Sentences with phrase «little about the faith»

I have found that most of those who so vehemently denounce Christianity, really know very little about our faith.

We know a lot about our own faith, the study found, but little about the faith of others.

More Americans now think political leaders talk too little about their faith and prayer life (40 %, up from 30 % in March 2012), and fewer Americans think political leaders talk too much about their faith (27 %, down from 38 % in March 2012).

Not exact matches

And you of little or no faith at all knows everything about it.

When Sparrow Records in Nashville caught wind of Kendall's little - talked - about faith, they decided to partner with their mainstream big brother and sent her out with big named Christian acts such as Third Day, Nichole Nordeman and Delirious.

But it also spoke to me in my little world about faith and pressing on when one wants to give up due to facing hardships.

How little you know about your own faith — in fact, Christianity has evolved and «progressed» over time.

We have the lowly at the bottom who have little except for their «faith», then you have the guys with a special link to their «deity», who preach to the lowly about all their «sins»... I wonder what's in it for the creator?

It's true what you say about the Mormon faith being a little sketchy, I'll agree with you on that one.

I talk about how the evangelical obsession with sex can make Christian living seem like little more than sticking to a list of rules, and how millennials long for faith communities in which they are safe asking tough questions and wrestling with doubt.

The guy is having a little doubt about the whole religion thing and decides to take some time to explore the strength of his own faith, and they punish him for it immediately?!

I'm a physicist and I know a little bit about how research monies are granted, and one's faith has nothing to do with it.

Jesus talks about the prodigal son, and invites us to have faith like little children.

Or perhaps like the poor gullible fool you are, you just accept things on faith knowing that nothing was written about this character until 30 - 40 years after death and knowing that stories told like that so many years after could very well hold little accuracy.

The fact that you base your vote on faith, tells me you know little to nothing about politics, you are the reason that people make fun of conservatives.

You've picked up bits and pieces about me from earlier conversations and from my sermons, but let me tell you the story of my faith - pilgrimage a little more fully.

Lewis had relatively little to say about liturgy and the ecclesial dimension of Christian faith.

We former evangelicals LOVE to talk about our faith and are sometimes surprised by how little opportunity there is to do so in a Mainline Protestant church environment.

A survey last month by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found «little evidence to suggest that concerns about the candidates» respective faiths will have a meaningful impact in the fall elections.»

You're complaining about people sharing their faith with others, being «pushy,» and in the same post putting in your little plug for whatever system you follow.

You need to stop lying (might want to check the Bible on that point) about what the President has said about his faith, and learn a little about the non-Christian you're no doubt supporting.

You need to stop lying (might want to check the Bible on that point, Janice) about what the President has said about his faith, and learn a little about the non-Christian you're no doubt supporting.

Modern humanity has become expert in its knowledge of the scientific, exterior forces in the world — electricity, gravity or nuclear force — but we know little about the existential forces of the inner world — love, hate, hope, fear, doubt and faith.

At the same time, Wills says surprisingly little about the underpinnings of mistrust of a powerful state that lie in the faith many Americans have long had in the virtues of competitive markets free of government interference — a faith conjoining odd fellows like radical Jacksonians and contemporary cybercapitalists.

I knew very little about it, just thought it was a quirky Christian faith.

To me it appears to be a sub-human one, for it is based on the notion that human enquiry about the implications of what is proposed in faith, as well as the honest effort to see what is really being asserted, is to be replaced by little more than pious credulity.

I've talked with some who have given up on faith altogether, others who have shifted allegiance to another religious tradition, and a lot who (like me) are still a little uncertain about which road to take next.

Asked on the call how his faith had shaped his success as a businessman and his political career, the presidential candidate spoke about «a conviction that life is eternal, that your family is your greatest prize, that ultimately what we accomplish in life is of little significance compared to the interests of the savior Jesus Christ and his purposes.»

Though Scripture does talk about «little faith» and «great faith» (e.g., Matt 8:10, 26), this is not a reference to the degree of faith someone has, but to the difficulty of the truth believed.

Great faith believes and is convinced and is persuaded about some of the harder and more difficult truths of Scripture, whereas little faith does not believe or is not convinced or persuaded about these truths.

They recovered the classical experience of reason as the potential infinity of human questions, showing how this dynamic «ratio» as a desire for understanding is healed and transformed by the paschal - metanoetic experience of faith in the Sophia - Cod of compassion and love.4 Aquinas, for example, understood God as «intimately present within everything that exists since God is existence» and that Cod's omnipotence — Aquinas wrote very little about it — regards not actualities but possibilities, and is best manifested in forgiveness and compassionate mercy.5

It is sacred to me, it is the foundation my faith is built on so I'm a little defensive about it.

Should have just stopped with the headline «Poll Shows Americans Know Little...» Most are to busy following the lives of celebrity's and reallity tv stars like Snooki to know much of anything, let alone read past the headline to find out about a person's faith.

What's great about O Me of Little Faith is that it addresses doubt in a way that is funny, thoughtful, and disarmingly candid.

A little more irony about the human might allow more scope for the stance of awe which Dr. Altizer finds passé, but which is so deeply built into the various forms of the response of faith.

This He did about those who threatened the consciences of the young: «Anyone who is an obstacle to bring down one of these little ones who have faith in me would be better drowned in the depths of the sea with a great millstone round his neck.

Most readers unobsessed with literalism find that these stories say very little about the mechanics of birth, but a great deal about the dimensions of faith in threatening circumstances.

They also found that the parents interviewed knew very little about Christian faith.

It was ALL about image and presentation and precious little God or faith.

The consequence of misinterpretation of Gods only truth is spoken about by Jesus in Matthew 18 v 6 to 7 But if anyone causes one of these little ones who trust in me to lose faith, it would be better for that person to be thrown in the sea with a large mill stone tied around his neck.

We asked questions about his faith, about how it «felt» to be Sikh in Canada (he laughed), about their history, about family dynamics, the differences between Sikhism and Christianity, what they believed and practiced and what was with the little knives.

Today I kick off a short, three - post series about science and faith with a little summary of what I learned at the BioLogos Foundation conference last week.

Stefanelli also reports, «Judge Martin's comments included, «Having had the benefit of having spent over 2 and a half years in predominantly Muslim countries I think I know a little bit about the faith of Islam.»»

You know so little about what is happening in the faith community, and that is ok because — you just don't know

It was this «juggling», this seemingly magical element that still offended Luther so deeply, and he criticised theological theories, enshrined in such a phrase as ex opere operato, referring in various ways to the automatic realisation of a sacrament when performed correctly by a properly ordained priest, with little or nothing said about the recipient and the faith he should have.

Frankly, my initial reaction to both of these questions frightened me a little, for it involved asking harder questions about faith, confronting deeper insecurities within myself, and creeping farther down the dark rabbit holes of doubt that lie in wait in all the scary corners of my mind... which made me wonder, «Is hope really the thing that keeps me from disbelief?

YOU GIVE COMMENTARY ON GRACE AND BELIEVING AND EVEN A LITTLE SCRIPTURE EVERY NOW AND THEN ON THE TWO, BUT ANYTIME SOMEONE TALKS ABOUT FAITH WITHOUT WORKS YOU RUN FROM THE TOPIC AND EVEN HAVE THE ARROGANCE TO IGNORE THE PLAIN AS DAY WORD OF GOD THE SUPPORTS THINGS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH BELIEVING IN GOD!!!

As a Catholic under penalty of automatic excommunication, he knows little about the Catholic faith.

Counseling materials sent to enquirers about religious faith place little or no stress on the need to become involved in a local church and few referrals of enquirers are made.

Thus within a little more than a century about half of Christendom came under the rule of zealous adherents of the faith taught by the Arab prophet.