Sentences with phrase «high act of faith»

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«If there is any fixed star in our const.itutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.»

For the act of resignation faith is not required, for what I gain by resignation is my eternal consciousness, and this is a purely philosophical movement which I dare say I am able to make if it is required, and which I can train myself to make, for whenever any finiteness would get the mastery over me, I starve myself until I can make the movement, for my eternal consciousness is my love to God, and for me this is higher than everything.

Coming only six years into the colonists» massive work of civilization - building, this act expressed the zeal for higher learning that characterized their Protestant faith and social vision.

Are not Nature's countless experiments all variants of a single act of faith, an obstinate feeling of the way towards an outlet leading forward and ever higher?

He also attacks the GUIDEC commentary for conditioning reliable digital signatures on parties acting in good faith and without negligence, saying that if one can know independently of the signature method that the parties are so acting, one does not need the security allegedly provided by the high - tech methods required.

However, in the interim, the Commission welcomes the Government's decision to clarify the good faith negotiation requirements in the Native Title Act following the High Court's decision [32] to refuse special leave to appeal the decision of the Full Federal Court in FMG Pilbara Pty Ltd v Cox (FMG).