Sentences with phrase «inner life of a faith»

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if the inner of of us started with that we will find out that we were not the only ones needing to change but no Change if we do not started within our own inner selves first «souls» because it is only our souls ride us like untrained wild horses and only with faith and religion we are to train it for total control of the wild horse that lives within us all male or female!?

(Romans 3:24 - 25) Goodness had once been the work of a strenuous will endeavoring to obey God's law; now, to Paul, goodness is the overflow of an inner life which by faith has welcomed the indwelling Spirit.

According to Christian faith, this inner life of the spirit is more vital to human nature than the body because it is here that our desires, hopes, aspirations, joys and sorrows, motives, and ideals are located.

He has been exposed to several other faiths, which I believe gives him a well - rounded perspective on the inner life of men and women.

Fulton Oursler has called it «The Greatest Story Ever Told» — this story of the coming of Jesus to live among men the life of God, to save men from their sins and inner defeat, and to impart new life through faith.

It appears that there is general though only implicit recognition of the fact that a call to the ministry includes at least these four elements (1) the call to be a Christian, which is variously described as the call to discipleship of Jesus Christ, to hearing and doing of the Word of God, to repentance and faith, et cetera; (2) the secret call, namely, that inner persuasion or experience whereby a person feels himself directly summoned or invited by God to take up the work of the ministry; (3) the providential call, which is that invitation and command to assume the work of the ministry which comes through the equipment of a person with the talents necessary for the exercise of the office and through the divine guidance of his life by all its circumstances; (4) the ecclesiastical call, that is, the summons and invitation extended to a man by some community or institution of the Church to engage in the work of the ministry.

Regardless of our inner - self's occasional reluctance to do so, forgiveness is a core principle of living out that faith sacrificially.

The Church for him is something like the uniformed units in God's array, the point at which the inner character of man's divinized life is manifested in tangible historical and sociological form or, rather, in which it is most clearly manifested because, to the enlightened gaze of faith, grace does not entirely lack visible embodiment even outside the Church.

The chapter headings give us an overview of the work: Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ: the theological project of Joseph Ratzinger; The critique of criticism: beginning the search for a new theological synthesis; The hermeneutic of faith: critical and historical foundations for a biblical theology; The spiritual science of theology: its mission and method in the life of the church; Reading God's testament to humankind: biblical realism, typology, and the inner unity of revelation; The theology of the divine economy: covenant, kingdom, and the history of salvation; The embrace of salvation: mystagogy and the transformation ofsacrifice; The cosmic liturgy: the Eucharistic kingdom and the world as temple; The authority of mystery: the beauty and necessity of the theologian's task.

At the existential level of living faith and inner constructs of belief, the clear - cut lines so essential to unified doctrine and distinctive creeds blur, and the world of faith becomes a kaleidoscope.

Do not our congregations expect from their own ministers that they wrestle honestly and immediately with the Christian faith and the issues of human life, and preach from that inner encounter rather than give a digest of what other ministers have said?

Just as Christians, there are huge varieties of Hindus and they all hold different mixes of inconsistencies, applications and embracings of parts of their faith as they weave together an inner life which is far more similar to Christians, for instance, than they'd like to imagine.

Daily meditation became essential; he saw that dogmatic theology needs never to be viewed in isolation from the moral and spiritual; radical Christian life and witness is the interpenetration of ex opere operato and ex opere operantis; effective expressions of faith and liturgical rites call for fervent inner spiritual life.

(33) In their book on Protestant Christianity, Claude Welch and John Dillenberger describe «the development of theology» as always being «a dual movement, an expression of the inner life of the community of faith as it acknowledges the presence of God in Jesus Christ, and at the same time a partial reflection of the contemporary world.»

For, priests bought wholesale the motto of liberalism and its individualism, which effected the separation between the private and public life, the realm of the inner life and external realm, between the secular and the sacred spheres, and between the Sunday faith and weekday morality.

It is, in a manner of speaking, internal history; it portrays a people's inner life, self - understanding, and faith.

This inner poisoning of life... can not... be overcome simply by victory over economic need, political oppression, cultural alienation and the ecological crisis... The absence of meaning and the corresponding consequences of an ossified and absurd life are described in theological terms as godforsakenness... Faith becomes hope for significant fulfillment.

Our task is to live in this faith, to be joyful, and to live now in love which is the inner meaning of eternal life.

Would like to find someone that possesses a strong faith and inner peace.That also enjoys and appreciates the simple things in life, the awesomeness and beauty of nature, mingling with...

Early 20th century abstraction went the other way, expressing faith that colors, shapes and lines could be powerful reflections of an artist's inner life, rather than the outer world.