Sentences with phrase «leap of faith for»

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.

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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 fofaith 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 foFAITH 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.
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