Sentences with phrase «ordinary believers»

We ought to begin forming book clubs and literary circles, comprised of ordinary believers, reading and reflecting on important ideas and beautiful stories.

The Balkan Islamists supreme Ulema here are now viewed by ordinary believers as gangsters and enemies of the Muslims.

Contempt for the Catholic Church» and don't be fooled; the contempt is directed not just at Church leaders, but at ordinary believers as well» no matter how vulgar or bitter, is the last acceptable prejudice.

Politically aware theologians (and many ordinary believers) find themselves caught between trusting in this assurance — and so taking no political action — or taking action based on what seems to be a loss of faith in God.

These acts may seem small and limited, against a global background of persecution and terror, but every act of kindness and mercy, practiced on a wide scale, by ordinary believers, would be significant.

Hence the participant (an ordinary believer) is essentially different from the participated (Christ).

The result was a version of Christian origins that in many if not most points was at variance with the version accepted by the ordinary believer.

Christ said that ordinary believers would be able to «do the works I have been doing» (John 14:12)-- which would be an exaggerated promise if he was a super-being.

And Santorum's speech wasn't great, although it contained a promising theme about Obama's schoolmarmish snobbery that's full of contempt for even the conscience of the ordinary believer.

By 1980, however, the somewhat chastened magazine acknowledged he was not: «God is making a comeback Most intriguingly, this is happening not among theologians or ordinary believers — most of whom never accepted for a moment that he was in any serious trouble — but in the crisp, intellectual circles of academic philosophers, where the consensus had long banished the Almighty from fruitful discourse.»

If I ever write a critical comment, which refers to these beliefs, I never want to express hate against the ordinary believers, but solely against the wrong doctrine.

It's just a plea from an ordinary believer who longs for the word of God — not for mere head knowledge (I've been there, done that)-- but for the sustenance it brings and for the way it can reveal the God who can change me into the image of Jesus Christ and who can make that image permeate every facet of my being so that the gospel transforms how I live my life.

The ordinary believer is also familiar with several of the names of the twenty - five prophets mentioned in the Qur» an, not only because almost all of these names are used as proper names, but also because there are more or less complete descriptions of the lives of the prophets written in Malay, in Arabic script, and now also available in Indonesian in Latin characters, and in Javanese in Javanese script.

The third fundamental belief of Islam, belief in the Scriptures revealed by God, holds significance for the ordinary believer only insofar as it concerns the Qur» an.

The ordinary believer also speaks of fate, using it in the sense of recorded predestination, when he has in mind an unfavorable lot accorded to a person.