance, more diligent in forgiveness, have indeed survived to this day and so demonstrated in a fashion the social relevance of their faith; but it would be difficult to describe the sort of existence the Jewish race has enjoyed as «fullness of life.»
Preachers who understand that the Word seeks dialogue with the body of the faithful, even in the preparation and delivery of the sermon, will so restructure their sermon preparation regimen and alter their rhetorical strategies that they make room for the whole people of God in the pulpit.
Landry serves as catalyst for an interface of his people with the people who sat by the waters of Babylon and wept, or with the band of faithful who were shipwrecked, stoned, and imprisoned on behalf of the gospel.
Those who have been directly impacted by the silence and even malice of the Church have asked the faithful to engage in dialogue with First Nations peoples and to repudiate colonial attitudes and concepts.
But we shall not engage persons in the prophetic and political tasks before us until we engage the power of death with all the resources of faithful community.
Inasmuch as the entire people of God partakes in the search for and the unfolding of the truth of God's word, all the charisms and services are involved according to their station: the theologians by means of their research activities, the faithful by means of their preserving fidelity and piety, the ecclesial ministries and especially the college of bishops with its function of making binding doctrinal decisions.
If you are at all interested in learning more about how and why people who love Jesus — why long time faithful disciples who have a high view of Scripture with a deeply Christian ethic around sexuality — are arriving at this conclusion, I would commend to you a season of bible study and theological reading and prayer in company with the Holy Spirit and the body of Christ.
They are a testimony to God's leading and care and his demand for righteousness, and to Israel's sense of being a divinely chosen people with a great destiny if they would be faithful.
Christian people will not tamp down our faithful hope: We will, instead, declare it with our lives.
Also, I am to support Israel no matter what they do — even if they pervert justice, I am supposed to ignore that and just accept it because, well, you know — they are God's chosen people and if I mess with them, God will strike even me — his chosen and faithful servant.
Especially in Jesus» time, under foreign rule, most of the rich people compromised with the pagan rulers and became worldly and irreligious, while the poor more often remained faithful.
All theistic religions have concepts of gods which directly seek out their faithful, pursue relationships with the people they are believed to have created, and take direct, proactive interest in the lives and fortunes of their people.
Sometimes it is a faithful union with a person of the same sex.
Most of the people I meet as I travel around the country are people who grew up in Church and who long, with every ounce of their being, to remain faithful to the Church and to Scripture as they work through these difficult issues.
I am so grateful — for all these opportunities, of course, but mostly for the kindness of other people: the reader who shoved a $ 50 Starbucks card into my pocket at a signing; the flight attendant who gently patted my arm; Dad's idea to make my favorite comfort food for dinner and Mom's faithful execution of pork loin, rice, and fried apples; Marvin and Brandon at Belk; Dan's shoulder; a call from my sister; readers who pile into minvans and drive many miles just to talk, friends who understood why, with all this good publicity, I would just need a good, long cry.
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