It was
a leap of faith for my husband and I when I finally made the transition almost 2 years ago; choosing to make it on a teacher's income.
Cobb is finally awake, the top does fall and Mol is dead as nails, Saito's fine and Cobb is better than Morpheus at convincing vanilla - life creators to abandon all reason, risk their lives and take
a leap of faith for just a taste of «intensity and raw creation».
I actually think that is
a leap of faith for most women, to be able to say to themselves in their early years, «I actually am going to make it.
In what's the greatest
leap of faith for the franchise yet, Ubisoft has reformed the combat, implemented a new RPG system and shifted the focus towards all - out action in expense of its renowned stealth.
I know, this is a big step / a true
leap of faith for many but only because they have not researched this out for themselves.
It was a great
leap of faith for B&N to appeal to self - publishers but their late arrival in the game had already put them in direct competition with Amazon that had launched Kindle Direct Publishing several years earlier.
Those are part of a $ 3,000 Platinum package, one that we think will be
a leap of faith for Volvo buyers.
«It would be a giant
leap of faith for these people.
«The experiential learning activities were
a leap of faith for me.
Private Fast & Furious star Jordana Brewster has revealed her surrogate birth was a huge
leap of faith for her because she had to put her trust in...
(I know this is a huge
leap of faith for many business owners) I usually make updates and redesigns to my space every year to two years and I budget in enough to make the upgrades and tweaks that complement our current style and branding.
I loved reading your story and how you took a huge
leap of faith for your relationship.
I've never been that girl to take risks or make
a leap of faith for a man.
«It's a tremendous
leap of faith for young investigators to commit themselves to translational research.
It was
a leap of faith for Heald, who was just getting her lab off the ground, and for Barbara Meyer, the geneticist at UC Berkeley who also took Skop into her lab.
It took
a leap of faith for the school to retain him.
I'm imagining that the turnover rate in «startup land» is high because unless there's a decent paycheck or public recognition, it's tough find the wherewithal to continue on that initial
leap of faith for longer than 2.5 years.
The decision to detach coveted and expensive sports programming from the traditional TV system — which remains the financial engine for broadcasters and media companies such as Rogers Media — is
a leap of faith for the industry, and carries some risk.
It takes more than
a leap of faith for a woman to jettison her former career and buy a clothing franchise.
First Reformed is filled with
leaps of faith for its characters and also its director.
Not exact matches
But now, only six months later, after a series
of major risks,
leaps of faith and shrewd decisions (like a good insurance policy), Chapman's is set
for an improbable comeback.
For many, the hardest part
of starting any business venture is just taking the
leap of faith.
But I am concerned that late - cycle entrants into risk assets like stocks and high - yield bonds are taking a
leap of faith at a time when there is less room
for markets to move up and growing risks
of them falling back.
However, it is far beyond a blind
leap of faith, as the Bible and the life, death, resurrection and ascension
of Jesus are evidence that there is a God and that He loves us enough to provide a way
for salvation even though we as sinners don't deserve it.
As
for numerologists, scientists, and non-believers in general... to explain anything within our universe completely and fully (even the big bang theory or evolution), one must eventually take a
leap of faith and believe in something that equations or definitions can't quantify.
It's an incredible
leap of faith, actually, and a blind one even
for the most brilliant
of us, to say something like that.
They don't call it a «
leap of faith»
for no reason.
For every explanation you offer I can, and on many occasions have, offered an alternative explanation that's consistent with what we know about human psychology and human history, yet mine require no
leaps of faith in a God whose existence I can't prove.
(Forgive me
for criticizing but I take one big
leap of faith that you will be more interested in discussing the logic behind ideas than to get hurt by me opposing this..
-- and who therefore insist that it is human reason itself whose sacrifice is being called
for have no recourse but to explain Abraham's conduct as a «
leap of faith.»
For all his radical Protestant insistence on the nonsacramental encounter with God in the lonely
leap of faith, Kierkegaard served to confirm Percy's Catholic humanism.
If the church could make a
leap of faith from being a carrier
of anachronistic mission and defective theology to being accountable and responsible
for both good and evil, Africa would benefit immensely.
To speak
of a
leap into the light suggests that there are continuities
of faith with the other ways in which we know the world around us, that it is this same world, which we already know in part, which is now seen
for what it truly and ultimately is by reason
of the light which is eternal.
Keep the word «
leap» if you wish,
for it does stress the novelty and discontinuity
of faith; but let us talk, equally symbolically, but with an apter symbolism,
of a
leap into the light.
@NAH, can rebut each
of Colin's points in a reasonable manner, specifically let me call out two (both sort
of related)-- the Christianity refers to only 600 years
of history, and only refers to a small geography (not even the entire earth)-- why «
leap of faith» argument is valid
for Christianity and not
for other independent
faiths, which have many contradictory beliefs compared to Christianity, and if they are equally valid, how can they all be equally valid
Whilst this approach was disturbing
for many Christians at the time, it again meant that defenders
of Christianity, instead
of calling
for a
leap of faith, could start from historical events and argue from them to the divinity
of Jesus Christ His divinity was seen as the perfection
of his humanity and this fitted with the approach
of Schleiermacher, who saw Jesus, whose consciousness was entirely taken up with awareness
of God, as «the ideal representative
of religion».
This
leap of faith is much smaller than the
leap of faith required to believe that some unobserved god laid known immutable moral rules
for humans it designed.
You're fearful because your arguments are built on foundational
leaps of faith that science must fail itself in order
for the rest
of it to be true, rather than the simple and logical answer that there must be a creator.
The quest
for (and insistence upon) the unconditioned nature
of the Bible is really an attempt to reduce the
leap of faith to a pedestrian hop.
You accept the «
leap of faith» as a valid basis
for believing in god in the absence
of evidence, but fail to see that this makes you a pantheist, because you have to accept that the same
leap can be made to any god with equal validity.
It was not a locale
for desperate
leaps of faith.
And
faith signifies,
for him, a gracious acceptance
of our fundamental ambiguity, a steadfast refusal to
leap out
of the inescapable quandary which our mortality and sexuality force upon us.
But to lose
faith in it
for this specious reason (as if a high incidence
of adultery casts doubt on the validity
of marriage) is to lose
faith not only in literature but in the mind's capacity to make those nonlinear
leaps beyond present certainties that give Einstein an occupation and Hawking precedent
for his dream
of grand unification.
One can not be a Christian based on the «
leap of faith» — and then turn around and say those who believe in,
for example, the Hindu gods, based on the same
leap, got it wrong.
Prove your god, heaven, hell, etc exist or shut your trap... only the mentally ill and children have imaginary friends, given that you're not likely a child you would be best advised to seek the local asylum and get medicated
for your delusions before you cause damage to the world or better yet, take a
leap of faith and then tell us if your imaginary friend exists you gullible fool!!
The
leap of faith is a «quantum»
leap, however, precisely because in taking it the believer is remade, enabled in the one through whom (uniquely,
for he is the only Son) he or she becomes adopted into the paternity
of God.
One can not be a Catholic based on the «
leap of faith» — and then turn around and say those who believe in,
for example, the Hindu gods, based on the same
leap, got it wrong.
To go from not believing in the existence
of any God, Hindu or other, to
faith in the love and guidance and loving arms of a Father in Heaven is, indeed, a huge «leap» for some, that takes not only that BELIEF but the FAITH that something, or someone, or a higher being is here with us even in Spirit, will comfort, will love without condition, will forgive no matter what and endlessly when we sincerely ask fo
faith in the love and guidance and loving arms
of a Father in Heaven is, indeed, a huge «
leap»
for some, that takes not only that BELIEF but the
FAITH that something, or someone, or a higher being is here with us even in Spirit, will comfort, will love without condition, will forgive no matter what and endlessly when we sincerely ask fo
FAITH that something, or someone, or a higher being is here with us even in Spirit, will comfort, will love without condition, will forgive no matter what and endlessly when we sincerely ask
for it.
No, you have a basic understanding that your bible is flawed but take great
leaps of faith to cover over the gaps in logic and reason that allow you to continue the faulty conclusions
of your religious peers who have been using the bible to control the uneducated masses
for thousands
of years.
With the help
of Dixie Crystal and RED STAR Yeast sponsoring this event, I took a
leap of faith and went
for these Chocolate Covered Strawberry Sweet Rolls.