Sentences with phrase «of men of faith»

The Apostle (Robert Duvall, 1997) Insightful and real portraits of men of faith seem to elude filmmakers — it seems every preacher, especially, that appears on the silver screen is either a saint or a demon.

The Beatified Scientist An important part of combating the myth of the opposition of faith and science is a proper historical appreciation of the irreplaceable contribution of men of faith to the rise of science and its great leaps: scientists who rigorously studied the natural world precisely because it is God's own order given to the world that makes it rational and worthy of investigation.

And so adequate a transcript of the event itself is this «remembering» community that the Resurrection of Jesus is not a datum of faith but a postulate of the community's experience, and the apostolic narratives of resurrection are superfluous, from the point of men of faith.

It is the business of men of faith to see to it that they employ the forms which, in a particular cultural environment, will give the clearest and most exact description of the content of their faith to the people who live in that environment.

With regard to another post regarding faith... I have seen my preemie child struggling for life... I have held the hand of an old person as they slipped from life to death... I have stood vigil in the room of a man of faith as over 40 friends and family crammed into a room sharing pain and suffering as he slipped away suffering from cancer at a young age.

Hope may be called the goal of faith, for it is that unseen destination in the future which gives direction to the present life of obedience of the man of faith.

Imperfect as the statement of the man of faith may be, the reality about which his statement is made remains entirely independent of that imperfection.

It is the responsibility of the man of faith to describe the structure of the realm of God, just as it is the responsibility of the scientist to describe the structure of the created world.

It's also interesting to see the comparisons to Schrader's script for Taxi Driver, and how that's being realized in the context of a man of faith wrestling with the darkness of humanity.

Not exact matches

I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.»

Our faith in this cornerstone of civilization is tested daily, it seems, by bigoted pronouncements from anyone who can get their hands on a microphone or a keyboard, and by images of angry, swastika - festooned men carrying tiki torches.

Billy Graham was a man of towering faith, whose ministry for the Gospel & his matchless voice inspired our Nation & the world pic.twitter.com / FuKaIPOGTi

Paul Dewar, a man of faith, launched his bid for the NDP leadership.

«Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.»

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

> What he did is no different than what the Council fo Nicea did when they created «The word of God»... no??? Men decided and wrote what they thought the word of god was... present christians faith is based on this..

As for the «evangelicals» who hitched their wagon to the blasphemous Romney thinking that Jesus would have voted for someone who openly denies His Diety and sovereignty, and who hijacked the discussion of faith in this country to hide their actual agendas of hate, racism, division, and greed, the election result is another lesson to them to not drag Holy God down into the vile realm of man's political systems.

When a person of Mormon faith is taking a crap, and the crap pieces fall in a manner that makes this person believe their feces is the one true prophet, heir to Brigham Young and Joseph Smith, leader of men and receiver of revelation.

I am a person of faith; I am a man of faith for personal reasons based on personal experiences.

For by grace are ye saved by faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God not of works, LEST ANY MAN BOAST» (Ephesians 2:8,9).»

8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth — men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.

And to persecute everyone that is not like them in their faith of the «Lord» have you not seen history from... well the dawn of man to the Greek waring city states, to the Romans, to the roman Catholics, inquisitions, crusades, ect.

CNN: As sex trade increases around conventions, faith - based groups step up efforts It's 10 p.m. in Charlotte's trendy NoDa district, and a handful of women and one man have hunkered down over French press coffee and pastries.

Few can match Job for pure misery, a man who went from immense personal wealth and happiness to utter nothingness in a matter of days, and fewer can match him for stony faith — a resolute, steely trust that God had an answer, even if that answer didn't really make sense from an earthly perspective.

RELEVANT talks to Bryce Avary (better known as The Rocket Summer) talks about his new album, Of Men and Angels, and about his faith, fans and why he's so happy.

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.

So please, I am implore you to let those who choose to have faith in God do so without your insults, just as I am willing to let you have your faith in God being nothing but a construct of man.

I'll attack Romney's faith because Jesus himself said that not only is it harder for a rich man to get into heaven than to get a camel through the eye of a needle but that what you do to the least of us you do to Jesus.

I pray more will pay no attention to those who would attempt to rob a man of His faith in God's TRUTHS.

I did not pull anything from a flier.you seam to be an educated and knowledgeable person.maybe the law of entropy in thermodynamics is now outdated.most likely changed to try to make some scientists reasoning work.honestly what are the chances of the earth and man to come out of nothing.it takes more faith or blind fanaticism to believe that.

No, although I've voted Democratic in every election since 1976 — except for primaries in Texas where there's no point in voting Democratic — I can say that every candidate I've ever seen has made some effort to look like a man of faith.

These men, the ones who supposedly were followers of the same faith Jesus was, tested Him in public and berated Him, denouncing His reputation, but Jesus had none of it.

I suppose that we couldn't expect much more, since there is little incentive not to lie without fear of God... barring faith in some truly man - made myths that I'm sure this group is willing to offer.

(2 Timothy 3:16 - 17) «Till [ye] all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ»!

'' For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height — to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

For you Ted, those of Faith are the Big Bad Boogie - men, or Boogie - women.

On a positive note we can not overlook the fact that this young man does have faith of God's existence compared to the many in this world that don't believe in Him.

This freedom allows for new expressions of faith and modes of Christian practice to emerge, ones that better accord with the sensibilities of modern men and women, or so we're told.

There are those who think that the Christian religion is what we should smile at rather than hold fast, for this reason, that, in it, not what may be seen, is shown, but men are commanded faith of things which are not seen.

As a writer, and a Christian, myself I am not sure I buy all this man of faith talk in this article.

It so good to see a man of faith doing so much good, and inspiring so many.

Me being a man and believer in all faiths b / c all core values of faith are the same I do have to say that this article is an absolute lie.

It still amazes me how in a country with an origin, and history forged with the fires of the Christian faith, that men and women would operate with such wanton disregard for Almighty God.

The Reformation introduce a wave of man - made false doctrine (the most degenerate of all being Calvinism - TULIP) It is IMPOSSIBLE to be in a church and practice Christian faith.

«For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.»

In order to have faith, you must see past all of the silliness in the bible and take a leap of faith... in other words, you must trun off your logic and reasoning portions of your mind and just believe... well some of us can not do that, and see your religion the saem as all other religions... man made and false.

John Adams a man of faith?

Although he often expressed this vision obliquely, he was relentless in his criticism of those who despised faith as an anachronism: «I am not afraid to say that a devout and God - fearing man is superior as a human specimen to a restless mocker who is glad to style himself an «intellectual,» proud of his cleverness in using ideas which he claims as his own though he acquired them in a pawnshop in exchange for simplicity of heart....

«Rasputin was a man of peace, a man with an innate antipathy to bloodshed whose devout Christian faith taught him that war was a sin.»

Believe it or not, most men and women who take vows to be religious, do so in good faith and after years of prayer.