Sentences with phrase «on deep faith»

It offers inspiration, and is centred on deep faith in a loving and all-wise God.

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Tucked deep into the fertile soil and God - fearing air of the Mississippi Delta, the church is nestled on a flat, barren landscape, one of hundreds in a region where faith is the answer to poverty and hardship.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

No deep discussion on faith or Heaven.

Beyond her mass acclaim for her poetry, the late Maya Angelou is remembered for her ability to openly and honestly reflect on life, relationships and faith in ways that highlight hidden meanings and deeper truths.

I think some guys are going the deep end on someone else's faith which is none of our barn business.

On the other hand Muslims who obviously hate the west and all things western so passionately should be actively encouraged to go back to Muslim - dominated countries where they can practice their faith in deep purity free from corrosive Western cultures and freedoms.

He says spiritual mentors like a Sunday school teacher in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and some of his Redskins players helped him get back on track with a deeper, more meaningful Christian faith even while the struggles were at their worst.

It is not always a dogmatic and insensitive cleric that inflicts pain and discouragement on those whose faith calls them to seek a deeper, more meaningful relationship with God than that marketed for mass (lowest common denominator) consumption by the institutional church.

An emphasis on the decision character of faith has a long and deep history in the American psyche going back to our Puritan and evangelical ancestors.

For while there are bits and pieces of new information here, the essential truths about the man — his deep (and deeply Bavarian) faith, his extraordinary intelligence, his human decency — were already on display in Seewald's three previous interview - collaborations with Ratzinger.

For Burton, much like Burkhead, this deep and abiding faith has implications on actions both on and off the field.

My own peculiar task in my Church and in my world has been that of the solitary explorer who, instead of jumping on all the latest bandwagons at once, is bound to search the existential depths of faith in its silences, its ambiguities, and in those certainties which lie deeper than the bottom of anxiety.

Pixar movies might make unusual sermon illustrations, but just like with any piece of art, at the core, they hit on deep truths that can inform and challenge our faith.

Like Teilhard, he has deep faith that the evolutionary energies of the universe which have brought life on earth to its present high pitch are working through today's crises to a new level.

It was pride on my part that stopped me entering into that deeper walk i wanted to do it in my strength but we can not the more we walk according to the flesh the more of a foothold the enemy has on us so we struggle.When we crucify the flesh and the works of the flesh and draw closer to God and rely on him we become as he is and that is who we are called to be.So we do not fail but continue to overcome in his strength not looking to the flesh at all but to Christ.You and i were called to be overcomers more than conquerers.May the Lord continue to strengthen you in your walk and faith as you grow in him.Your brother in Christ brentnz

Instead, Evolving in Monkey Town reflects well on what it means to forego religious certainty for a much richer, much deeper, much more doubt - ridden faith.

The soap opera section of the show opened up questions about faith, food, poverty, celebration, feast and deeper questions on indulgence and waste.

On the contrary, his letters are full of it, and reflect the life of a man of deep faith, and full of gratitude to God.

These two great forces maintain in Egypt a remarkable equilibrium without either destroying the other — perhaps because of the deep - rooted faith in religion which has been growing in the hearts of the Egyptians for hundreds of years — and education in Egypt continues to rest on the dual foundation of religious and secular studies.

He reserved his deepest faith not for America but for the world as he saw it, on the theological assumption that the ordinary and everyday — the most mundane elements of human existence — are a gift from God.

Elsewhere he remarks, drawing a calculated reference to the Apostle Paul's teaching on love, «the deepest truths of capitalism are faith, hope, and love» («Moral Sources of Capitalism,» Society, September / October 1981).

You have Christian faith when these basic attitudes are consciously and pre-eminently drawn from, based on, or focused by the teachings and example of Jesus whom we call the Christ or the body of the faithful that we call the Church, and when there is a deep commitment to living out these basic attitudes in your life.

Through the lens of the critics, one gets the impression that our songwriters «reflect» on deep themes of faith and existence and end up with nothing to say.

For his treatment of Southern Baptists Bloom depends on historian Bill J. Leonard and a Deep Faith character he calls the Reverend John Doe.

Edward Holloway, the founder of the Faith Movement, who died in March 1999, was amongst those deeper and subtler minds who early on recognised the passing of the «old synthesis» and the urgent need for a development of theology and doctrine to meet the needs of the times.

[2] I take to heart the deeper round of appropriation of the Council documents that Pope Benedict urged on the Church at the opening of the Year of Faith.

Unless one bleaches the debate of its living doctrinal substance — and the Rav explicitly states that requiring men of faith to bracket their deepest experiences constitutes unacceptable censorship — it inevitably raises questions about atonement, justification, faith and works, and so on.

In mine (Unitarian Universalism), members are expected to engage with their own beliefs and those of extant religious and spiritual traditions, ideally developing a «questioning faith» - One based not on doctrine or creed but on deep, sustained inquiry.

If one has never journeyed into the deep — prayed (which includes Scripture / theological study, faith sharing, adoration, spiritual formation / retreats, pilgramages, Mass, reconciliation, fasting, listening for God's voice, and more) on an ongoing fashion or done God's will (been obedient, patient, humble, unconditionally sacrificing, unselfish) to the extent that they understand what it means to be Catholic and God being your number one priority — that His Ways and those of His Church are not the ways of the world (trade vices for virtues) and that we are being called into communion with Him via love for Him and one another in our faith community and broader community — then it is no wonder some are lost or disillusioned.

But no, the hoary old liberal standard - bearer mawkishly burbled, «Pope Benedict XVI's first encyclical confirms him as a man of humour, warmth, humility and compassion, eager to share the love that God «lavishes» on humanity and display it as the answer to the world's deepest needs... This is a document that presents the most attractive face of the Catholic faith and could be put without hesitation into the hands of any inquirer.»

In her lovely chapter on «honoring the body» in Practicing Our Faith, Stephanie Paulsell writes about the deepest Christian beliefs concerning the human body.

So, deep in the sixth century, on the very eve of the second exodus, the voice of prophetism, summoning into a single moment of time the act of creation and the first exodus, proclaims the now old prophetic faith in the redemptive purpose of Yahweh's judgment:

The shared worldview of a faith - based school provides a margin of safety for discussions on a deeper level than is often possible in a public school where such a common perspective does not exist.

Whatever form it takes, the abuse of power by a Christian leader, whether in a local church setting or by someone with an international platform enhanced by TV exposure, can have a deep and corrosive impact on the faith of individual believers.

At Saturday's funeral for Sargent Shriver, son Mark said his father went to Catholic mass daily - even when on the road - and that Shriver's deep religious faith drove his work.

This theme has deep affinities with H. Richard Niebuhr's Faith on Earth: An Inquiry into the Structure of Human Faith, as well as Michael Polanyi's description of tacit knowledge and similar writings.

But now I want a purple Scottish thistle and a stalk of wheat entwined on my back for my beautiful roots deep in the land, a bright dogwood for my faith in the risen Christ, I want the names of my tinies and my beloved in my own handwriting on the palms of my hands (see?

Religion is so deep - seated a human interest that it can be snowed under but never completely stifled, and on every campus there is a nucleus of students — sometimes a good many, sometimes a small minority — who care about their faith.

In another study, churchwomen similarly revealed the division between their personal faith, prayer life and deepest concerns, on the one hand, and their involvement with pastor, parishioners and church activities, on the other.

The spiritually deprived missionary becomes a stunt man or woman bent on getting God and neighbor's attention by outrageous gestures of sin or sanctity, deep plunges of doubt, or Icarian flights of faith.

His notion of God and Christian faith is often based on deep ignorance as well as prejudice.

However, the deeper purpose of this section will be to look at the bearing of Christian faith both as truth and as power, regardless of denominational or ecclesiastical affiliations, on man's perennial problems of frustration and fear, unmerited suffering, sin and death.

If, on the other hand, «faith» means a deep - set trust that plays out in our actions, then this book is simply more motivation to reach out with Jesus» message... If proper theology is directly related to your eternal destiny you have a righteous fight on your hands.

The USCCB website invites us a little coyly to «Dive in deep into the Church's teachings»: this can be done by going to one of the site's most valuable pages, which gives links to statements on marriage by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Second Vatican Council, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Pontifical Council for the Family and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

They will not be the only ingredients — especially where public exams are involved, there will be Scriptural and other studies — but they will be what is remembered by young people who had their own deep and eager questions on major issues of faith and found they were not answered.

I am a total failuire on some levels (I am not rich)-- but my values are very rich and my faith is very deep — so much so I think I have developed habits of the vaues I have learned (they are my first choice in all situations — again this is still being tested).

That the official faith had made a deeper impress on them than it had on the Greco - Roman world before their irruption into that world is clear.

What became a breach, both wide and deep, between reason and faith can not be blamed simply on modernizing theologians and subjectivizing pietists, however.

This can be and has been interpreted in terms of fragmentation and alienation, but we need more than merely negative terms to describe what is going on here.16 The ground bass religion involves deep loyalties and even a kind of faith.