Sentences with phrase «less the faith of»

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At the end, people care less about the facts than about a lack of faith and trust.»

If we ask a customer to take one big leap of faith and complete an action, they are far less likely to be persuaded than if we'd started small.

Mancunians of all faiths came together less than 24 hours after the attack took place at Manchester Arena.

The purchase price of each Share will be (i) not less than the net asset value per Share (the «NAV Per Share») of the Company's common stock (as determined in good faith by the board of directors of the Company or a committee thereof, in its sole discretion) immediately prior to the Expiration Date (as defined in the Offer to Purchase)(the date of repurchase) and (ii) not more than 2.5 % greater than the NAV Per Share as of such date, plus any unpaid dividends accrued through the expiration date of the Tender Offer.

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.

We are both men of faith yet that does not mean there would more or less peace between us.

As with every other aspect of living this faith that we claim, it requires less «us» and more «Christ in us.»

Second: The Creation tale is simply a way for early humans to explain mans creation and «fall» from God's predetermined path... The old testament is full of stuff more related to philosophy and health advice then «Gods word» However, this revelation has not made me less of a christian... In Contrast to those stuck in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and us.

The casual, hourlong discussion veers from such topics as determinism and the role of the observer (get ready to reopen the catbox), why «the God particle» is an inane name for Higgs boson, and why quantum mechanics does not make faith easier, but does make pure materialism less tenable.

Then pretending that those who lack their belief also have a faith based position demand much less intellectual discipline is a much easier option than facing up to the burden of proof they give when insisting they believe what they do.

If Christians and Jews think people of their faiths are any less dangerous than Muslims, they're delusional.

But Catholic teaching typically explains a hierarchy of public issues, prioritizing marriage and sanctity of life, for example, which are intrinsic to Christian faith, over important but less theologically binding issues of prudential judgment, such as federal entitlement programs or immigration.

I am not sure that a practicing believer of any faith, taking a break from verbosity about their religion, will be any less religious... or gain much insight into the commonality of humanity and human experience.

The atheist who claims to come from a «faith» background is extremely confused and more to be pitied than admired.Had the supposed «believer» continued in the «faith» they claim to have forsaken, they would ultimately have appeared before God and been rejected.These were deceived, they never met God, they never knew God and they never understood God.They are devoid of the Truth and twice lost.There is hope while they still breathe Gods gift of life that they might someday meet and be reconciled to God, but their lying nature makes salvation less likely.Debate with them is an exercise in futility.God bless

Our son's family are members of a community church (Southern Baptist, more or less), where, last Sunday, the pastor preached on putting faith into practice, and pointed out that there are about 250 orphans living in our area.

One cause of this decline in awareness of Buckley's Catholicism may be the fact that he wrote less about his faith than any other major Catholic figure of the twentieth century — at least, if we calculate by sheer percentage of the prose he turned out in his hugely productive lifetime.

Anyone with a less juvenile mind and of serious contemplation would examine more substantial item of the Mormon faith.

I guess if you live your whole life by such a narrow, fear - constrained outlook, then it is likely to make you miserable, but for so many of the Christians I know, their faith is a huge source of joy and inspiration to them — and this is even true for many of the less open - minded ones!

It was written by many people over the span of hundreds of years, it is tribal rules from the infancy of our development and arguably is not a good book at all but full of hatred, spite and unspeakable violence, and you arent allowed to use «faith» as your proof of existence... faith is nothing less than the throwing away of reason i.e. belief without evidence.

Or might you be a little less sure of your religion and have more love and empathy than you do faith in it.

Only < than 1 percent of priests have ever abused a child, far less on a percentage basis than coaches, teachers, and ministers of other faiths.

Turning it over to God / Higher Power or the Flying Spaghetti Monster won't get rid of it... I would like more science & psychology & less Faith / Religion in my 12 - steps.

If faith is good for you & you think you are better for having it, good for you and I won't think any less of you, as long as your are respectful of me.

Those of faith who still decide to persist in their faith will at least sound a lot less ignorant when posting on here if they get a little bit more informed.

His goal was to make the chapel «less of a faith - specific space, and to make it more welcoming to... visitors of all....

(A decision for same - sex marriage by a state could as in the case of Massachusetts, preempts the debate in that state, but it is less far - reaching because it leaves other states to arrive at a different conclusion — unless, as some same - sex - marriage proponents have claimed, other states are required to recognize such marriages under the Constitution's requirement of giving «full faith and credit» to other states» proceedings.)

Plus, in the modern of era of music, «worship» has become less about a genre and more about the song itself, with artists from a variety of backgrounds performing stripped - down spiritual odes about God and faith.

In fact, people often cite the fact it makes no sense AS evidence of its strength because believing it requires more faith the less you can rectify rationally.

What Sarah Bessey does is claim the voice of feminism for her own Christian faith — an evangelical faith, no less!

Job applicants who mentioned any form of faith affiliation on their resumes were 26 % less likely to be contacted by employers than candidates who didn't, according to the study conducted by sociologists at the University of Connecticut.

For that matter, a great deal of how we understand the faith has been more or less settled in this way — after decades, if not centuries, of heated debate.

«In this circumstance, religions that can not do justice to the value of other faiths will be less and less credible to their own believers.»

And that is a purely faith based ideology, no more or less so than Christianity or any other of the world's religions.

The intellectual climate of institutions of higher learning is apparently less naturalistic and humanistic than a decade or two ago, but where this mood still is found, the counterclaims of Christian faith must be persuasively though never dogmatically set forth.

Fourth, although there is a fixed canon in most religions, it is also true that there is often a body of supplementary literature which, while theoretically less sacred, does nevertheless constitute a highly important source of direction for faith and practice.

I think rather that what he is saying is this: Revolutionary violence is to such a degree the only possible expression of the Christian faith that, if I suspect that my faith is leading me to become less violent, I am mistaken about the content of the faith and must abandon it; because, having decided for violence, I am sure that I am in the true Christian succession.

but as there are not, the g.ay lobby is instead fighting the greater underpinning of conservatives» faith — which begins to feel less like a «hey, let's think about our same Jesus together» to a «hey, your Jesus su.cks; come let me replace your entire faith with my version.»

This is a less - than - reality - t.v. - worthy, day after day, messy journey of faith draggin» its triflin» self back to the cross where Jesus offers peace and blessing to the broken - hearted.

PROPAGANDA: I'm convinced one of the biggest defining changes is that the term «evangelical» has much less to dowith your faith than it does your politics.

Joseph Ratzinger had answered from the Christian perspective precisely the question that Pope Francis» homily raised (if less reverently) in some circles of skeptics yesterday: If non-believers can go to heaven, why bother with faith at all?

The existence in Camus» literature of Tillich's second and third characteristics of absolute faith, however, is less clear in Scott's analysis.

Lack of faith seems less appropriate than lack of insight.

Hell the so called «Christian» Leaders don't even look out for women of their own faith much less any outside group.

, we wrote: «Throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s Faith movement carried the flag in the UK for [orthodox] doctrinal catechesis... made [even less fashionable] by our calls for a real development of doctrine and theological expression... There are now many voices championing orthodoxy... [which] are greatly to be welcomed.»

Already there are many thousands of present - day parents who were brought up with no religious faith and few standards, and they have had almost nothing, and sometimes less than nothing of spiritual value, to pass on to their children.

But nothing less than the recovery of real Christianity, with its ineradicable emphasis upon human compassion, and its inexorable insistence upon the transience of this world and the reality of eternity, will ever put back into the disillusioned the faith, hope, courage and gaiety which are the marks of a human being cooperating with his Creator.

It wasn't just about the subject matter — although it's tricky to write about such a tender and intimate time in a person's life, to tell your own story while still holding space for stories that are so different than your own, to attempt to shepherd people well in the liminal spaces of their faith journeys — but it was also just the season of life with being pregnant with our fourth and then giving birth and suddenly having four tinies between the ages of 9 and newborn meant I had a lot less time with a lot less energy (and even less sleep!)

I don't know how old you are, but the older I get, the less I'm convinced that I have every jot and tittle of my faith down just right, and I'm much less inclined to impose my views on others.

After a few years of wilderness wandering (you should expect that, by the way — look for the manna; look for the water from rock), I found myself in the Episcopal Church, which is no less riddled with conflict and shortcomings than any other Christian tradition, but which introduced me to the sacraments that have managed to sustain my ever - complicated, ever - faltering faith.

Comparable liturgies of Spirit - led groups need to be invented to provide vehicles of maturing in our day; otherwise, conventional Sunday morning worship will tend to freeze worshipers into nonparticipation and thereby arrest members at less mature stages of faith.