Sentences with phrase «of ordinary believers»

We ought to begin forming book clubs and literary circles, comprised of ordinary believers, reading and reflecting on important ideas and beautiful stories.

And Santorum's speech wasn't great, although it contained a promising theme about Obama's schoolmarmish snobbery that's full of contempt for even the conscience of the ordinary believer.

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Never in any ordinary, non-mystical believer's life is there a deeper experience of being gripped and converted, as Jonah turned around and returned to his mission.

These acts may seem small and limited, against a global background of persecution and terror, but every act of kindness and mercy, practiced on a wide scale, by ordinary believers, would be significant.

That coupled with what I observed in a lot of Christian believers, being ordinary people, sinners like I am, yet having faith in God and His redemptive Grace, I accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and personal Savior in a moment of clarity over a prayer.

The result was a version of Christian origins that in many if not most points was at variance with the version accepted by the ordinary believer.

First, Christians in the past, from theologians to preachers to ordinary believers, have engaged in such speculation — or at least accepted the speculations of others.

Conclusion: The alls of a Christian should be available for people in need, firstly believers in need, but even ordinary people in need (good Samaritan).

Politically aware theologians (and many ordinary believers) find themselves caught between trusting in this assurance — and so taking no political action — or taking action based on what seems to be a loss of faith in God.

But perhaps it is more interesting and significant to note that this double eschatology no longer seems to function in the ordinary consciousness, even of convinced evangelical believers.»

By 1980, however, the somewhat chastened magazine acknowledged he was not: «God is making a comeback Most intriguingly, this is happening not among theologians or ordinary believers — most of whom never accepted for a moment that he was in any serious trouble — but in the crisp, intellectual circles of academic philosophers, where the consensus had long banished the Almighty from fruitful discourse.»

I speak not now of your ordinary religious believer, who follows the conventional observances of his country, whether it be Buddhist, Christian, or Mohammedan.

An ordinary human being became an avid believer in the son of God.

Though Updike has not discerned it, there is a deep link between such womanly other - love and the selflessness of nuns and rabbis and ordinary believers in God.

The ordinary believer is also familiar with several of the names of the twenty - five prophets mentioned in the Qur» an, not only because almost all of these names are used as proper names, but also because there are more or less complete descriptions of the lives of the prophets written in Malay, in Arabic script, and now also available in Indonesian in Latin characters, and in Javanese in Javanese script.

The third fundamental belief of Islam, belief in the Scriptures revealed by God, holds significance for the ordinary believer only insofar as it concerns the Qur» an.

A Pair of Killer Shades: I'm a believer that the perfect pair of shades can rev up an ordinary outfit.

The Balkan Islamists supreme Ulema here are now viewed by ordinary believers as gangsters and enemies of the Muslims.