Sentences with phrase «point of faith»

The whole point of faith is that you have despite not having the subject of your faith proved to you.

Fundamentalists treat Holy Scripture as the starting point of their faith tradition when in fact it is the product: it gathered its authority only after the tradition had started.

Fifteen years out: six cardinal points of faith, one man's sketch of Christian believing.

And on the essential point of faith, the composite narrative is at one with itself; consenting or disapproving, honored or aggrieved, it is Yahweh and Samuel who are directly responsible for Saul's quasi-kingship and David's ultimate creation of full monarchy.

The Eucharist must always be the central point of our faith but, as Scripture tells us, we are called to be disciples and witness to Christ in our world today, not simply at the Eucharistic Table but by being Christ in our world and seeing Christ in others.

And this is precisely what we do when we claim that Jesus is the Christ, meaning that it is he, in the main thrust of his life and message, that serves as the center point of our faith and the focus to our understanding of the meaning and purpose of life.

Well, yes, but that rather misses the whole point at issue, which is that the ban on contraception has created a crisis of conscience among Catholics who on every other point of faith and morality are obedient servants of the Church but who, as I put it, «find themselves unable to conform their beliefs or practices to Humanae Vitae.»

This factor causes it to be suspect from the vantage point of faith.

The grand equalizer was the universal experience of unbelief, which O'Connor considered the necessary starting point of faith.

the whole point of the faith is that Jesus uniquely does what no one else can or does.

The problem with many scientists is that they follow their scientific knowledge religiously, to the point of faith.

The point of faith is to believe when the facts are against the evidence.

Sometimes I wonder why I still bother to try... but then I remember that's the point of faith.

The Rev. David L. Norgard, who is openly gay and is chairman of the national church's Standing Commission on Evangelism, says, «I'm thoroughly convinced, and hold it as a point of faith, that in the long run people are turned off by a church that excludes.»

It is noteworthy that the «point of faith» is not, as is traditionally the case, about revealed doctrine but about strategy based on a reading of culture and social dynamics.

I understand «Pascal's Wager» very well, but it is taken from a philosophical (man's earthly) point of view, mine is not... mine is taken from a point of faith.

When the evangelists of the New Testament and their successors pointed to history as the starting point of their faith and of their understanding of the world it was internal history that they indicated.

Barth also says that the theologian's task is to try to discover what status of religion is from the point of faith.

The whole point of our faith is that it's not about us.

But his words were bound to be misunderstood in Rome, as well as distorting his teaching in a way that for generations has allowed Catholics anxious to challenge the magisterium on some point of faith and morals to claim that they have Newman on their side.

That is the whole point of faith.

While the starting point of faith is belief in God as the Creator, the Benefactor, and the only object of worship, it must be recognized that God is also the Legislator.

What is the point of this faith of which I am not aware, of which I can at most believe that I have it?

But if it is a point of our faith under attack, it merits a vocal and clear response.

I agree with you that science is about the «how», but I disagree with you on the point of faith.

I find he's a charming guy, who speaks his mind, and even though I think he misses the point of faith in Jesus (possibly because of all the confusion there is abou it).

They somewhat argue that the journey of faith doesn't really begin until a person recognizes the existence of God, but even then, this point of faith is long before a person actually believes in Jesus for eternal life and becomes what we might call a «Christian.»

I don't know, I always fealt like the point of faith was to have faith.