Sentences with phrase «greatest men of faith»

The greatest men of faith have always had to work their way out of old concepts, truthfully dealing with their doubts, and winning through at last to convictions honestly their own because they had to fight for them.

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«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

And it may be for some people and you are correct in saying that many great scientists were men of faith, but they also were very private about it.

Trey Burton — a player for the Eagles in today's game — is also a man of great faith.

I suspect that this man will happily return to his faith, but he will do so with a greater understanding of his fellow humans, and a greater respect for others.

The pontiff has requested a debate over allowing married men in the Amazon region of Brazil to be ordained if they are men of great faith.

When the erosions of age begin to leave their mark on my body, and still more on my mind; when the ills that must diminish my life or put an end to it strike me down from without or grow up from within me; when I reach that painful moment at which I suddenly realize that I am a sick man or that I am growing old; above all at that final moment when I feel I am losing hold on myself and becoming wholly passive in the hands of those great unknown forces which first formed me: at all these sombre moments grant me, Lord, to understand that it is you (provided my faith is strong enough) who are painfully separating the fibres of my being so as to penetrate to the very marrow of my substance and draw me into yourself

While it is manifestly true that there is a great faith which has long been the secret of life in Western man, does not the ordinary church, whether in New York, Middletown, or Gopher Prairie, provide such a caricature of this faith that it is really a joke?

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.

We are saddened to hear of the death of Billy Graham - a man of great faith, wisdom and humility.

Nevertheless, the Christian faith in immortality has an important connection with the idea of man's dignity and worth, for according to the Christian outlook every human soul has a value great enough to be appropriately thought imperishable.

Hebrews 11 is the faith chapter of the Bible, and it records the accounts of great men and women of the past who lived by faith.

cit., «The Faith of Judaism,» p. 18, «The Two Foci of the Jewish Soul,» p. 32 f.) Man's action and God's grace are subsumed under the greater reality of the meeting between God and mMan's action and God's grace are subsumed under the greater reality of the meeting between God and manman.

'» Yes, I believe because of communion, but still I am lonely, for what can a man of faith like myself say to a society for which «practical reasons of the mind have long ago supplanted the sensitive reasons of the heart» (Soloveitchik), and which «renounced the search for a great light» (Francis)?

The aversion to supernaturalism or to any appearance of dualism that seemed to threaten or to undo the assumption of «one - world order of meaning» has rendered the modern consciousness peculiarly insensitive to the great themes of Christian faith that have meant to point beyond man's own human powers and resources.

We have another heritage, however, springing from the great Hebrew prophets, coming to its fulfillment in Christ, gathering up the best of ancient Greece, a heritage of faith in God and man, of humaneness and goodwill.

May I strongly suggest you invest some time in reading most any of the works over at WallBuilders.com It will become very clear that this great nation was built by men of great faith and courage, and not to dominate others.

I had read Invisible Man before, but of course in re-reading it recently saw a great deal more — particularly interesting was how many Whitmanian and Croly-esque notes of «democratic faith» were sounded by Ellison in it, but always with a more tragedy - attuned, and more down - to - earth, sensibility.

He was a gifted communicator, effective motivator, a man of faith and great courage and full of the Holy Spirit.

Neville i mentioned those people only because the discussion was talking about dominionism the combination of the church and state as a governing rule all those people were government leaders all of them suffered in there own way.Its was the suffering that prepared them for the roles that they were to play and there faith in God was what helped them get through.We are made stronger in our weakness no matter how important or unimportant we may appear to others.I guess it is easy to fall into the lie about political involvement that its hard to make change but some people have had a huge impact.Really it is God who deserves the praise he is the one that creats the opportunitys to make impact on the world as in our strength we can do nothing.In hebrews the great men and woman of faith there are those that seemed unimportant to the world and many suffered for there faith Our Lord knows everyone by name and every small act of faith we do he remembers because we do it out of our love for him that is what the christian walk is about living for Jesus and sharing that love with others.brentnz.

Unfortunately there is no single brand of specialists — call them «hominists» — to whom one can turn for authoritative answers about man, as one might turn to linguists for information about languages or, if he had great faith, to meteorologists for understanding the weather.

faith + ignorance = religion faith is a great thing, corrupt it with man interpreting it and using it to control the ignorant and add fear to it and you have most of the worlds religions today.

I do in a sense have faith but my faith lies in believing in things such as personal responsibility, values such as hard work, respect, and ethics such as charity and helping others (which I developed on my own out of my own choosing and I recieve my own satisfaction from doing not a belief in sucking up to an invisible man in the sky for «great reward» after I die).

It is a great mistake to conclude that we thereby deprive it of all value and meaning.5 When man reaches the limits of his empirical knowledge about himself and his world, he confesses his faith, or his response to life, in the form of myth and poetry.

They are functionally identical with biblical visions of joy and hope — the eschatological sense that language and faith may indeed convert and convict and lead men and women to that great imaginative vision of the New Testament: a new heaven and a new earth in place of a crowded and tired planet.

If a man must say that he can not find God in the reality of his own present life, and if he would compensate for this by the thought that God is nevertheless the final cause of all that happens, then his belief in God will be a theoretical speculation or a dogma; and however great the force with which he clings to this belief, it will not be true faith, for faith can be only the recognition of the activity of God in his own life.

It carries on its task in continuity with a great tradition and on the basis of convictions implanted historically into historical men; it works in a community that has a structure and a definable faith.

As Professor A. F. Taylor has insisted in The Faith of a Moralist, all «working» religions which hold sway over the great multitude of men tend to be «revealed»; and even in primitive expressions of the religious impulse something of the idea of «revelation» is to be found.

For I would add, «I have no faith at all, I am by nature a shrewd pate, and every such person always has great difficulty in making the movements of faith — not that I attach, however, in and for itself, any value to this difficulty which through the overcoming of it brought the clever head further than the point which the simplest and most ordinary man reaches more easily.»

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

The Beatified Scientist An important part of combating the myth of the opposition of faith and science is a proper historical appreciation of the irreplaceable contribution of men of faith to the rise of science and its great leaps: scientists who rigorously studied the natural world precisely because it is God's own order given to the world that makes it rational and worthy of investigation.

[But the church] is forever involved in the great inversion whereby man turns back upon himself and his works, back upon his faith, away from the God of faith.

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!

We think of Abraham, or Abram, as this man of great faith who left his family, his home, his possession, and just picked up and left one day when God told him to go.

Abram was not naturally a man of great faith.

No, Abram became a man of great faith because for many years he had very little faith, and even in those times, God continued to keep his promises to Abram.

When there is a momentary break in the course of these disasters, when abundance is known, when peace timidly establishes itself, when justice reigns for a span, then it is fitting, unless we are men of too little faith, that we should marvel and give thanks for so great a miracle, realizing that no less than the love and faithfulness of the Lord has been needed in order that there might be this privileged instant.

There is not a little religious exclusiveness in the history of the Hebrews as it is recorded in the Old Testament, and this gave rise to a Jewish particularism which the greater prophets had to condemn as they stressed the love of God for all men.4 Yet the doctrine of creation that is the common heritage of Jewish and Christian faith asserts unequivocally the unity of mankind and leaves no standing ground for racial exclusiveness.

In the opening pages Luther set the pace, speaking of the Duke rubbing «his scabby and scurvy head» against the Elector, saying that the Duke «curses, blasphemes, shrieks, struggles, bellows, and spits», and says that such books as the Duke's «make me tingle with pleasure from head to toe when I see that through me, poor wretched man that I am, God the Lord maddens and exasperates the hellish and worldly princes... while I sit under the shade of faith and the Lord's Prayer, laughing at the devils and their crew as they blubber and struggle in their great fury».

It is not surprising that it was through a study of Paul that Martin Luther, who had plagued his body in order to be sure of eternal salvation by the statutory methods of medieval religion, found a great burden fall from his shoulders, when he rediscovered the role of faith in bringing freedom to men.

-- But greater than all this it is that the knight of faith dares to say even to the noble man who would weep for him, «Weep not for me, but weep for thyself.»

As a man of faith, I take great responsibility in being a good steward of my talent,» the father of two wrote in a blog post earlier this year.

There were other groups among the Jewish people who belong with far greater right than the Essenes to the antecedents of the movement led by Jesus; such, for example, were those who were waiting for «the Man» who was to come from heaven, or Galilean adherents of the Messianic faith, or pietistic religionists of one sort or another.

He was a great man and a great hero of the faith.

Over the last 24 hours, our Republican colleagues have negotiated in good - faith to forge a workable final package that will protect the health of the men and women who selflessly answered our nation's call in her hour of greatest need.»

For despite the great successes of his career, Mario Cuomo was fundamentally a humble man and a man of great faith and a man of great faith in God.»

The Resolution for Men by Stephen and Alex Kendrick with Randy Alcorn Edited by Lawrence Kimbrough B&H Publishing Group Paperback, $ 36.50 272 pages ISBN: 978 -1-4336-7122-7 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is an unapologetic call for men to live courageously for their faith and their families... We believe there is a rising movement of men who are disgusted by their own mediocrity and dissatisfied with the weak standards of our dark culture... Men who want to make the most of the rest of their days... Throughout history, men who lived incredible lives and left great legacies did it intentionalMen by Stephen and Alex Kendrick with Randy Alcorn Edited by Lawrence Kimbrough B&H Publishing Group Paperback, $ 36.50 272 pages ISBN: 978 -1-4336-7122-7 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is an unapologetic call for men to live courageously for their faith and their families... We believe there is a rising movement of men who are disgusted by their own mediocrity and dissatisfied with the weak standards of our dark culture... Men who want to make the most of the rest of their days... Throughout history, men who lived incredible lives and left great legacies did it intentionalmen to live courageously for their faith and their families... We believe there is a rising movement of men who are disgusted by their own mediocrity and dissatisfied with the weak standards of our dark culture... Men who want to make the most of the rest of their days... Throughout history, men who lived incredible lives and left great legacies did it intentionalmen who are disgusted by their own mediocrity and dissatisfied with the weak standards of our dark culture... Men who want to make the most of the rest of their days... Throughout history, men who lived incredible lives and left great legacies did it intentionalMen who want to make the most of the rest of their days... Throughout history, men who lived incredible lives and left great legacies did it intentionalmen who lived incredible lives and left great legacies did it intentionally.

Lost in and separated from all this is Mel Gibson's powerful statement of faith, the potential cruelty of man, and the human drive to survive physical and psychological torture in the name of a greater good.

Stephen Covey was a remarkable teacher, a man of great principle and faith, a loyal and caring husband and father.

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property — either as a child, a wife, or a concubine — must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.