Sentences with phrase «of weak faith»

Is it not a sign of weak faith or bad faith to force coercive elements in public life to propagate what voluntary ones do not?

It's also a sign of weak faith and the hypocrisy that pervades most organized religion that preachers fear alienating their source of income by preaching on economic injustice but are real warriors when it comes to bashing gays.

Because of his weak faith, the pastor died and is now in H.ell.

«Treat with understanding persons of weak faith.

(which is the same meaning of self - esteem only redirected) It is to show agape love, don't do anything that would make a weaker brother stumble, be mindful if they are of weaker faith.

Not exact matches

If your faith is so weak that the actions of other people can undermine it, you need to reexamine your beliefs.

The paradox of Christian faith is this: It affirms the importance of every individual, no matter how weak or disabled.

Catholics will have to make up their own minds — but I'll admit I have questions about the faith of Pope Francis, which seems, if not weak, at least different from that of the Catholic tradition.

As an outsider, I can't help but wonder whether the pope and the USCCB were particularly provoked by Weinandy's suggestion that Jesus had allowed this controversy in order «to manifest just how weak is the faith of many within the Church, even among too many of her bishops.»

But apparently you are too weak in your faith to think that God is brilliant enough to use science as a way of creation.

There are many of us who are weaker than we realize, and in an effort to be heard and enjoy some personal accolades as a leader of the faith, are; but only to look foolish for narrow - mindedness, cultural irrelevance, or logically flawed expressions of theology.

If your scientists can't make the simplest form of life, and your neo-Darwinian evolution theory is seriously flawed, it would seem that your faith in blind chance should be much weaker than it is.

That's about the weakest form of faith you can have.

Believing that God is the giver of all life, our aim is to uphold and support the dignity, sacredness, personhood and flourishing of every human soul, whether born or unborn, elderly or young, privileged or poor, healthy or sick, strong or weak, American or international, Christian or Muslim or other faiths or no faith at all.

Personally i think those specific prayers are a distraction most of the times we pray these prayers because its what we think we need and often thats not the case.The better way is to just trust the holy spirit let him lead i think we miss the awesomeness of doing it Gods way its easy not difficult.The struggle is difficult when we are walking by the flesh and trying to do it our way.When i got to the point where i said to the God i am not going to do it my way anymore and i submit to you because know whats best for me.Change me and when i feel the wrong desires or temptation to walk by the flesh i just say Lord you know i am weak and i can not live a christian life without you help me.As soon as i do that it is effortless theres no struggle thats how we should grow.I am excited with what God is doing in my life he has opened his word i am seeing the fruit of his life impacting mine and i am changing day by day.I am walking by faith and not slipping back into my old desires i know what it means to be an overcomer sin does not have dominion over me anymore.In myself i can not boast because it is the power of God at work in my life and i give all the praise back to God.brentnz

As we enter the «Year of Faith», a «full survey» of the British Church may be in order, to find out how we became so weak as to have lost such a pivotal, not to say epoch - making, battle.

Through my own pastoral experiences I have come to see that neo-orthodoxy — with all its emphasis on realism in theology, on the kerygma of the Bible, on the sinfulness of personal and corporate life, on the radical nature of the new life, and so forth — is hesitant and weak in calling persons to a positive faith.

The admonition derived from the standard Protestant view of sola fide is that the person weak in faith must try to believe harder.

Apparently his faith was too weak because the snake bit him and he died anyway, regardless of what the scripture said.

And with those honest but fearful souls whose faith is so weak that it amounts to little more than an intellectual conformity to a passive attitude of assent to religions of authority, the Father is ever alert to honor and foster even all such feeble attempts to reach out for him.

It's «good news» only for those weak in their faith who tremble in the face of science.

Stoll believes that the lack of religious faith in today's environmental movement has left it weak and divided: «Presbyterianism wilts and environmentalism droops.»

Sad to see the weak in faith fall into the same trappings that some religious zealots have... pushing their agenda to the extent of harming their cause.

Kaylee if you have asked Christ into your life then the holy spirit -LCB- he is the spirit of Christ -RCB- dwells within you it is him that changes us all we have to do is tell him that we are weak in whatever area we struggle.You mention alcohol when tempted to drink just tell him Lord i am weak but i am trusting in your strength to empower me and he will thats is how we change.If we try and do it in our strength we might succeed for a couple of times then fall back into our old patterns.Then it becomes forgive me Lord for my sin we feel guilt and condemned and that is the work of the enemy who is out to destroy our faith in God and because of our feelings we go and do the same things all over again.But we have a better way and that is to trust the one who is able to overcome having been set free from my old life style of sin i am grateful each day to be walking in his strength not mine.So the Lord has given you the victory in Christ and even if we stumble sometimes in the process we remember there is no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus God bless brentnz

Since pure reason is of itself too weak to discover Truth it needs to be aided by the written record of faith.

Church for me has been hospital when I was spiritually weak and aching, a refuge during storms, a place to celebrate victories, and a community of people I can depend on for relationship, accountability, and partnership in my faith journey.

Your example of Galeleo employing inductive and deductive reasoning to come to a conclusion of faith is pretty weak.

They no doubt do not feel so spiritually weak as to require government sponsorship of their faith.

But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak, not for the strong... One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason — but one can not have both.»

Here we were inducted into the mysteries of our national religion, reasonable, surprisingly masculine for a faith that might at first glance seem soppy and weak, confident, and perhaps above all things unself - consciously beautiful.

If faith results in mass murder (too many examples to list) in an effort to propagate your Gods and Prophets to control the weak and uneducated, I don't want any part of it.

These last factors, whatever their merits, have been around for thousands of years and as antagonists of religious faith are neither stronger nor weaker than they ever were.

In this situation of worsening communal disturbances, increasing violence and marginalisation of the weaker section and disintegration of Indian culture and personality, we try to reflect on the tradition of our faith.

The message of the Christian faith is that because Jesus was strong for us we are free to be weak.

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It's sad to see that their faith is so often weak even after years of the practice.

If your faith is so weak that it can not stand up to being looked at from an objective, historical, evidence based perspective, then this article is the least of your problems.

Because the faith of these yahoos is so weak that they can't handle anyone having a different faith than their own.

skepticism» and characterized by intellectual uncertainty, weak institutions, and the Reformation principle of «faith alone» («Protestantism and the quest for certainty,» August 26 - September 2, 1998).

Christianity is not an economic system, but it has a faith and ideal which puts upon any system the demand that it honor rather than exploit human personality, that it operate as a technique to provide for the material well - being of all the people and not for the exploitation of the weak by the strong.

I also graduated from Duke University and had the opposite journey of faith, from a weak and unsteady Christian faith as a Protestant to currently a practicing Catholic Christianity.

, sober obedience to the government of the Church, distinction as far as possible between what is ever - valid and what is changeable in her faith and constitution, consideration for those St. Paul calls the weak and for the Church as a whole as well as patience with her human side.

«The «fantastic leap of faith» to a natural cause is even weaker.»

Similarly, the Scriptures speak of man outside the covenant (Ground) or outside faith as weak, impotent, fallen (2 Cor.

Even after receiving the gift of faith, we find that the flesh is still weak.

Weak human nature will not let us believe in the promises of God with a confidence that purges from the soul the anguish of fear and unbelief, the Anfechtungen... Therefore, in Luther's discovery of justification the Christian was liberated from the self - imposed requirement to present a perfect mental attitude to God, to confuse belief with knowledge, faith with the direct intuition of an observed world.

When my eyes would wander to the roads less traveled, Certainty convinced me that the safest route was straight ahead, that hesitancy, curiosity, self - examination, and change were qualities of the weak in faith.

Two kinds of people are likely to be offended by this billboard: the weak of mind and the weak of faith.

Instead we have had, at least in some quarters, a weak, embarrassed set of apologies, polite excuses for the Christian faith.

Faith in the claims of the scriptures seems to be so weak, almost undetectable.