Sentences with phrase «often think»

We often think that having money and acquiring many things widens the possibilities we have in life.

I often think about how people so long for a life without grief and pain and heartache, but I also wonder if we would know what joy and peace are without these things.

i often think our imaginations are flattened via our conceptions of demons, angels, spirits, principalities and powers... and in that almost selfish viewpoint we anthropomorphasize them and mis - percieve their essence and being... and its probably a bit arrogant to think their being is too much like mine...

And I often think that we Christians try to do the Holy Spirit's job when we condemn others for their sin.

I often think that as God listens to us as teach and explain the Bible, He is shaking His head and muttering to Himself, «Where the heck did they get that from?

We often think about discipleship being only for believers, but what about discipleship and the unbeliever?

Yet we so often think that God is the one accusing us of sin.

We often think of prayer as based upon a keen sense of the presence of God.

We often think of loneliness as preventable or as the result of unfortunate circumstances which must be endured temporarily until supportive relationships can be re-established.

I often think of Christians who owned slaves, Christians who opposed integration, and Christians who remained silent as the Cherokees were forced from their homes, and I wonder would I have joined them?

One of the problems in communication is that often we think we are making good sense to someone else, when in fact we are missing something very vital in the background.

We often think this is the summary of this message, which in a way, it was, but it may also have been the totality of their message as well.

The first way is the way we most often think of it, as a synonym for belief.

We should be clear, however, that the police, like many of us, often think like men of the apocalypse, assuming they are on the side of the angels against the forces of evil.

I often think of this with reference to the best - loved character in American history.

For my sins, I often think of them as a vision (oops, there's the V - word again).

Leaders often think that they are «just giving the people what they want» but in reality, a leader makes a nation what they are.

I often think of the set pieces of the liturgy as certain words which people have successfully addressed to God without their getting killed.

I often think of what the eary church was like in acts.

But I often think of how much clearer and consistent and how much more conscience - free a Christian could be without some of the conflicted ideals just in the NT.

In our religious lives, I often think we've forgotten how to marvel, how to not know, how to hold faith that is more true than it is right.

I often think of the words to Adele's song at this point: «Next time I'll be braver, I'll be my own saviour when the thunder calls for me...» Don't do that, Adele!

«I often think that it's just down to the way things are set up.

We often think that refusing to forgive will someone «show» the other person how bad their actions were.

Because of this divide, this «Christian» label we slap on art, we often think art made by Christians has to look or sound a certain way.

I often think about the Holocaust and wonder how the Christians of those years did so little to oppose the Nazis, or rescue the Jews and people groups who were annihilated.

I often think about all the books I could have bought had I not gone to seminary... Ha!

It is clear then that science and its offspring, critical consciousness, are not as innocent of trusting or believing as skeptics often think.

We often think of Jesus as being somebody who never needed a moment to Himself.

Too often we think a community means a group of people who share a common history and a set of well - defined beliefs and aims.

I am actually shockingly pleased to hear it because so often I think believers want to take the hard - line, schoolyard tactic of «atheists killed more people» just so they remain «cleaner», because they think non-believers are saying their «side» is totally clean by criticising the concept of religious warfare.

I live in NYC & often think of how vacuous & self absorbed this city is; but at the same time we always have an opportunity to answer the question: what would Jesus do??

We often think of the Revelation as a quite unique book with nothing else like it; but it is of the first importance to remember that in fact the Revelation is the one representative in the NT of a type of literature called apocalyptic literature which was very common between the Testaments and in NT times.

We often think that prior to Calvary, God was angry and vengeful (there's that fear of God again), and after Calvary, God can now love us because of Jesus.

When Russian literature is mentioned, we often think of stark questions of good and evil, or of plunges in the cold waters of suffering and redemption.

We often think that for the sake of unity we need uniform structures, the same doctrine, the same language and culture, and all should become of one race and color.

We often think that quoting a bunch of Bible verses proves our point, when it never does.

(His book, Introverts in the Church, is one I recommend so often I think he owes me a portion of the royalties.)

From Kerry: I often think of Bonhoeffer when I think of pacifism... he talked about sometimes having to choose between one bad thing (Hitler) and another bad thing (killing Hitler).

It's a little crass, but when I consider whether or not I should read a book, I often think of Elaine from Seinfeld wondering if a boyfriend was sponge worthy.

I often think of those who live in places where they can not access the Word of God, yet hunger for His Word.

I often think, why didn't I hear the messge the first time?

(I often think absurdly that GOD would have practiced first, or at least set up a simulation to see how it would work out.

So often I think our failures to engage with Christianity are to do with a lack of attentiveness and concentration on our part.

We often think that lists and genealogies are boring.

Aside from this, one of the main reasons people often think that baptism is a first step in discipleship is because of what Jesus says in Matthew 28:19 - 20.

It's actually been through working with Wycliffe that my perspective on Christianity and reading the Bible has been broadened as I've come in to contact with people from very different cultures, and I've realised how diverse the world is and that God is so much bigger than we often think, especially when we're in our Christian bubble...

You often think, am I the only one who can see this.

Don't get me wrong — I'm not a member of the Josef Stalin fan club — the dude was a monster, but I often think the west uses unfair criteria to evaluate their wrong - doing.

We often think of the twelve apostles as the only disciples Jesus had.