Sentences with phrase «of powerful beliefs»

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But equally powerful is the belief that on Wall Street and in boardrooms the sole responsibility of a corporation is to maximize profits for shareholders.

His company was at the top of its game, so his response was powerful: «My belief that things can always be better.»

One of the biggest complaints about Facebook — and its all - powerful News Feed algorithm — is that the social network often shows you posts supporting beliefs or ideas you (probably) already have.

By Doug Stephens Something I've spent nearly a decade of my life passionately advocating and exploring is my deeply held belief that physical retail stores are transitioning from being primarily a distribution channel for products to becoming a powerful media channel for branded experiences and stories.

It describes the popular belief that some powerful group of people such as the Treasury Department in 1873 or a banking consortium in 1929 can direct financial markets and the economy at will.

Those put into question your belief in the characteristics of the god, perhaps even the existence of the god itself, but it is still more comforting to assume something more powerful than yourself has your best interests in mind vs. the idea that we are left to our own devices — especially when you are surrounded by people that agree with and reinforce that idea and shun you when you do not agree with it.

At its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies...»

Catholicism is the belief that an all - knowing, immortal being, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, has a personal interest in my $ ex life.

Only the reader knows of the more powerful and slow - moving forces of state and capital that render these ramshackle beliefs powerless in the scheme of things.

But the true church, the true body of Christ... to which these guys obviously belong, will not waver in their belief that love is all powerful.

Don't you see that children, 4, 5, 6 year olds can come to the same basic belief as you have, and they do not arrive there by using reasoning abilities, but are usually lead there out of fear or love, two very powerful emotions?

Instead, the expansion of the Church into society reflects a belief that Orthodoxy has a powerful and enduring influence over the Russian imagination.

Let's face it, the belief that an infitely old, all - knowing sky - god, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, will cause people to survive their own phsical deaths and live happily ever after in heaven, if they follow some random laws laid down in Bronze Age Palestine = Judaism.

Christianity is the belief that an infinitely - old, all - kowing bieng, powerful enought to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, has a personal interest in my $ ex life.

Catholicism is the belief that an infinitely old, all - knowing, super-being, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies (each with billions of stars and planets) impregnated a late Iron Age Jewish virgin with himself, to give birth to himself and then sacrifice himself to himself to «forgive» the original sin of a couple we now all know never existed.

Think about it, if the belief in their god was as powerful and life changing as they claim, then why do millions and millions of Christians fail so much.

It's a really powerful example of Christian belief put into action.

The Trinity gives language to our strongest belief that our God is not merely a God of history, performing mighty acts only in Bible times, but a powerful, on - the - move God of the present and of the future.

«The president has sent a powerful message... that the United States will lead the global effort in defending and preserving every man, woman, and child's right practice his or her beliefs without fear of intimidation or violence.»

I have already indicated my own belief that ideas and ideals which offer hope of rescue or fulfillment to persons or groups where their vital interests are at stake can be powerful sources of constructive, even revolutionary, change.

Social and family pressures are very powerful in forcing acceptance of some type of belief system.

Believing Jews and Christians can not escape the perennial dilemma of reconciling the existence of evil with belief in an all - good and all - powerful God.

In short, the central theme of faith in Romans is removed from its powerful role as the essential human response to God, one with profound anthropological implications, and reduced to something far more formal (like commitment to Christian belief).

It is annoying however, when believers push their fantasies into the public space and preach that if the rest of us don't buy into their beliefs, their invisible, all powerful god will send us to hell.

The belief that an infinitely old, all - knowing sky - god, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, will cause people to survive their own physical deaths and live happily ever after in heaven, if they follow some random laws laid down in Bronze Age Palestine = Judaism.

Further, the spirit world is a powerful reality in Africa... Such a cosmology calls for a Christology that consciously deals with the relation of Christ to God, the relation of Christ to the spirit world and how the Christ, in the context of the belief in spirits stands in relation to Africans in their dependence on God.32

The movements Howell mentioned were all led by powerful personalities, but they also dealt with basic issues of Baptist identity and Christian faith: namely, the balance of Scripture and tradition as norms of belief and practice (Campbellism); the nature of the true church and its identity markers (Landmarkism); and the reality of divine grace in the plan of salvation (hyper «Calvinism).

t its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,720,000,000 years ago (the age of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.

As soon as you abandon this silly belief in an all - powerful sky dweller with a special plan for your life, you lose the «why me» pity plea at every appearance of misfortune.

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States.

The belief that human history was the working out of the will of an all - powerful, all - knowing God led to a somewhat fatalistic attitude in popular Islam and to the doctrine of predestination in Christianity.

But, knowing our natural fear of death, those who invented and developed the religions added this in as a powerful incentive for belief.

The belief that an infitely old, all - knowing sky - god, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, will cause people to survive their own phsical deaths and live happily ever after in heaven, if they follow some random laws laid down in Bronze Age Palestine = Judaism.

Prayer changes things Even a Mormon can find salvation in prayer Repent of Mormon beliefs Prayer changes things Prayer is powerful and effective And become a Christian

Whichever point of view one adopts, we see that the belief that the law and God's commandment are based on rank imposition by an all - powerful Master on a terrorized slave is based on a misinterpretation.

He emphasized the powerful logic of a Catholic belief in sacramental efficacy.

If God heals alcoholism and AA's are clear in that belief, they can have an enormous impact on the attitudes of government, medicine, religion, and other agencies in determining just how much such entities will welcome the powerful «God - business» solution.

In The Nature of Necessity, Plantinga continued his ground - breaking work, updating and expanding St. Anselm's famous «ontological argument,» delivering another powerful reason for belief.

Culture is a powerful determiner of peoples choices, attitudes, belief systems and behaviour.

But when believers push their fantasies into the public space and preach that if the rest of us don't buy into their beliefs, their invisible, all powerful god will send us to hell to be tortured forever, that's not OK.

Sometimes that religion is something really silly, like the belief in the absolute righteousness and truth, of the words of one man, like a powerful leader.

It is my belief that man's aim has always been to control the behavior of man... and there's not a more powerful and effective way than by religion.

These considerations may be taken separately or they may be combined to make an apparently quite powerful cumulative case against the rationality of belief in God.

The power of belief is a powerful and scary thing.

Nietzsche, Freud, Marx and others have shown that religious beliefs grow out of diseased forms of life based on powerful and often subtle tendencies toward self - deception.

But religion, unfounded self - reinforcing systems of belief that can have powerful, often negative influences over virtually all parts of our lives, shouldn't have a place any more than mal - ware has a place on our computers.

She herself followed a spiritual path alighned with American Indian belief system, but she expressed to me that Highe Pwer meant anything you Believe to be more powerful than you... after deep thought over much time I found that I believe the ocean was more powerful than me and began the path of giving over my poerlessness to the sea... been sober for 24 years and thay has evoved int not just the sea, but rocks.

There was a reason why the founding fathers put kept religion out of our government and now it seems we are being asked to» pick the Christian» in this next years election — we are not picking the leader of a church here people, we picking someone to be the most influential, most powerful person on the earth... do we want someone who has our best interests at heart or someone who will time and again try to change the US laws to reflect his own personal beliefs?

Christianity is the belief that an infinitely - old, all - knowing, immortal being, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, has a personal interest in my $ ex life.

Those that impose their belief system on others contradict the notion that the gospel and the teachings of Jesus are powerful in their own right.