Sentences with phrase «honorable lives of faith»

... maybe some of those same people are Christians... is it so hard to believe that there are many souls who have lived honorable lives of faith and may have never given a second thought to a Second Coming?

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I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.

From the packed and intense inwardness of that statement, which locates the dynamics of the faith - full life of the Christian within the enacted morphology of the Incarnation and resurrection he passes, after sundry personal and admonitory asides, to the blithe and humane: «Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely...