Sentences with phrase «powerful witness»

It was a powerful moment, but I can imagine a more powerful witness: we could skip the split.

When such persons find their voices, what powerful witnesses!

Yet his fiction makes powerful witness against the soggy spirituality of our age, confronting us with a Cross which demands our disbelief in all sentimental substitutes.

The most powerful witness I spoke to was Susan Conroy, who worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta — traveling there as a twenty - one - year - old volunteer in 1986.

They can become powerful witnesses to participatory theonomy - to the truth that makes us genuinely free, and which in that sense is natural to us, despite the painful fact that it does not come naturally.

In the latest newspaper interview he said: «Now, it is more important than ever to examine our faith, have a healthy spiritual leader and give powerful witness to the faith.

If we identify God with the transcendent and primordial Creator, then isn't the fullest and most powerful witness to God present in Second Isaiah and in The Book of Job?

Of course Mother Teresa and her sisters make a powerful witness to Christ by word and deed, and we would not be at all surprised if thousands who are listed as Hindu or Muslim came in their last days and hours to know something of the One who inspires and sustains this work of love unqualified.

While the church is a powerful witness in the political arena in many places, Mindolo participants insisted that my view of the prophetic African church was too rosy.

Their powerful witness can revitalize our own faith.

A coming together of those two churches might have encouraged further union: it would have been a powerful witness and could have stimulated many other necessary changes.

When someone hears how the Lord has worked in your life, they are receiving a powerful witness.

If through any truth it may possess, or any discussion of its shortcomings the book may contribute to the development in the Church of a more powerful witness to the Good News which our world so deeply needs, I am content.

I believe that truth spoken in love is a powerful witness that can change hearts, communities, nations, and the world.

He was a powerful witness for his ideas.»

The shameful history of the treatment of gays and lesbians, the hateful speech, violence, and exclusion from churches and other communities sits there, bearing its powerful witness, tipping the scales.

Judaism stands forth to this day as a powerful witness to our need to wait in hope until the time is ripe for the messianic age, which to Jewish faith has not yet arrived.

Yet it would be a mistake to regard Dietrich as simply a culture warrior, for that would reduce his powerful witness to partisan politics.

It is a powerful witness to the sacrality of the Liturgy to be in a crowded St. Peter's and experience the silence after Holy Communion.

Before his death on July 19, his last months were a powerful witness to faith and hope.

«The law of capital punishment,» one writer has concluded after reviewing relevant biblical passages, «must stand as a silent but powerful witness to the sacredness of God - given life» («Christianity and the Death Penalty,» by Jacob Vellenga, in Bedau, op.

It can also be the basis of a powerful witness to all humanity for improving the lives of our fellow human beings and for standing against the immoralities and idolatries that harm and degrade us.

Sometimes such actions are powerful witness to churches solidarity with people, breaking its isolation.

The process by which the Church becomes really incarnated in every human group, society, culture and sharing, humble service and powerful witness to the Spirit of the Lord at work in the universe and dwelling in our heart.

Popieluszko makes him a powerful witness of a suffering and liberating God and challenges us to live likewise.

His efforts are a powerful witness to the belief that every child deserves the best education possible.»

The story of finding your way to your son, through HIS son, gives me goosebumps and is such a powerful witness to the faithfulness and goodness of God.