Sentences with phrase «is a deep conviction»

As a Christian, it is my deepest conviction that in Jesus Christ, God comes to call every one he has made.

The foundation of racial justice is a deep conviction of the unity of humanity and respect for the worth of every person.

This is my deepest conviction.

I think, at least in our lifetimes, there will always be followers of Christ who's deepest convictions are that Scripture precludes sexually intimate gay relationships.

This is my deepest conviction, the hunch on which I feel happy to gamble.

It is my deep conviction that one of the chief sources of difficulty in our time is the common, uncritical acceptance of the foundational dichotomy between judgments of fact and judgments of value, between so - called «objectivity» and «subjectivity.»

Not exact matches

Buffett's career alone is evidence enough of the potential of high - conviction, deep - value fund management.

Some may think that he truly believes everything he says and that he holds deep political convictions that he hopes to achieve with his campaign; others may think he's willing to say anything in order to stay at the center of attention.

Without a deep understanding of the downside, even of the unfathomable, conviction and concentration can be dangerous to disastrous.

The idea that people might have convictions correlative to their worship of God that would create a deep tension between that worship and America is not considered.

I'm glad he has deep religious convictions and actually turns those convictions into action.

There is one further point to be made, however, to bring these remarks into relation with the deepest insights of the Christian tradition in its best moments, and into relation with the convictions of the wisest men and women — past and present, in our own family, of our own acquaintance or within our own awareness and observation.

Hartshorne also has a deep and abiding conviction «that idealism (here taking Ewing's definition: the belief that reality can be explained in terms of the mind) has more to teach us than most contemporaries realize» (CSPM xiii).

In the Middle Ages, the motivations for the Crusades were undoubtedly mixed, but without the deep conviction of conscientious Christians that they should rescue the Holy Land from the infidel, they would not have occurred.

The deeper I look into myself the more clearly I become aware of this psychological truth: that no man would lift his little finger to attempt the smallest task unless he were spurred on by a more or less obscure conviction that in some infinitesimally tiny way he is contributing, at least indirectly, to the building up of something permanent — in other words, to your own work, Lord.

It is a fact beyond question that deep within ourselves we can discern, as though through a rent, an «interior» at the heart of things; and this glimpse is sufficient to force upon us the conviction that in one degree or another this «interior» exists and has always existed everywhere in nature.

But what social conservatives «have» is a vision of the good and a deep conviction that it would be good for everyone and therefore ought to be made as widely available as possible.

Of course, for Protestants, the fate of the United States and the fate of American Protestantism have been deeply intertwined from the very beginning, so adherence to the civic project must stem not simply from confidence that American liberty was generally hospitable to the flourishing of Christianity but from a deep, if inchoate, conviction that the American experiment itself was the political outworking of a Protestant sense of «nature and nature's God.»

These texts were studied in the conviction that doing so would lead to deeper knowledge of the divine.

We have deep conviction that every single human being who lives or has lived has inherent worth and dignity.

It is rather to find a new way to sail through uncharted seas developing a moral code that is in touch with both our deeper Christian convictions and the reality of this generation.

They had inculcated a deep sense of sin and a conscious need of personal salvation; they had overpassed national and racial lines and had made religious faith a matter of individual conviction; they had emphasized faith in immortality and the need of assurance concerning it; they had bound their devotees together in mystical societies of brethren fired with propagandist zeal; and they had accentuated the interior nature of religious experience in terms of an, indwelling Presence, through whom human life could be «deicized.»

She is rightly convinced also that her conviction has deep roots in the Bible and especially in Jesus's concern for the poor and oppressed.

It's hard to explain how deep our conviction was that God had spoken.

David Barclay's ancestors were Quakers, who had deep moral convictions and were involved in setting up Barclays Bank.

But as I've prayed and studied Jesus and talked with Dan and spent some time alone, I've realized that I cry, not out of conviction that the Calvinists are wrong, but out of the deep, paralyzing fear that they might be right.

What this says to me is that it is time to wrestle honestly and openly with this topic of the legal status of deep and sincerely held convictions.

But the deeper strain of Percy's Christian humanism sounds another chord altogether: the exultant conviction that we long for the grace of God not because of our own capacity for it, but because we have already been found by it.

This practice reforms us through «a set of deep convictions about what time is for.»

as Flannery O'Connor put it in Wiseblood: «there was a deep, black, wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sinning.»

A certain trust is offered in the conviction that he or she can endure this deeper world of pain, heat and darkness.

This conviction produced the Trinitarian dogmas of Christianity and is, or rather should be, the deepest motivation of the scientific quest.

And as we know from the great writers of every age, the revolt against convention can be a sort of faith, a conviction as deep as what it tries to overthrow.

The message is unqualifiedly opposed to the use of violence in order to achieve good, but also a deeply disturbing reminder that violence is made almost inevitable when the legal and political system is unresponsive to the deepest convictions of millions of Americans.

Both the predella and the triptych give visual expression to Luther's deep conviction that God, who is hidden and invisible, accommodates God's self to our finite and fallen nature by revealing God's disposition toward us through material things: in the incarnation, in the sacrament and in the Good News of scripture received, above all, through hearing (a material reality, but not visual, to be sure).

An epistemology of the cross shares with feminist epistemologies a deep conviction that we are accountable «non-innocents.»

But if it is such we must remember always that our Christian ancestors were using what for them was the best available wording to express their, and our, deepest conviction when we are true to the continuing witness of experience of life in Christ.

Ecumenism is founded upon deeper conviction than that, for it believes the will of Christ to be greater Christian unity than we know and show.

It is clear that you have a deep conviction of the supernatural and frankly there is no debate or answers that could sway you.

From my undergraduate days at Cornel University one of my deepest impressions is the inscription over the entrance to the main hall of the College of Arts and Sciences, «Above all nations is humanity» To this conviction which an increasing number of thoughtful people now accept must be added another, «Above all humanity is God.»

I am only saying that for many, if not most, of them it is not a deep conviction which makes a genuine difference in their basic attitude towards existence.

He writes: «The Fathers at the Council singled out religious freedom because they saw (accurately) that our religious convictions and practices bring to fruition, however imperfectly, our deepest purpose as human beings — to know and love God.

I've been moving in Victor Davis Hanson's general direction the last few months, having been impeded only by my own shallow convictions, deep habits, and a reticent wife.But, for conversation's sake, I'll offer....

New White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer is a man of deep convictions and strong opinions.

But my baptism was the outward expression of a deep and authentic inner conviction.

The Puritans were earnest folk They had little patience with those who had no depth, no deep conviction, no profound concern with what God was doing in their lives.

Can we lose that salvation i believe so if we totally turn away from him by rejecting the conviction of the holy spirit in our lives.I say that because as a new christian i accepted Christ into my life and the holy spirit was convicting me to surrender my heart to him as Lord and i was resisting him i would not surrender to him fully and so he gave me a choice to either accept him or reject him.I believe he gives everyone the chance to make that commitment as Lord of there life.When we make that deeper commitment and follow him he will continue to perfect us through his holy spirit so that we conform to his image.By the way i knew that if i rejected him at that point that was it he would never bother me again i would have been eternally lost the thought was terrifying at the time.There was definitely a spiritual battle being fought over me i was very aware i needed to decide which side i was on.Thankfully i chose the winning one.brentnz

Neither the deep personal convictions people feel, however honest, nor the lengths they will go to prove and defend them, nor the number of people who feel that way is evidence of the existence of the Judeo - Christian god.

One of the reasons Azumah and I get along is that we don't insist that the other agree with us even as we recognize the deep theological convictions — many of them shared — that shape each of us.

And those of us who believe in respect for religious conviction in its diverse forms have further grounds for deep concern if the choices are truly «all or nothing» between an imposed orthodoxy and an education from which all religious reference has been purged.