Sentences with phrase «from faith»

Far from being a withdrawal from faith, the highly empiric position of Wiltshire Church in fact represents a familiar way by which human society everywhere has attempted to wrest meaning from the chaos of life.

The reality is that many normal Christians walk away from their faith for periods of time, for whatever reason.

The religious system of revivalism, he argued, is different from the faith of the Presbyterian, Reformed, and Lutheran Churches.

The details change from faith to faith, but this seems to be a common denominator among most religions.

(For Aquinas, it is inconceivable that there are two truths, one learned from the things that are, the other learned from faith.

They will only emerge from a faith as intense as that which once drove François Laval and Marie de l'Incarnation from the comforts of Europe to a then - bleak rock overlooking the St. Lawrence River.

Especially where hurt, shame, doubt, or lack of support is involved, it's easy to walk or run away from the faith - based life.

---------------------------- 1But The Spirit speaks plainly that in the last time they shall depart one by one from the faith and they shall go after deceiving spirits and after the teachings of demons, 2These persons who deceive by false appearances and speak lies and sear their consciences; 3And they forbid to be married and they abstain from foods which God has created for use and thanksgiving for those who believe and know the truth.

Since their commitments are not in fact based on faith seeking understanding, the understanding that emerges from faith is of little interest to them.

I'm sorry fred, and please know that I'm not trying to turn you from your faith, I'm just saying that these things make absolutely no sense.

Now faith has precisely the required character; for in the certainty of belief (Tro is translated here and in the following three pages as belief or «faith... in a direct and ordinary sense,» as distinguished from Faith «in an eminent sense.»

I turned away from faith at a young age.

I don't believe there is any shame / guilt / hypocrisy in taking from your faith those parts which sustain you and leaving the rest.

Sometimes I wonder if it would be easier (or maybe I mean, simpler, or CLEARER) to just navigate a total walking away from faith, instead of a very specific changing of faith and remaining in faith, but having a very, very significant shift in what you believe and how you live it out, because family and friends will carry on like nothing's changed, but EVERYTHING has changed, even within faith.

Bad things are already happening to many of you, for that is why you are here to try to turn people away from their faith.

Behold from faith thus flow forth love and joy in the Lord, and from love a joyful, willing, and free mind that serves one's neighbour and takes no account of gratitude or ingratitude, or praise or blame, of gain or loss...

And of course all atheist and free - thinker organizations were banned in 1933, right when Hitler came into power, and secular schools were closed, with Hitler saying: «Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction... all character training and religion must be derived from faith.»

As for wal - mart, since sam walton died they have moved away from the faith base.

All of the «good things» about faith do not come from faith at all.

I don't have plans of walking away from faith, but I will say that it is an interesting journey to walk through a change of faith but still holding to something within a traditional framework (generally) and yet all the rooms have been rearranged and renovated inside, yet everyone thinks it's still the same house.

Just as, in general, good works are distinct from faith and not to be identified with it, and yet are also demanded by faith and not to be separated from it, so justice in its political meaning as right structures of society and culture is both distinct from faith and demanded by it, and hence neither identifiable with faith nor separable from it.

My sense of movement from faith to unfaith was never at all decisive or clear, and rye never had any difficulty in continuing myself as a Christian whatever other people have said.

Now the operation of Faith comes with the Will of God to have Christ formed in us: The Faith of Christ will do (bring in His works) for that to be a reality in our own lives as we are fed the truth through the words of Jesus and Paul (Jesus said the words that I speak are Spirit and Life) Paul said; I am of Christ, therefore; as we heed to all that is written by Jesus and Paul to have that excellent work done in us, to even take us from Faith to Faith (in His greater works) and from Glory to Glory (up in His life as we mature); then we too can come to the place where even as Paul says: I am Crucified with Christ, yet; I live, yet; not I, but Christ lives in me, and the life I live now, I live by the FAITH of the Son of God who gave His life for me: Paul ministers only in and by the Christ that he has become as Christ was formed in Him: Even as it was with Peter with Israel, when thouest is converted, convert thine brethren; it is also with Paul; I Labour again in birth with you until Christ be formed in you:

I have met many good people from each faith — and I find it hard to knock a person for their sincere committment to faith.

* Tro is translated here and in the following three pages as belief or «faith... in a direct and ordinary sense,» as distinguished from Faith «in an eminent sense.»

So appreciate a scientific backing from the faith community!

The religion's most fanatical followers blow themselves up to kill others that they believe are infidels... they kill people who convert away from their faith... they cover their women head to toe...

This is where many have not the whole counsel of God and they remain in Grace apart from the Faith of Christ: Grace apart from the Faith of Christ a one can not advance in the workmanship of God through His Holy Spirit that is given to us to bring the Word of God to pass within us; thus leaving a one wallowing in grace until the Lord comes to save them:

Like Mr. Camping, I'll pick and choose what scripture I accept (from any faith) and reject the rest.

Hence it is not only possible but necessary that we affirm «that authentic existence can be realized apart from faith in Jesus Christ or in the Christian proclamation» (CWM 144).

Finally, Israel's No does not make it a witness in history to God's judgment, so that it now exists merely as a warning to the community of Christ not to fall away from faith.

«A lot of Christians have the notion that morals come from faith,» Bell says.

Paul makes explicit what is always centrally implicit in Isaiah: «Whatever does not proceed from faith is sin» (Rom.

and even if they turned from faith, they don't want bible - bashing folks.

We need to draw strength from the faith and courage of one another.

Thus we have been pretty well emancipated from the dogma of automatic progress and even from faith in the goodness of man.

Consequently a circulation is set up among all the forms of demythologization — demythologization as work of science, as work of philosophy, and as proceeding from faith.

Listening to God becomes living with God, and leads from faith to love, to the discovery of the other.

1 Timothy 4:1 ESV Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons.

This business of allowing any church from any faith to continue doing thier work and working and following the «canon law» has got to stop.

Also like Yancey, he later drifted away from his faith, and to complete a hat - trick of parallels, he has also now rediscovered it.

, it is said in the Surah of the Mensa, «if any from among you turn back from his Faith, soon will Allah produce a people whom he will love, as they will love him.»

A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man is perhaps the great account of falling away from faith.

«I don't see how a person can separate their public life from their private life or from their faith,» said Ryan.

[the Catholic historian Christopher Dawson argued that] both the Protestant north, with its austere religion of individual and interior faith, and a Catholic France, which had resisted the Counter-Reformation, were the seedbeds of modern secularity through their detaching of reason from both faith and imagination, thus liberating it for purely instrumental purposes... His was not a sentimental medievalism....

The pastor who feels it is his bounden duty to act as a spiritual mentor to an alcoholic who comes to him could perhaps succeed if he could recall out of his own experience some time of deep crisis or personal suffering in which he found comfort from his faith, and could tell that story simply and directly.

If you take a look around the world, you will see that some of the most impressive architecture in buildings comes from faith - inspired people.

It stems from Faith in the triune God, a faith which is being granted to the other who equally claims to draw on it, as «right intention of faith» and reckons with the possibility that «the Spirit speaks within and through the others».66 Its first form of expression is the doxology and the direction towards the living, triune God, the basis of faith and theology.

Questions of faith and order, however, while they can be distinguished from questions of faith and life, can not be separated from faith and life, meaning the faith lived faithfully.

Under the spell of the religious impulse (and I distinguish religion from faith), holiness is turned into affected unworldliness, exceptional piety, and the assumption of unusual moral rectitude.