Sentences with phrase «placed upon faith»

Hence, a greater burden was placed upon faith in revelation and a widespread reaction against philosophical subtleties set in.

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That's why there is such a taboo against atheism, trusting intelligence and questioning dogma, and why faith has such a high value placed upon it.

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.

The openhearted observer of Islam in the West can discern the shape of hope in the increasing willingness of people of the two faiths to come together for dialogue and consultation on the mutual problems they face; in the reevaluation of Islam forced upon Muslims by their minority status in many places; and in the development of the concept of international law and universal human rights.

There still remain places and occasions when a designated person of faith is called upon to offer an invocation, a benediction, grace before a meal, a prayer of dedication for a new building or a blessing for a bike race.

People of faith and even of non-faith are all living as rented forms within collective formations ever rising and even falling with the tidal flurries regarding the many societal accolades of a changing tides bantered momentums riding ever continuing laments to rise and then fall upon socialisms shorelines to be so aligned with subjectivities of placed regionalized variant findings dispersed yet rationed movements in the ever to so be done fluidic moments by people of faith and also of non-faith.

All of which is to say that there is a real choice to be made here (and making it will surely be the heaviest burden placed upon the Christian who tries to live his faith).

We are personally implicated in the suffering and challenged by the subsequent leap of faith — rather than being concerned merely with the intellectual interpretations others place upon that suffering and faith.

Building his confidence before God upon his faith, repentance and other acts of obedience, he places them in Christ's stead as his grounds of right to the promise and so he demonstrates himself to be of the works of the law and so be under the curse (Colquhoun, A Treatise).

He said that the common thesis of the book was «that modern Christian and secular perfectionism, which places a premium upon non-participation in conflict, is a very sentimentalized version of the Christian faith and is at variance with the profoundest insights of the Christian religion.

But where folks try and place upon themselves some other way (burden) to Heaven besides Jesus, I must remind them of how Scripture says that are saved by grace alone, through faith alone.

27 But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words.

As a result, the high valuation placed upon the concrete and the temporal both by Hartshorne and biblical faith calls for a reorientation in fundamental attitudes which men can not easily achieve.

In this context he praised Pena's emphasis upon dialogue between those of different religions which necessarily «places one's own faith in parenthesis» and discusses the «cultural consequences of foundational religious decisions.»

For the initial discussion concerning the theological relevance of a new quest has taken place to a large extent in terms of an exegesis of the evangelists» intention: the evangelists undoubtedly insisted upon the relevance of history for faith.

Even though Christians must reject the Modern idea that we human beings are the «makers» of history, the covenantal basis of our faith places upon humankind a participatory responsibility for the unfolding of God's purposes.

It seems not a little strange that the faith which is most insistent upon the principle of Ahimsa and will not take the life of the most humble living thing, makes a definite place for putting an end to one own life.

Great emphasis is placed upon the Bible as the origin of our faith.

It is interesting to reflect upon why Paul places these terms in just the order in which they stand — faith, hope, love.

And Chadli's brace duly repaid the faith placed upon him in the 4 - 0 defeat of the Hoops served to reiterate his eye for goal, but the new found self - belief in his game shows what patience and the right management can achieve.

My first collection of stories, Faith, consisted of fourteen stories that fell within the 3500 - 6000 word length and, at least structurally, obeyed most of the conventions the fiction writing texts of the time recommended, as each narrative hinges upon a protagonist in a vividly rendered place who faces a conflict and makes a discovery.

Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time, Greer - madly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing for an ambition that she can't quite place - feels her inner world light up.

When you try to use the word «faith» to argue for a point that should be (if it were really true) even more important (the idea of a soul and eternal life) than any question of science, and yet place a lesser burden of proof upon it, you are really only exposing your own naïveté.

It is imposed today (with some affinity modifications) upon all marrying here, regardless of personal faith or place or manner of solemnisation.

In acknowledgement of and in return for their expertise, experience, and judgement, which they are expected to apply in delivering affordable, accessible, up - to - date, reassuring, and reliable services, and on the understanding that they will curate and update their knowledge and methods, train their members, set and enforce standards for the quality of their work, and that they will only admit appropriately qualified individuals into their ranks, and that they will always act honestly, in good faith, putting the interests of clients ahead of their own, we (society) place our trust in the professions in granting them exclusivity over a wide range of socially significant services and activities, by paying them a fair wage, by conferring upon them independence, autonomy, rights of self - determination, and by according them respect and status.