Sentences with phrase «through conviction of»

Probably through the conviction of your brother or sister.

We must conclude this chapter with a look at what changes came upon the early Church, through its conviction of salvation through the Cross of Christ, in relation to the social environment.

He actually tries to through conviction of our hearts.

Not exact matches

She has learned what it takes to turn a hunch into a massive business: a clear vision, yes, and the conviction to see it through, of course, but also an appetite for risk, a willingness to make changes on the go and nerves of highly tempered steel.

«Of course, we need investments in order to see our ideas through and asking for that investment requires a fearlessness and a conviction in what you're trying to do.

These forward - looking statements include statements about our expectations regarding our high conviction that our «Winning Together» plan unveiled this morning will improve guest experience and drive sales and profitability for our Tim Hortons restaurant owners; our expectations regarding the growth potential for each of our three brands; and our expectations and belief that through our focus on enhancing guest satisfaction and franchisee profitability, we will create value for all of our stakeholders for many years to come.

Considering the possibility that maybe we're a rare civilization who made it past the Great Filter through a freak occurrence makes him feel even more conviction about SpaceX's mission: «If we are very rare, we better get to the multi-planet situation fast, because if civilization is tenuous, then we must do whatever we can to ensure that our already - weak probability of surviving is improved dramatically.»

Early - stage tech companies raise money through a stubbornly analog process — an irony for an industry based on the conviction that computers will upend every aspect of human existence.

As a reflection of the company itself, Jonathan's passion for his work is manifested through his conviction towards helping his clients realize their successes.

We haven't seen such journalistic conviction about the demise of a market mainstay since Businessweek pronounced the «Death of Equities» in 1979 (the S&P 500 has since risen almost 19-fold).1 Even Warren Buffett, who amassed a fortune through active investing and entrusts Berkshire Hathaway's vaunted equity portfolio to two hedge fund managers, has recently recommended buying an index tracker.

The explanation, argues South African theologian John de Gruchy in his book Reconciliation, lies in the growing conviction among Christian theologians in the twentieth century that God's reconciliation of the world to himself through Jesus Christ encompasses political orders, not merely relationships among persons or within families or church communities.

Rather, the Kingdom of God is about the demonstrative supernatural exploits of God; sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, the crippled and paralyzing walking again... but most of all, the acknowledgement of sin in man's heart that can only be evoked through the conviction that comes through the Holy Spirit himself.

What Lasch described in 1972 as «the familiar materials of popular discontent, quietly persisting through three decades of «affluence,»» are once again on the rise: «distrust of officials and official pronouncements; cynicism about the good faith of those in positions of great power; resentment of the rich; a conviction that most things in life are «fixed.

But I believe, and am of strong conviction at this, that this country is provoking the judgment of God on itself, by treating it's poor, under - privileged and those who fall through the cracks as a burden, and as a nuisance that is only in the way of it's «at all cost» coveted image of «greatness», instead of giving a hard and honest look WHY is it the way it is in this country?

Presidents from Truman through Clinton «operated on the ideological conviction that liberal democracy is the only legitimate form of government and that other forms of government are not only illegitimate but transitory.»

He agreed to pay a $ 300,000 fine for misleading the committee during the investigation, and in the process dodged conviction on the actual charges through a combination of finessing some legal definitions, sheer self - confidence and raw political power (as Speaker of the House at the time of the complaints, he appointed the ethics committee.

But whatever the language, it sprang from the conviction that the only genuine hope, the only hope really worth hoping for, the only hope worth believing, the only hope which was not an illusion, was a hope grounded in God, the God whom we Christians know through the life and the mighty victory of Jesus Christ over the power of death.

If it's time to bring awareness to their hearts through a gentle, probing question, then remaining in acceptance without conviction of sin only blocks them from encountering the Good News.

And I wanted to introduce the topic through a series of questions, precisely because questions are about as far as I can go with this topic without tripping up on my own failed attempts to establish guiding principles or rules about how to engage other people with wisdom, conviction, and grace online.

And if God chooses to convict us through the words of another broken human, we can easily interpret conviction as being judgmental, behavior modification, rule - making, legalism or worst of all — shame.

It is a fact beyond question that deep within ourselves we can discern, as though through a rent, an «interior» at the heart of things; and this glimpse is sufficient to force upon us the conviction that in one degree or another this «interior» exists and has always existed everywhere in nature.

Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether faith was thought of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit into indwelling control of one's life, or as the power by which we apprehend the eternal and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or as the climactic vision of Christ as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment of faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice of prayer.

They go on to say that he had risen again.1 That this was so is a conviction that runs through the whole of the New Testament.

But we can say at least this: the essential meaning of the concept of the miraculous, as this has been used in traditional theology, is grounded in the keen awareness men have of the unexpected and unprecedented experiences and happenings, the novel and hence the unusually stimulating events or circumstances of life, through which men in every age have been aroused to faith in God and have been given a deepening conviction of his love and care.

These theological convictions about how God works in the world through particular communities that contain in their narrative life the seeds of their own — and the world's — redemption were the first source of Hopewell's interest in congregations.

Any strong intuitive conviction must be subjected to two tests: First, does it square with what we know of God through Jesus?

It is rather to find a new way to sail through uncharted seas developing a moral code that is in touch with both our deeper Christian convictions and the reality of this generation.

Even where the Church is still only on the way with its own doctrine, it draws its formulas each time out of its own enduring basic convictions, which always recognizably and unchangeably shine through the attitudes and concrete formulations, which at first sight by their merely literal tenor appear different or contradictory.

It was Bonhoeffer's conviction that only a church whose message is a part of her own being, a church who witnesses in obedience to her own ultimate concern through her actions, is able to interpret and proclaim the word of God to a world come of age.

They had inculcated a deep sense of sin and a conscious need of personal salvation; they had overpassed national and racial lines and had made religious faith a matter of individual conviction; they had emphasized faith in immortality and the need of assurance concerning it; they had bound their devotees together in mystical societies of brethren fired with propagandist zeal; and they had accentuated the interior nature of religious experience in terms of an, indwelling Presence, through whom human life could be «deicized.»

Reading through your contributions to the Mutuality 2012 Synchroblog, I've experienced such a range of emotions: anger, conviction, inspiration, solidarity, encouragement, and — most of all — hope.

In my randiest, loneliest moments, I can certainly wish for a different conviction, but even then, what I most desire is not the freedom to masturbate with a clear conscience, but to be married and near enough to that spouse to once again fumble our way through the best earthly picture we have of the Trinity's penultimate love.

Clergy and laity will then experience themselves first of all as brothers of the same religious mind and conviction which all have acquired through many sacrifices in a personal decision and in conscious opposition to the mentality of their surroundings.

This practice reforms us through «a set of deep convictions about what time is for.»

Everyone must somehow put together his convictions about such matters as knowledge, the mass media, art, manners, work, play, nature, health, sex, class, race, economics, politics, international relations, and religion into a pattern for the formation of character through the curriculum.

Perfect objectivity is not something we can achieve, but it is an ideal we can strive for by consciously opening ourselves to criticism and correction both by God, speaking through the text, and by the convictions of others.

It is also evident that they will be, in one way or another, parables of democratic faith, carrying forward the prophetic convictions of our biblical and religious heritage through the story of our shared secular struggle toward «liberty and justice for all.»

We seek to follow through on our positive convictions with the support of our community and the love of God.»

Both the predella and the triptych give visual expression to Luther's deep conviction that God, who is hidden and invisible, accommodates God's self to our finite and fallen nature by revealing God's disposition toward us through material things: in the incarnation, in the sacrament and in the Good News of scripture received, above all, through hearing (a material reality, but not visual, to be sure).

My experience conviction is also that sometimes the best road to hermeneutical retrievals of tradition is through critique and suspicion.

Underlying Marsden's analysis is the conviction that culture, including academic study, is fallen or perverted but capable of transformation through Christian approaches to knowing.

In these chapters Paul achieves a transformative rereading of scripture through the lens of the conviction he articulated earlier in Romans 5:8: «God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.»

The faith of the Church adapted itself to the disappointment of its first expectations with little disturbance, beyond a deepening of the conviction that through the Spirit Christ had already «come again'to His people, (John 14:16 - 23) to reign over them for ever «until the consummation of the Age».

They believed the Law was given to them, and they dramatized this conviction through the biblical narrative about Moses receiving the tablets from the very hand of God on Mount Sinai.

Buber's attitude toward Zionism is integrally related to his conviction that in the work of redemption Israel is called on to play the special part of beginning the kingdom of God through itself becoming a holy people.

But it is my conviction that in the long run, and even in the relatively short run it would reinvigorate the church and develop a core of membership that can carry the church through its decline and provide a basis for new health and even growth.

It was a sort of covenant between Christians and the nation - on the part of Christians that they will not use their numerical strength for the purpose of their communal interest in politics and on the part of the state that it would not restrict their evangelistic freedom and the growth of the Christian fellowship through inter-religious conversion undertaken through genuine conviction.

In some such fashion we can come to understand the Christian conviction that through Jesus Christ God is decisively present and at work, «representing» (in Schubert Ogden's admirable word) the possibility present in human nature as such, establishing a reconciliation of human existence with God's intention for it, and revealing the divine nature in human terms and with a singular intensity.

If, after careful analysis, it concludes that some part of the corporate convictions of the community of the faithful through the ages must be rejected, it accepts the fact that the burden of proof concerning such change lies on its own shoulders.

It may be said that this mixture of political morality and theology extends through all the actions of the Americans, a tincture of gravity and profound conviction.91