Sentences with phrase «suffer for their faith»

The Church has a narrative of the twentieth century that focuses on the hundreds of thousands who suffered for their faith.

Suffer for your faith.

With this gesture, the Vatican said, the Pope «desired to show his closeness, attention and prayer also to all those who suffer for their faith, in particular to Christians who are enduring persecution or limitations imposed upon their religious freedom.»

Consider devoting a few minutes each day, for 40 days, to learning about and praying for our brothers and sisters suffering for their faith.

Preventing more people suffering for their faith will require Christian values to be taken onto the offensive.

I am willing to «suffer for my faith» if the only other option is to compromise my faith; but I see no reason not to practice strategies to lessen the chance of unproductive suffering.

They should be glad to suffer for their faith if they are really part of that faith.

In sticking to his beliefs, staying true to his values and being willing to suffer for his faith, Doss ultimately earns the respect of his fellow soldiers.

He had told his people, «Let us rejoice that we have to suffer for our faith, because in doing so, we are preparing for martyrdom.»

Instead, they are known as «new martyrs,» Christians who have suffered for their faith not necessarily as individuals but rather in whole groups, whole communities, whole generations of believers.

Then they can go home and feel they have suffered for the faith.

If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have believed, i.e., have said that they believed (for no man can control the profession of another further than this; even if the other has endured, borne, suffered all for the Faith, an outsider can not get beyond what he says about himself, for a lie can be stretched precisely as far as the truth — in the eyes of men, but not in the sight of God), then he is a fool, and it is essentially indifferent whether he believes on account of his own and perhaps a widely held opinion about what good and upright people believe, or believes a Münchausen.

Not exact matches

In a study, conducted by a faith - based group no less, it was shown that ICU patients who knew they were being prayed for tended to suffer more complications and problems than those who were not or did not know.

The interesting thing is that to us, you are not only suffering a life time of delusions that there is not a God but if you factor in Pascals Wager you will suffer longer for the lack of Faith.

Philippians 3:8,9 «More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,»

The Christian tradition is full of those who have suffered death and persecution as a result of their faith and, in some cases, for no discernible reason whatsoever.

Not quite tallulah, all the other gods are man invented or possibly demonic.Every other idol god either mimics God and or requires a series of works to gain their favor.They are created by men to appease the inner knowledge of God, but all fall short of the creator God.You can not work your way into Gods good graces, you can only be saved by faith through grace.God alone has resolved the sin problem we all suffer from, in the selfless sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.It is by accepting Jesus» redemption for us that allows us to be reconciled with God.God bless

I suffered a terrible car accident... during 3 weeks I almost died «many times»... Now I can read a beautiful article like this one and agree with it... Believe me... no matter your faith, your fortune or whatever you may be involved with... on the face of death if you are human you will only care about your loved ones... you will remember about the moments you were happy together and dream they happen again... you will remember your childhood like you were 7 again... you will ask forgiveness and try to show your love, no matter how hard you are... In the face of death we realize that nothing more then our family matters... For the professor, once his life of arrogance reaches an end, he will then understand what is the meaning of family...

Not to mention, for those of you who have a belief and has ur faith in Traditional Christianity (along with any other religion); YOU WILL SUFFER the 7 last plagues of God, due to the mark of the beast that is about to be enforced by a resurrected ROMAN EMPIRE that is arising now in Europe unless you can repent and turn to the ONE and ONLY TRUE GOD!

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.

He said the Church would suffer for righteousness» sake and for faith in HIM.

For John Paul II's 1990 encyclical Redemptoris Missio, the Magna Carta of the New Evangelization, called for urgent evangelism among Christians who had fallen away from the practice of the faith, or had been poorly catechized, or, more likely, had suffered both maladies, the latter contributing to the formFor John Paul II's 1990 encyclical Redemptoris Missio, the Magna Carta of the New Evangelization, called for urgent evangelism among Christians who had fallen away from the practice of the faith, or had been poorly catechized, or, more likely, had suffered both maladies, the latter contributing to the formfor urgent evangelism among Christians who had fallen away from the practice of the faith, or had been poorly catechized, or, more likely, had suffered both maladies, the latter contributing to the former.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

If you are in the midst of suffering, if you find your faith withering, if you are questioning whether God is at work — or even present — as you wait for something in your life to become beautiful, this book will be a welcome reminder that God never stops his redemptive work... and that there is a time for everything under heaven.

It means to see the suffering we go through (whether we want it or not) from the perspective of Christ, Paul, Peter, and countless people who suffered for the sake of their faith and offered their suffering to God as a sacrifice on behalf of others.

Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death..»

and I praise god for all the abuse and suffering that I went through because that made my faith in him only stronger because in all my suffering, let see: loosing my mother when I was 2, sexual abuse from my father, beatings from my stepmother and father, homelessness, hunger, one bad marriage of 10 years with am alcoholic and abusive husband, cancer, removal of thyroid due to cancer, now I have auto ammume disease, financial loses.

In 2016, estimates for the number of Christians worldwide who have suffered some form of persecution for their faith range from 200,000 to 600,000.

I've written about some of my experiences before — meeting a six - year - old forced to memorize and recite the Westminster Confession at dinnertime, nearly losing my faith over the notion that God created the majority of the human population for no other purpose but to suffer in hell for eternity, and encountering the famed «Jonathan Edwards is My Homeboy» T - shirt in the midst of the so - called «Calvinist resurgence.»

Surely we shall not use the suffering of the others whose side we take as an excuse for evading the only way that is open for faith.

The Old Testament is full of stories of the people of God being punished and suffering for their association with other nations because it contaminated their faith.

We rarely have to suffer much for our faith, if indeed we have one.

List's conclusion that for his loved ones death was preferable to suffering or to the possibility of falling away from the faith provides a perverse, grotesque, yet not entirely unrecognizable extension of the piety that I knew as a child.

We stand for a need - based resettlement approach that treats all faiths equally... We must not allow fear to blind us to the suffering of those belonging to a faith different from ours.

We are to embrace the inevitability of suffering and martyrdom even as we cry out for justice and fight to rescue those whose lives are being threatened because of their faith in Christ.

The suffering of our sisters and brothers presses us first of all not into further faith explorations, but into mission — sharing in God's struggle for holiness and justice throughout the world.

Maciel, with the spirit of obedience to the Church that has always characterized him, has accepted this communiqué with faith, complete serenity, and tranquility of conscience, knowing that it is a new cross that God, the Father of Mercy, has allowed him to suffer and that will obtain many graces for the Legion of Christ and the Regnum Christi Movement.

They are profoundly oriented to public life, and they push for the kind of Christian faith that would help end massive suffering.

He added: «However, many Christians do feel marginalised, and they are meant to... the Bible tells us regularly that our faith will go against the grain, that we'll suffer for being a Christian.

By this person's statement it makes me think of them choosing the oppisite of what Moses chose as we see in Hebrews 11:24 - 26 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; 25Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; 26Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

To James: «In truth, as far as I've been able to tell, religion and faith have lead to more bloodshed than any other force in all of human history, and are currently responsible for an unwarranted amount of pain and suffering in the world».

For the Protestant, so deeply influenced by Luther's rediscovery of the Christian faith's historic core, there is not so much a continual repetition of the suffering of Christ as an eternal model, a «once for all» to which the Christian must look backwaFor the Protestant, so deeply influenced by Luther's rediscovery of the Christian faith's historic core, there is not so much a continual repetition of the suffering of Christ as an eternal model, a «once for all» to which the Christian must look backwafor all» to which the Christian must look backward.

In truth, as far as I've been able to tell, religion and faith have lead to more bloodshed than any other force in all of human history, and are currently responsible for an unwarranted amount of pain and suffering in the world.

This is more than suffering death for the faith.

For years Bishoy has suffered unimaginable hardship because of his courageous decision to demand a simple freedom that should be guaranteed, namely the right to change one's faith.

In PLO territories, Christian Arabs, who once had freedom under Israel, now suffer persecution, imprisonment, and death for their faith.

To demonstrate you suffered the needle for your faith?

He went on to praise those who've suffered for standing up to adversity: «I greatly admire the courage and faith of your flock who are an example to us all of faith quite literally under such grotesque and barbarous assault.»

To summarize our lesson for today: Paul reminds us that the vast Christian world needs to rise above divisive controversies and heal our differences; to adhere to the basic and undistorted gospel message («We are saved by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ»); to draw close to Christ and therefore to one another; and to follow our savior Christ, the Prince of Peace, in reaching out to the lost and alleviating the suffering of others.

«I would appreciate for those who care about Saeed and our family to give us time for rest and healing and to respect our privacy,» she told CT. «I will continue to pray for my husband's release and advocate for him as he suffers in an Iranian prison for his Christian faith.