Sentences with phrase «in eyes of faith»

He's a stubborn, prideful man, undisciplined in the eyes of his faith, knowingly pushing against their expectations while also attempting to fulfill them simultaneously.
The dynamic of such encounters has been analyzed with fertile suggestiveness by Paul Minear in Eyes of Faith [Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1946].
As her pastor, I must help her to see that her deep, unmentionable secret is in the eyes of faith a church problem, an invitation to renew her baptism and possibly that of her son as well by allowing her brothers and sisters in Christ to minister to their need.
In the eyes of faith we are all diseased, and salvation must be to all what is so evidently needed by some — a healing of the self.
In the eye of faith, many sectors of the church appear to be moving toward one another with increasing velocity, portending an explosion of renewal.

Not exact matches

Under the influence of the latter, you stay clear - eyed about possible threats — and stay invested, in the faith that a long - term, calm approach to your portfolio will eventually pay off.
You have to be creative in your use of limited resources, have the ability to catch a potential investor's eye - especially if you're looking further than their circle of friends and family for funding - and see things that other people can't, including having faith in your own vision when others may not.
Both categories would have been unintelligible in the ancient or medieval worlds to which I had thought I was casting back a wistful eye — worlds in which reason and faith had not yet come to be regarded as utterly distinct, ultimately antithetical movements of the mind.
This led to a big split among those that latched on to the words that having faith in Jesus is what is needed to get to heaven vs words that say things like how it's easier to get a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into heaven or help the poor.
They gaze, and, in drinking in the exhibition with their eyes, they are making one continuous and intense act of faith.
It makes sense to me to give myself to Him and reality makes more sense to me through eyes of faith in Him.
Which things being without number in our mind itself, (the nature of which mind is incapable of being seen,) not to mention others, the very faith whereby we believe, or the thought whereby we know that we either believe any thing, or believe not, being as it is altogether alien from the sight of those eyes; what so naked, so clear, what so certain is there to the inner eyes of our minds?
I hope that these scandals open the eyes of the young to what the Catholic faith has become in many instances.
I cintend that the bible also calls us to do the same thing — it calls us to action and then says when we have donr everything we can and there is nothing else we are to stand in faith that it will work out — of course i paraphrase — but wht do people think all christians do is sit on their butts and pray and look pie eyed at the sky - this christian worked her butt of on the streets - and look at Mother Thresa - and other christians working for humanity all over the world - i think athiests have the wrong idea about chtistians...
Religious beliefs, Jewish or Christian, that are God - centered are considered beyond the pale of good taste in their eyes and are subscribed to only by «yokels» and «morons» of either faith.
And btw, this is mostly a Christian concept, and is not practiced in either Judaism or Islam (eye for an eye and Jihad are both religious tenets of those faiths).
Perfection will come when we are changed in a twinkling of an eye and go to heaven, but while here, we try our best to keep the faith and be obedient and self - controlled and lastly leave a good and positive legacy behind
Muhammad saw himself as the one, who had rediscovered the genuine faith of Abraham, Moses and Jesus, which is the Islam in Mohammad eyes.
I know many of you all will disagree and thats okay but If you put your FAITH in Jesus Christ (God in the flesh) your eyes will be enlightened and when you read the bible and ask for understanding, you will be like oooh ok I get it now.
If some hold that the play is not for such eyes but for the eyes of faith, I reply that in matters of religious art, as in other matters, we have the injunction to be harmless as doves but wise as serpents.
When I saw today's cartoon, I didn't assume you to be the one in the armor — on the contrary, I interpreted is as your poke in the eye of the whole «defending the faith» mindset.
That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loin my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loin a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loin many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loIN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll
SALVATION has always been by faith because Jesus was slain from the foundation of the world in Gods eye.
Even though I have been an atheist for several years, I am still somewhat drawn to keeping an eye on the goings - on in the faith was a part of for many years.
I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you to serve and bear witness... to whom I send you to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.
His encounter with the risen Lord had opened his eyes to the fact that the salvation of Israel, as well as the salvation of the whole world, was to be appropriated through faith in Christ.
«Thus Saith I, the Lionly Lamb of all the Gods and Goddesses of GOD and in the Aboveness of My Word are spoken the reverences of my Faith in the Lord and King of all the Gods and Goddesses, Christ Jesus, the redeemer of all the lost souls of lusts» concerns and even those of who did find in their smallness portions of eyeing benevolencies of varied understandings in the Gospels of the New Testaments being righteously divided for Fruitions» sakes.
Let us admit this frankly, once and for all: what most discredits faith in progress in the eyes of men today, over and above its reticences and its helplessness in meeting the cry of the «last days of the human species», is the unfortunate tendency still shown by its adepts to distort into pitiful millenarianisms all that is most valid and most noble in our now permanently awakened expectation of the future appearance of some form of «ultra-humanity».
At the core, I think the word «faith» can sum up a willful ignorance and turning of the eye in matters such as these in lieu of something much more Christologically and hypostatically nuanced and incarnationally robust.
The truth is I panicked when I first read your response (the word «wicked» somehow threw me — but I realize now my heart was poisoned with the wickedness of fear, lack of faith and pride but I am a new creation in Christ who makes me whole and good in His eyes and Care.
Then suddenly, there's this older, gentle, rather aesthetic man, who is approachable... everyone rubbed their eyes in wonder and said, how is it possible that a once strict Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the «Panzer - Cardinal», can unleash such enthusiasm?
There is more here than meets the eye, and one's local congregation is a participant in that family of faith which endures through the centuries as what Paul called the Body of Christ.
To see the world in the Christian way — which, as I say in the book, requires the eye of charity and a faith in Easter — is in some sense to venture everything upon an absurd impracticality (I almost sound Kierkegaardian when I say it that way).
Oh, also, just to add, even though the LDS church has worked hard to legitimize itself in the eyes of many americans, the evangelical christian fundamentalists consider the LDS teaching such a grave perversion of the christian faith (holy trinity issue, extra bible (Book of Mormon), etc.) that it drives them absolutely nuts whenever Mormons try to pass themselves as «christians.»
But our faith is based on the report of eye witnesses that were cross examined in their time and not found to be fraudulent.
At a time when their colleagues who spoke for the church were conspicuously incapable of giving the faith a good account in the eyes of the learned, the Vanderbilt academics preferred to dissociate themselves from their religious leaders rather than take up their cause as allies and persuade them that sound scholarship was God's good servant too.
In these circumstances, the eye of apocalyptic faith perhaps paradoxically does not look for a compromise or partial resolution, but looks forward to a total resolution of the conflict.
The Bible called Abraham and David men of faith, though in the eyes of these Evangelicals, they were adulterers.
We are trying to maintain the dignity of the individual apart from the deep faith that every man is made in God's image and is therefore precious in God's eyes.
That this man of God will shine in God's eyes if he is executed for believing in Him will sound stupid to those without faith.
On the other hand, he teaches that there is a real analogy of being in creation that can be perceived by the eyes of faith.
Thus it is tempting, especially in the light of revelation by which we view the cosmos with the eyes of faith as well as science, to hold that the material dimension of our cosmos was shaped by the promise of life, consciousness, and faith from the time of its earliest formation.
There are those that will mock and ridicule people of faith but Jesus told us that they will do to us what they did to him so it should come as no big surprise even the disciples and apostle and one point in their lives either didn't believe or persecuted people who did believe until their eyes were opened this is nothing new.
To the eyes of faith, evolution — even in its pre-human episodes — is already a revelatory story of the world's movement into God's future.
The eye of sense alone is dim, And nothing sees but water; Faith sees Christ Jesus, and in Him The Lamb ordained for slaughter; She sees the cleansing fountain red With the dear blood of Jesus, Which from the sins inherited From fallen Adam frees us, And from our own misdoings.
Atheism offers nothing to me, it never has and never will, it doesn't make me feel good or comfort me, it's not there for me when I'm sick or ill, it won't intervene in my times of need or protect me from hate, it doesn't care if I fail or succeed, it won't wipe the tears from my eyes, it does nothing when I have no where to run, it won't give me wise words or advice, it has no teaches for me to learn, it can't show me what's bad or nice, it's never inspired or excited anyone, it won't help me fulfill all my goals, it won't tell me to stop when I'm having fun, it's never saved one single soul, it doesn't take credit for everything I achieve, it won't make me get down on bended knee, it doesn't demand that I have to believe, it won't torture me for eternity, it won't teach me to hate or despise others, it won't tell me what's right or wrong, it can't tell nobody not to be lovers, it's told no one they don't belong, it won't make you think life is worth living, it has nothing to offer me, that's true, but the reason Atheism offers me nothing is because I've never asked it to, Atheism offers nothing because it doesn't need to, Religion promises everything because you want it to, You don't need a Religion or to have faith, You just want it because you need to feel safe, I want to feel reality and nothing more, Atheism offers me everything that Religion has stolen before.
Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Faith does not merely gaze at Jesus, but sees things as Jesus himself sees them, with his own eyes: it is a participation in his way of seeing.
To step out of the boat, in the middle of the storm, onto rough waters, and know that I will stand, eyes fixed on the author and perfect of my faith.
(CNN)- After years of keeping quiet about his Mormon faith, Mitt Romney's campaign thrust his church life into the national eye Thursday night, as a handful of Mormons took to the Republican National Convention's stage to deliver moving testimonials about the Republican presidential nominee's role as a member and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints.
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