Sentences with phrase «hands of a man of faith»

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Our faith in this cornerstone of civilization is tested daily, it seems, by bigoted pronouncements from anyone who can get their hands on a microphone or a keyboard, and by images of angry, swastika - festooned men carrying tiki torches.

With regard to another post regarding faith... I have seen my preemie child struggling for life... I have held the hand of an old person as they slipped from life to death... I have stood vigil in the room of a man of faith as over 40 friends and family crammed into a room sharing pain and suffering as he slipped away suffering from cancer at a young age.

Often, people of faith write off atheists as amoral misguided fools.This man on the other hand seems to be taking to heart the idea of walking a mile in their shoes.

but Jesus took him by the hand and said, «O man of little faith, why did you doubt?»

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

In FDR, Ted Morgan observes that Roosevelt made his mistake, with Stalin at Yalta by assuming «that the their fellow is a good guy who will respond with decency if he is treated right» Simon & Schuster, 1985, p. 756) In this respect, Roosevelt was heir to the attitude of Woodrow Wilson, of whom Arthur Link writes: «His faith in the goodness and rationality of men... and in the inevitable triumph of righteousness sometimes caused him to make illusory appraisals of the situations at hand and to devise quixotic or unworkable solutions» (Wilson the Diplomatist [Quadrangle, 1963], p. 17).

This was tantamount to identifying God and evolution, which had the effect of insulating the man of faith from whatever dire effects might seem to follow from the scientist's study of the process in the immediate data at hand.

Justin's friends reacted in a variety of ways — from support, to bewilderment, to suggesting he may be able to make peace between his sexuality and his faith and pursue relationships with other men, to handing him porn in hopes it would help make him straight.

Yet, on the other hand, he never scaled downward man's possibilities, and the very virtues that have been enumerated as belonging to the life of faith and love are implicit witness to his confidence that man with the help of God could live as the «salt of the earth.»

Yahweh in hebrew means my Lord and is a common reference meaning supreme God.In the bible satan is referred specifically as the adversary in hebrew or slanderer in greek its quite clear there is no confusion.Satan is not in the same league as God he is sovereign in fact God has satan on a leash and limits his control particularly over his people as we read in Job.Christians need to realise that satan can influence us if we walk according to the flesh.In the case of David calling a cencus meant he gave in to his pride he wanted to know how many soldiers he had believing numbers would give him the upper hand and so Satan took advantage of his weakness and Davids choice displeased God.David of all people should have known as he as a young man had defeated goliath a mighty warrior and it was because of his faith and trust in God that he overcame.But it wasnt God that made David make that decision it was his own and satan tempted him and he gave in to that desire In the two verses there is no confusion if you understand how God and satan operate i did at one stage have the same issue with Jesus sending the demons into the pigs why would he help satan or at least it appeared that way?

On the narrow ridge of their togetherness the man of faith walks, avoiding the abyss of self - affirmation on the one hand and self - denial on the other.

He calls attention to (1) the degeneration in syncretism of the old Yahweh faith prior to the appearance of the eighth - century prophets; (2) a kind of «emancipation» from Yahweh in increasing dependence upon the maturing structure of the political state; and (3) the dissolution of the old tribal social order with the shift of economic power to the cities, the increasing inability of the farmer, because of the burdens of heavy taxation, to maintain himself as a free man, and the growing concentration of land in the hands of a few wealthy urbanites (cf. Isa.

The biblical faith, on the other hand, emphasizes both man's creaturehood and man as being made in the image of God.

With this faith, we will be able to achieve this new day, when all of God's children — black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics — will be able to join hands and sing with the Negroes in the spiritual of old.

It is not based upon one man's personal insight - his subjectivity - but on the real Life and Faith of the Church which is the handing on to each person of real transforming and divine life in Christ.

Each man, in each generation, must come to a fresh and first - hand experience of what Easter faith means.

His «god» comes from the hands of men... thus his faith and authority is from man.

But no, the hoary old liberal standard - bearer mawkishly burbled, «Pope Benedict XVI's first encyclical confirms him as a man of humour, warmth, humility and compassion, eager to share the love that God «lavishes» on humanity and display it as the answer to the world's deepest needs... This is a document that presents the most attractive face of the Catholic faith and could be put without hesitation into the hands of any inquirer.»

Instead, faith is for him the power, in particular moments of life, to take seriously the conviction of the omnipotence of God; it is the certainty that in such particular moments God's activity is really experienced; it is the conviction that the distant God is really the God near at hand, if man will only relinquish his usual attitude and be ready to see the nearness of God.

15 On the other hand some have sought to avoid the difficulties for preaching that have come with the radical historicization of man by trying to secure an area for faith free from the contingencies of historical investigation.

6:30) On the other hand the word «faith» does not mean for him, as later for Paul and John, the obedience of men under God's redeeming revelation, though this use of the term also enters occasionally into the gospel tradition.

Suppose that there were two men: a double - minded man, who believes he has gained faith in a loving Providence, because he had himself experienced having been helped, even though he had hardheartedly sent away a sufferer whom he could have helped; and another man whose life, by devoted love, was an instrument in the hand of Providence, so that he helped many suffering ones, although the help he himself had wished continued to be denied him from year to year.

In Wyschogrod's work, on the other hand, Jewish thought begins not with analysis of who the man of faith is but with who God is» not with how a member of the Jewish people approaches God but how God approaches the Jewish people.

On the other hand we have Paul saying: «We hold that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law» (Romans 3:28).

Such was Paul's dynamic theology, and Erasmus had failed, so Luther judged, to understand on the one hand the relative dignity and goodness of the Law, on its own merits, and on the other the fact that in any case to keep it was useless, and indeed largely impossible for most men without Christ: «Fulfilment without faith in Christ, even if it creates men like Fabricius, Regulus and others [heroes of Roman history] who are wholly irreproachable in the sight of men — no more resembles righteousness than sorb apples resemble figs.»

We shall always need theology, and it must be the best theology we can produce; but, on the other hand, there is a sense in which we should ever sit loose to theology, remembering that the «one thing needful» is the gospel itself and the faith which it awakens in the sons of men, remembering too that the articles of belief should be, in the words of Erasmus which I previously quoted, as few as are necessary.

(This corresponds exactly to the requirement that man must renounce his reason, and on the other hand discloses the only form of authority that corresponds to Faith.)

Perhaps in the hands of the Texas - noir loving Coen Brothers, who adapted McCarthy previously in their award - winning, No Country for Old Men (also featuring Bardem), we'd get more of a concentration on the struggle between the desirousness of good and corruptibility of evil, the striving of faith and the fickle finger of fate, rather than just the exotic, James Bond-esque showcase of fast cars, motorcycles and cheetahs (the «need for speed» among crooks is one of several curious motifs).

Their discomfort also points to a lack of faith in man - made solutions; we are seen as giving rise to climate chaos and thus must apparently take a hands - off approach from nature.