Sentences with phrase «than faith for»

There is no other prerequisite than faith for the fruitful reception of the sacrament, because the sacrament is itself the public act in which Christ bestows his grace on the ungodly.

Not exact matches

Faith Popcorn has been helping companies see what trends they will come up against for more than 40 years.

And if tomorrow's job report shows no signs of real wage growth (which is what economists predict it won't), the Fed's case for a rate hike will start to look more faith - based than empirically driven.

Disney shareholders lost their case but the final ruling set a new bar for directors when approving these kinds of exit packages: «If a director acts with conscious disregard — in other words, a looking away — rather than a deliberate intent to violate his duties, he can still be held liable for acting in bad faith,» plaintiffs» attorney Steven G. Schullman told the New York Times back in 2006.

Munger has since said that he thinks the adoption of electric cars will take longer than many think, but he said he has plenty of faith in Chuan - Fu, and he and Buffett have been rewarded for that.

Cruz and his wife, Heidi, mingled with the crowd, delivered joint remarks for more than an hour, prayed with the audience for some 90 minutes more and took questions on everything from foreign policy to faith to economic issues.

It takes more than a leap of faith for a woman to jettison her former career and buy a clothing franchise.

You have to be creative in your use of limited resources, have the ability to catch a potential investor's eye - especially if you're looking further than their circle of friends and family for funding - and see things that other people can't, including having faith in your own vision when others may not.

However, after announcing that their sales for the second quarter had risen by more than 20 percent investors had solid grounds to place faith in the stock which has seen numerous ratings upgrades over the last few months.

«The recent blind faith some Republicans have shown toward free trade actually represents more of an aberration than a hallmark of true American conservatism,» Lighthizer wrote in a Washington Post piece voicing his support for Trump in 2011.

I'm imagining that the turnover rate in «startup land» is high because unless there's a decent paycheck or public recognition, it's tough find the wherewithal to continue on that initial leap of faith for longer than 2.5 years.

If it's all just alternate explanations that work with the evidence, I would much prefer people change their theory to meet the facts (as the Dalai Lama, for instance, recommends) than keep going with some simplistic idea of «faith».

Because God's purpose for the path often has more to do with the process — growing our faith, making us more dependent on him, and more loving / forgiving towards ourselves and each other — than the actual destination.

Yes, I whole heartedly dissagree with even the existence of the Catholic Church (though they are good for a laugh), something my Catholic wife and I have frequent conversations about (interestingly enough, I know WAY more about the tennets of her faith than she does).

The treatment of other religions by Islam must be judged by a simple test: How did the Muslim rulers behave for more than a thousand years, when they had the power to «spread the faith by the sword»?

I'll attack Romney's faith because Jesus himself said that not only is it harder for a rich man to get into heaven than to get a camel through the eye of a needle but that what you do to the least of us you do to Jesus.

There is no basis for your conclusion in this regard thus you have faith that Atheism will produce a better and more peaceful world than any god based ism.

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.

Trying to prove the things faith concerns itself with are akin to looking for a point further north than the north pole.

I personally commend the young man for stepping aside rather than compromising his faith!

So it would be hard for jewish gentiles to be holier than thou in regards to the jewish faith.

I'm speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.

This led to a big split among those that latched on to the words that having faith in Jesus is what is needed to get to heaven vs words that say things like how it's easier to get a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into heaven or help the poor.

Thanks to Harry Knox for sharing a view shared by many more Americans of faith than we know through the popular press, and thanks to CNN.com for hosting this forum and bringing more voices into the mix.

Nor was their faith without learning or indifferent to their pluralistic culture; on the contrary, their scholarship and concern for effective proclamation seemed far more profound than the blurred lines of Canberrra.

There could be very little better than for our soldiers to voluntarily participate in an event that promotes and encourages faith in Jesus Christ.

Some of the good theological quotes did make it into the closing scene but no sooner had the credits started to roll than viewers were assaulted by «There's A Place For Us» by Carrie Underwood about «faith» and «love» and the line «we can be the kings and queens of anything if we believe» to make sure viewers walked out feeling good about themselves.

If Rick's faith were first and formost, he would start his own ministry rather than running for office!

Is it so wrong of me to have faith that only one person believes in the drivel that he's posting rather than think that another person a) actually thinks that chad is making good points and good enough points to post and b) go to the 62nd page of an almost defunct article for a conversation that has nothing to do with themselves other than to cheer on a stupid post?

There are those who think that the Christian religion is what we should smile at rather than hold fast, for this reason, that, in it, not what may be seen, is shown, but men are commanded faith of things which are not seen.

I am happy that the writer had the choices that she did... She is also free to decide whether or not she is a Catholic... She however, took an available medication for a health problem... most Catholic facilities recognize such health problems and allow for that treatment... I am completly puzzled, though, that she would not want other Catholics to be able to choose differently than she did... for those people who wish to use contraceptive services and medication, options are open to them... I am not Catholic, did not grow up in a faith based family, and don't know whether a God exists or not... However, to leave a relgious group with no option but to contradict its own tenets is an attempt by those who don't believe in those tenents to mock them, certainly, but more to erode them... this seems the aim of many and when those folks operate from inside the government... that intrusion is an overreach of the govenrment...

all things were created by nothing with nothing and for nothing... that takes more faith than i have... i prefer to believe in Jesus Christ — the one and only who rose from the dead — the most astounding historical fact ever recorded; Christians don't have all the answers but as the author Don Miller noted: «I can no more understand the complexity of God than the pancakes I made for breakfast can understand the complexity of me»

The faith has «tried» to stay the same for 2000 years, but, just as Galileo and heliocentrism struggled to show that reality was clearly different than what bare faith could handle, this same scene will be repeated a hundred thousand times more, as real life overtakes 2000 - year - old literature.

To Adam who said that «Christians are no better than Islamists»: Well when a Christian tries to share his faith with you, and you reject him, all he does is go away and pray for you.

Certainly enough for me to have demonstrated that your belief system is based on a vastly higher degree of faith / improbability than mine

It takes more faith to believe that than to believe in the One who created special designs for life out of the chaos and has given us the internal desire to have meaning beyond our physical bodies.

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,»

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

More Christians died for their faith in the twentieth century than in all the years of Christendom combined.

My comments are more for those who think they know more on morality and faith than the Church Jesus started 2012 years ago.

It is the DEFINITION of «faith in something despite the presence of all evidence to the contrary» Indeed, it takes FAR more faith to be an atheist, than a Christian for you are believing that which is impossible to demonstrate..

I care for the elderly and have also seen this when people die... the people I have taken care of cared more about the people they were leaving and seeing those who had died before them, than any need to be told God was there... people with faith KNOW He is

Christians can not in good faith look to Jewish authorities for the normative meaning of the word of God any more than Jews can in good faith look for it to Christian authorities.

Catholics believe in the following, «For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved» than that of JESUS (Acts of the Apostles, iv.12); We probably can agree that we are united by Jesus in our faith and can set aside our other differences.

Over the past 100 years hundreds of thousands of Christians have been put to death for nothing more than their faith during the Stalin purges, Chinese communist revolution, and hot spots all over the globe.

It takes more faith to believe in a universe evolving from nothing or from eternal matter than to believe in a loving Creator, existing outside the limit of time, who gave us this specially designed & tuned universe to explore and to learn about caring for one another even through the midst of difficult experiences.

And I think all atheists everywhere should revel in the mercenary nature of Christmas (now far more Jewish / East Indian in its execution than anything else) and its exposure of «faith» as a conduit for greed, judgment, and repression.

Faith is nothing more than a belief in something for which you have no evidence.

There are many of us who are weaker than we realize, and in an effort to be heard and enjoy some personal accolades as a leader of the faith, are; but only to look foolish for narrow - mindedness, cultural irrelevance, or logically flawed expressions of theology.

It would seem, Follow of Christ, that the creator has a lot more to answer for than simply «having faith» in his so - called grand plan when his ultimate creation has already been made.