Sentences with phrase «standing at faith»

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Milosz had the courage to expose his struggle in all its intensity; thus the readers with whom he shared his troubles and doubts can trust, or at least consider with appropriate seriousness, his decision to stand within faith's orbit.

I cintend that the bible also calls us to do the same thing — it calls us to action and then says when we have donr everything we can and there is nothing else we are to stand in faith that it will work out — of course i paraphrase — but wht do people think all christians do is sit on their butts and pray and look pie eyed at the sky - this christian worked her butt of on the streets - and look at Mother Thresa - and other christians working for humanity all over the world - i think athiests have the wrong idea about chtistians...

Buckley was never a professional Catholic, in the sense of someone who made his living from the fact of his faith, and his standing as a Catholic commentator may have declined when, in 1961, National Review responded to John XXIII's encyclical on Christianity and social progress, Mater et Magistra, with an unsigned quip: «Mater si, Magistra no» (though most reports now ascribe it to a hotshot young writer at the magazine named Garry Wills.)

With regard to another post regarding faith... I have seen my preemie child struggling for life... I have held the hand of an old person as they slipped from life to death... I have stood vigil in the room of a man of faith as over 40 friends and family crammed into a room sharing pain and suffering as he slipped away suffering from cancer at a young age.

That «something,» I suggest, is the vibrant, New Testament - style faith found in the Catholic Church in Africa, whose leaders, at Synod 2014, challenged the leaders of German Catholicism to stand firm in the «faith once delivered to the saints» [Jude 1:3].

If everyone agreed to contribute by their own sweat to the gain of the rest of the world rather than standing at the altar lecturing how God will show us «non-believers» rapture, suffering and pain is then worth wondering at that moment, how many other faiths at that moment are saying their God will do the same to you?

Standing under the word in prayer while waiting for the clarification of the Spirit will satisfy neither those who argue for «justice now» nor those for whom the faith itself is at stake in this issue — and those people will necessarily continue their professions and protestations.

And when a Roman executioner approached Perpetua with a sword, her last words before collapsing were aimed at her Christian companions: «Stand fast in the faith, and love you all one another and do not let our sufferings be a stumbling block to you.»

It is the faith «that there is really only One Power which, while at times it may permit the sham powers of the world to accomplish something in opposition to it, never permits such accomplishment to stand.»

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

That the Lord is nigh, that the believer is standing at the end of time and history — is only a way of expressing the ultimacy and the certainty of the truth and reality which the Christian confesses in faith.

You do not understand everything the Christian church teaches, you say, and some things that you think you do understand you do not believe, but you at least see enough in the kind of faith and life for which Christianity stands so that you would like to do something about it.

Many of the Islamic faith may hate us, but at least we know where they stand on the issue.

A renewal of faith and Christian culture may come in many forms, even as barbarians stand at the gate, as they always have and always will.

Standing at the Lord's table on All Saints» Sunday, I call to supper all of those who've gone before us in the Faith.

I could not rid myself of the notion that when I stood at the synagogue podium for my bar mitzvah, when I declared myself a member of the Jewish faith, I was lying, betraying my deepest sense of self.

If your faith is so weak that it can not stand up to being looked at from an objective, historical, evidence based perspective, then this article is the least of your problems.

A complete atheist stands on the last rung but one before absolute faith [he may or may not step higher], but an indifferent man has no longer any faith at all, nothing but an ugly fear, and that only on rare occasions, if he is a sentimental man.»

At the very threshold of Christian character stands belief in God as that faith comes to us through Jesus Christ.

These suggest a vision which revealed Jesus in his heavenly glory at the right hand of the divine throne, not unlike that seen by the martyr Stephen when he looked up to heaven and «saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand».47 So Goguel comments, «When we consider the part played by the faith in the resurrection in Paul's religious life and thought as a result of Christ's appearance to him, we see that most essential to his faith was not the feeling that Jesus had returned to the environment of his life on earth preceding his passion but a belief in his glorification, i.e. in his transition to life in heaven where death has no more dominion over him.»

All the other actions described — be alert, stand firm in the faith, be strong — are summed up at the end, that every action is to be done with love.

«The history of American evangelicalism is critical in understanding how many things Clinton stands for that contradict the deeply held values of politically engaged evangelicals since the 1960s,» said Kristin Du Mez, a historian at Calvin College and the author of a forthcoming book about Hillary Clinton's faith.

The sum of all of this is the substantial ecology of the faith of the Christian church at this moment — the moment when, with this record of the gospel of Jesus Christ before us, we stand up to preach.

So at minimum it is reasonable to pursue the fecund thought that Rawls» freestanding liberalism actually stands on an act of faith.

Would it not be better that they should stand still at faith, and that he who stands should take heed lest he fall?

The merman has lifted her up in his arms, Agnes twines about his neck, with her whole soul she trustingly abandons herself to the stronger one; he already stands upon the brink, he leans over the sea, about to plunge into it with his prey — then Agnes looks at him once more, not timidly, not doubtingly, not proud of her good fortune, not intoxicated by pleasure, but with absolute faith in him, with absolute humility, like the lowly flower she conceived herself to be; by this look she entrusts to him with absolute confidence her whole fate — and, behold, the sea roars no more, its voice is mute, nature's passion which is the merman's strength leaves him in the lurch, a dead calm ensues — and still Agnes continues to look at him thus.

When we stand before Christ at the Bema, the question will be «Was your faith profitable or dead and useless?»

I sincerely hope this can be conveyed emphatically at the upcoming synod, and I thank every pastor and bishop who stands as a role model for evangelizing, preaching the truth, and promoting the beauty and richness our faith has to offer.

People need to cultivate the ability to stand back enough to gain aesthetic and intellectual «distance» between themselves and what they see in the media, and then, from a critical perspective informed by their own faith, look at what the media are doing and saying.

But if we look at the beliefs of Jesus and the apostles as they are mirrored in the New Testament, we find that they see themselves as standing not so much at the beginning as at the culmination of a tradition of faith.

It is precisely in order to discover and apply this saving and transforming Faith that we must, at this crucial instant, take a positive stand on the spiritualizing and humanizing value of social totalization, and thus reaffirm our sense of the Species on a new plane.

To approach the cross with too much faith, to stand in its shadow with certain confidence of Easter light, is finally to confront no cross at all, only the unrepentant echoes of our religious noise.

Since the Christian belief system is forced upon people at the moment of birth and since the majority of people born in the Western world are born into the Christian faith then it stands to reason that most atheists would be former Christians.

Most of us have assumed ours to be the normative position, «that we stand at the point where the true understanding of Christian faith is located, and that others indulge in interesting cultural or geographical deviants from our norm.»

We are glad to have been active in, and witnesses to, gradual and in some cases dramatic improvement in areas of Church life where we stood frm: most Catholic youth events now have the sort of liturgical and devotional style that at one time was almost unique to the annual FAITH summer gathering, and the new generation of priests has a vigorous approach to catechesis and to promoting the Church's message on marriage and family life.

I stand over his bed at night with my hand on his forehead and pray that if he strays from the faith that he will always find his way back home.

It was hyperbole, Eugene would say that is what the H stood for in his name, but what he was getting at is that spiritual leadership is one of the best places to hide your sin because within your faith community people often give their leaders the benefit of the doubt.

So, all that to say... I continue to stand, and I'll stand on the truth / revelation that s / he speaks to me; as I've matured in this shaky thing called faith, I'm amazed at / by the kindness of God.

Never one to do things halfway, Hyung Goo stood up at a meeting of the college - age fellowship, announced his renunciation of the Christian faith, and walked out.

If one will look a little more closely, I have not much doubt that in the whole world one will not find a single analogy (except a later instance which proves nothing), if it stands fast that Abraham is the representative of faith, and that faith is normally expressed in him whose life is not merely the most paradoxical that can be thought but so paradoxical that it can not be thought at all.

The key question facing Protestants, he once wrote, is «whether the original Catholic doctrine concerning the Church, as it stood in universal authority through all ages before the Reformation, is to be received and held still as a necessary part of the Christian faith, or deliberately rejected and refused as an error dangerous to men's souls at war with the Bible?»

You mentioned the day on the National Mall, well I remember the service that was held at the National Cathedral and I remember all the different Faiths standing together.

God's triune immutability stands at the very forefront of Augustine's pilgrimage of faith.

On the contrary, look at how loyal wenger stayed to his players, ozil, ramsey, giroud, walcott, wilshere and it is not blind faith, it is faith in their abilities in the face of harsh fans and constant media bashing, but he stands there to take the punches instead of his players.

«As it stands now, families have to navigate an underground network of unlicensed midwives and take it on faith that their midwives are qualified and skilled at attending out - of - hospital births.»

Core values of faith, family and liberty are at the heart of what the American - Jewish community is about and what all New Yorkers stand for.

When you choose to put your faith at the foreground of your dating, it's important that you know where you stand on some of the bigger issues.

If they don't have anything marked at all or if they are open to Buddhists, Hindu, Christian - LDS / Mormons, insert religion of your choice here, then you'll have a pretty good gauge on where they stand in matters of faith.

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He's the stand - out performer in a meticulous, slick and surprisingly amusing thriller that picks relentlessly at your faith in human nature.