Sentences with phrase «of faith which»

We are looking for realistic walks of faith which build up the reader and lead them to truth.

The sensitive Fiorvante clearly realizes she's a woman still in mourning and yet also longs for companionship, but hesitates to move on due to the deep pain she still feels, as well as the constraints of her faith which makes meeting men a particular challenge.

Thirdly: «In order to make completely clear... the degree of faith which can be placed in the testimonies... every detail relating to violence, coercion or other conditions which diminish the reliability of the evidence is to be appended.»

Zak was desperate to try Leap of Faith which involves jumping off a high platform and catching hold of either a grab bag or trapeze handle, it looked amazing, but we didn't have time to try it because of our late arrival, but definitely will do next time we visit.

If we insist in our evangelism that the hearers subscribe to all our orthodox doctrines and in the full understanding that we subjectively assert must be understood for salvation, we can invalidate for the potential convert the simple act of faith which does bring eternal life.

All religions should be challenged to evolve a theology that articulates the liberative and human values of their faith which provide a basis for responsible participation in the secular realms.

Its membership consists of churchmen: existing and historic individuals, gathered together in a common life of faith which among other things seeks understanding of itself, of God and neighbor.

I've always appreciated the Rahabs of faith which stated come hell or high water, I know there is a G - d who will come and see about me.

«It is clear that the strengthening and maturing of faith which we seek requires a deepening appreciation of the role of faith in completing and fulfilling our human nature and in particular its harmony with true reasoning.

... in the light of faith which finds in Jesus Christ this ultimate meaning I can not but encourage philosophers, — be they Christian or not — ... not to abandon... the audacity to forge new paths... willingly to run risks (para. 56).

There is but only one object of faith which is the irreducible minimum to be believed: Jesus Christ in His promise of eternal life to the believer.

But because, as a believer, he is profoundly convinced of the central importance to all mankind of the record of Christianity, he must embark on what can at best be an incomplete and imperfect summary and interpretation of the history of the faith which has gripped him and on which he has sought to build his life.

In short we may say that faith in Man, by the combined effect of its universality and its elemental quality, shows itself upon examination to be the general atmosphere in which the higher, more elaborated forms of faith which we all hold in one way or another may best (indeed can only) grow and come together.

Unless we believe this, surely we have an altogether provincial view of the meaning of the faith which we profess and the Lord in whom we have that faith.

Your belief in «evidence, logic and reason» is itself an act of faith which leads you to accept some statements and reject others.

Jude (3) speaks of the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Finally, the notion of «handing over» the faith through the centuries was expressed by Paul when he admonished Timothy to «hand over» the tradition of faith which he had received from Paul's teaching (i Tim.

Toleration was granted for private worship in a branch of the faith which differed from that of the prince.

A confession of faith which he either wrote or endorsed contained Protestant elements.

There are those who are eager to substitute the formula of magic which, properly executed, guarantees the magic - maker's glory, for the formula of faith which, in the last analysis, guarantees only God's glory and the forgiveness and ultimate healing of all our woe and bitterness.

On the other hand, the essential faith which is enshrined in this story is the forerunner of the faith which in the Gospels so persistently cast Jesus Christ in the role of healer of all kinds of bitterness, the faith which appropriates to the suffering of the Cross the line first spoken of the Servant of the Lord: «with his stripes we are healed» (Isa.

Dear Brother Bishops, it is my hope that the Year of Faith which will open on 12 October this year, the 50th anniversary of the convening of the Second Vatican Council, will awaken a desire on the part of the entire Catholic community in America to reappropriate with joy and gratitude the priceless treasure of our faith.

Every consideration and the fullest time should be given to those who have to make up their minds to hold an article of faith which is new to them.

Within the human race the people of Israel pioneered the way of faith which is our heritage, and there is no more powerful myth than the story of the Christ of faith.

In submitting himself to the life of obedience, in seeking to be used as an instrument in the renewal of the world, in shouldering the cross of Christ his Lord, the Christian shares in the life of faith which genuinely outlives death.

The result is that he discards all those aspects of the faith which do not fit nicely into the system which he has constructed primarily from sources and data outside the faith.

There is emerging today a new form of the church as the community of faith which is the leaven of that faith and of hope and of love in a unsettled world.

Already we have seen that Christianity is the only form of faith which is not grounded in a backward movement of involution and return.

There takes place, then, truly a communion of faith which is at the same time a communion of cultures.

The purpose of the New York meetings, if I understand it aright, is not merely to seek a superficial reconciliation between the diverse forms of Faith which divide the human spirit and make it at odds with itself, but to find what they have fundamentally in common.

There may be others that we should all agree on if we are going to become unified, but those are just a few examples of the essential beliefs of the faith which Paul mentions here in verse 13.

It expresses itself in the lives of those who embrace it and in the community of faith which together they constitute.

Such examples show that Judaism was not simply an ethnic or national faith, but a community of faith which still occasionally looked outward.

Religious conversion to Christ in this setting essentially means a change of faith which involves participation in the local worshipping congregation of Christian believers without transference of community and cultural affiliations, but with a commitment to the ethical transformation of the whole society and culture in which they participate with others of different faiths.

That is all I tried to do; and I hope that with all their inadequacies and imperfections, these chapters have brought to your attention some, but not of course all, of those consequences of the faith which we share.

They are not ultimately autonomous... but they have a relative autonomy, an autonomy always threatened by demonic forces precisely because God wills to preserve here a sphere for the free decision of faith which is the only kind of victory he wills to have....

But to this also, Crispina did not waver but replied, «Whatever happens I shall be glad to suffer it on behalf of the faith which I hold firm».

There are words of faith which have stood the test of time, reassuring persons in the heights and depths of human experience:

For whether it is in ourselves, or in mankind, or in civilization, or in America, that we are asked to have faith, the admonition always points to an object of faith which is less than God and which certainly does not deserve unreserved commitment or adoration.

We turn eagerly to learn the secret of that leap of faith which gains assurance of God and through which a man becomes a disciple of the Christ who is contemporary with every age.28

There is something at the very center of our faith which reminds us that Good Friday may reign for a day, but ultimately it must give way to the triumphant beat of the Easter drums.

Here then is something about the tradition of faith which lies behind Jesus.

Only such a radical negation will make possible that universal form of faith which is our goal.

Finally, the nonmythological core is constituted by the statement of the justification of faith which appears consequently as the Gospel in the Gospel.

He will not lose sight of the ultimate issues of faith which he would bring before the other, but if he is to open the way to that faith he must practice a loyal, patient, and sacrificial acceptance of persons in their struggles.

Into that equation must be put that sense of the faith which comes from an anointing by the Holy Spirit and manifests itself «from the bishops to the last of the faithful... as a universal consent in faith and morals».

But Abraham's faith was not of this sort, if there be such a faith; for really this is not faith but the furthest possibility of faith which has a presentiment of its object at the extremest limit of the horizon, yet is separated from it by a yawning abyss within which despair carries on its game.

It also converts the defence of a faith which tolerates all into one that now tolerates all faiths, even presumably the loonier of tunes.

In the early Church, which thought of itself as a communio of sister Churches, the vital bonds between these Churches were manifested in mutual exchanges or, in other words, in dialogue with one another and in the reception of traditions or confessions of faith which each then made its own.

Why should the Church accept the Bible of a faith which rejects what is central to Christianity — the conviction that Jesus is Christ, the Son of God?