Sentences with phrase «takes eyes of faith»

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Religion asks you to close your eyes and take a leap of faith, science asks you to open your eyes and build a bridge!!!

At a time when their colleagues who spoke for the church were conspicuously incapable of giving the faith a good account in the eyes of the learned, the Vanderbilt academics preferred to dissociate themselves from their religious leaders rather than take up their cause as allies and persuade them that sound scholarship was God's good servant too.

Atheism offers nothing to me, it never has and never will, it doesn't make me feel good or comfort me, it's not there for me when I'm sick or ill, it won't intervene in my times of need or protect me from hate, it doesn't care if I fail or succeed, it won't wipe the tears from my eyes, it does nothing when I have no where to run, it won't give me wise words or advice, it has no teaches for me to learn, it can't show me what's bad or nice, it's never inspired or excited anyone, it won't help me fulfill all my goals, it won't tell me to stop when I'm having fun, it's never saved one single soul, it doesn't take credit for everything I achieve, it won't make me get down on bended knee, it doesn't demand that I have to believe, it won't torture me for eternity, it won't teach me to hate or despise others, it won't tell me what's right or wrong, it can't tell nobody not to be lovers, it's told no one they don't belong, it won't make you think life is worth living, it has nothing to offer me, that's true, but the reason Atheism offers me nothing is because I've never asked it to, Atheism offers nothing because it doesn't need to, Religion promises everything because you want it to, You don't need a Religion or to have faith, You just want it because you need to feel safe, I want to feel reality and nothing more, Atheism offers me everything that Religion has stolen before.

(CNN)- After years of keeping quiet about his Mormon faith, Mitt Romney's campaign thrust his church life into the national eye Thursday night, as a handful of Mormons took to the Republican National Convention's stage to deliver moving testimonials about the Republican presidential nominee's role as a member and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints.

It took a real effort on my part to keep calling myself to the truths of my faith, which says that however he was behaving, in God's eyes he was just as precious as my little girl, and that's a hard thing to accept when you're having to deal with the loss of somebody that's so dear to you.

knowledge is what makes me a non believer vs believer who takes much on faith and dies with hope of an afterlife in there eyes as they turn grey and lifeless!

It is this intensity of creative faith, combined with an eye for radiant colour and a fearless determination to take influences from a disparate range of sources (he based a series of paintings on the work of Russian composer Shostakovich), which takes his best work beyond retrogressive abstract expressionism.