Sentences with phrase «only kind of faith»

I remember having similar feelings of emancipation, of starting over, from scratch when I first began to realize the evangelical faith I had inherited was not the only kind of faith there was.

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I'm sure there are many like me who believe that we have deep faith and call Jesus friend and teacher, but I have to say, I can only hope that my arms and hands could show that kind of mercy and love.

I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.

No sooner had I finished my piece for Faith magazine's last issue (in which, my readers may recall, I encouraged Polish Catholics to keep themselves at arms length from the secularised and indifferentist ethos of many English dioceses) than news emerged that one English bishop at least had done something to try to address the problem, and that he had in the process aroused the kind of secularist hostility which is, I strongly suspect, — certainly in this country — the only really reliable sign that the Catholic Church is being faithful to its vocation.

We do not just go to the world; rather, we bring with us beliefs which determine the kind of data we select.2 The traditional distinction between reason and faith in which the scientist uses only the cold light of reason while the theologian uses the light of faith is not strictly true.

The only «peace» that kind of thinking aka «faith» brings anyone, is the feeling of well - being brought upon by the relief that they are now validated as being better than others.

With and only with these men, and only on the basis of their affirmation of faith, could Christians and the church hold dialogue on matters of this kind.

Is he, then, here constructing an «ideal scene» in which the conditions for belief as based on «sight» are as favorable as they could possibly be, only to suggest that such belief is not, in the end, the most important or permanent kind of faith?

When some kind of sociopolitical activity is the important thing, faith in Christ is only a means.

If I were on trial, I would hope the jury is made up of people who only accept proof, not the kind that believe something on faith.

i wonder whih god will be more pleased with its slave — the one who murdered a man for his beliefs or the one who allowed his follower to die for his faith either way — god is a man made belief system that is only a few thousand years old — and in that time, no one single thing has killed more humans, than a man claiming to know the will of some kind of god Faith is good thing, faith in one's faith either way — god is a man made belief system that is only a few thousand years old — and in that time, no one single thing has killed more humans, than a man claiming to know the will of some kind of god Faith is good thing, faith in one's Faith is good thing, faith in one's faith in one's self.

Martyrs only produce more of their kind, more will be added to the faith if the Iranian government follows through with this.

His reply is that a faith of strong convictions is needed, because only faith of that kind will be able to inspire a movement for cultural and political change.

The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.

The question we are putting is a real one only if it is possible, at least in the individual case, for there to be an inculpable apostasy of that kind, at least supposed or taken to be apostasy, for, of course, the man in question would remain a believer, because in possession of the «infused habitus of faith», but he would be a believer who was mistaken in thinking himself not to be one.

What kind of message does it send if we pressure privately owned businesses — which cater to people of all kinds of faiths and backgrounds — to only acknowledge our own beliefs?

But faith will never be modified; it will remain as it was prior to the creation of first human, during all these generation, it is now and it will be till the end... whether a human accepts it or deny it... these accepting and denying comes under «free will» that is given only to the human kind among the entire creation...

«Only a minority of Protestant adults evidence the kind of «integrated, vibrant, and life - encompassing faith congregations seek to develop,» the study reports.

Nietodarwin wants freedom of religion only for atheists not for any other kind of faith.

Your comments are kind of funny... my whole point is that I am not the only person who knows the truth about how women are treated in the faith community — ask thousands of people and you will find out.

For them «faith» is a steady setting of the will on God in commitment or surrender; and the only kind of love that is truly «religious» is the intent of the will on another's good.

I would rather have this kind of faith in God, than placing my faith in educated scholars who claim superior, accurate Bible knowledge, since only God CAN know their hearts and true intentions.

For such people metaphor not only promises more than it can deliver, but its promises are too often grounded on false consciousness, so that a loss of faith in it is the beginning of wisdom — perhaps the philosopher Richard Rorty's discovery (bad news for Haeckel and his kind) that out there there is really no «out there.»

They are not ultimately autonomous... but they have a relative autonomy, an autonomy always threatened by demonic forces precisely because God wills to preserve here a sphere for the free decision of faith which is the only kind of victory he wills to have....

Gnosticism is a world - opposing form of faith in quest of a salvation that can be reached not by an eschatological reversal of the world or by a mystical dissolution and transformation of the world but only by the most radical kind of world - negation.

In the present book I have spoken only incidentally of the «case» for prayer; my purpose here is to make suggestions about the actual practice of prayer, including the question of its effectiveness, the various kinds of praying in which we may engage, the significant exercise of private prayer and of public prayer, the way in which the Lord's Supper (or Holy Communion or Eucharist call it what you will) sums up all our praying, and finally the point of prayer in the total context of Christian faith itself.

From the opposite viewpoint, from the left, Jaspers and Ogden can argue, in effect that faith - knowledge is only a special kind of historic knowledge.

Thirdly, there is knowledge of Jesus of Nazareth which is significant only in the context of specifically Christian faith, i.e. knowledge of him of a kind dependent upon the acknowledgement of him as Lord and Christ.

He sees with absolute clarity that the most essential repudiation lying at the heart of the whole deconstructive enterprise is a theological repudiation, and thus, as he feels, the one kind of faith (in unfaith) may be countered only by another kind of faith.

The only way you can rank players is by the positions they play not this kind of random grading which is done in bad faith aimed at denigrating some of our loyal players who have done such a fantastic job for the club this season.

All kinds of theories have been expounded as to why Leicester are in freefall especially since only one of last season key performers, N'Golo Kante, has moved on: manager Claudio Ranieri has lost the faith of his players; confidence is wafer - thin; workrate has plummeted; too many players are living on their laurels.

Only 30 per cent had no objections of any kind to state funding for faith schools.

However, according to medical research this kind of spiritual approach is effective only when combined with a sincere faith in a powerful but at the same time loving and carrying God.

While very few online dating services Christians use are exclusively â $ œChristianâ $, this kind of format allows one to meet and date only those of like - minded faith.

The film failed to repeat the performance of its kinder, gentler (if equally tin - earned) faith - based counterpart I Can Only Imagine — which is still holding strong at No. 4, by the way — opening with a splat at No. 12 with $ 2.6 million on 1,693 screens, a dismal $ 1,553 per - theater average.

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This indicated to me that she was terrified of what it would mean to her conservative Christian faith that mankind could be powerful enough to make the kind of changes to the Earth that only God was supposedly allowed to make (Noah's flood, for example).