Sentences with phrase «to die for one's faith»

This was the basis of the early churches to accept the real meaning of witnessing in the act of dying for the faith.

When all religions are tolerated, no believers need die for their faith.

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

«While it is good that no Christians died for their faith in Vietnam, the authorities continue to crack down on ethnic minority Christians and will start implementing a new law on religion in 2018 for all Christians.»

@rabidatheist They do not die for their faith, but instead die trying to kill others for their faith.

Or, as Father Urban Roche, hero of Powers's first novel, puts it, «There was too much emphasis on dying for the faith.

There are also three types of Baptism: of water; of desire (people who die during preparation or are otherwise prevented from being baptized by water); of blood (people who die for the faith before being baptized by water).

On Easter to proclaim that Christians were never really persecuted and didn't really die for their faith is beyond shameful.

In the past 110 years more Chrisitians died for their faith than from 33 ad until 1900.

If this man dies for his faith, the reward of Heaven will outweigh anything he leaves behind a thousandfold.

But today in countries all over the world Christians are still dying for their faith.

David Mills is Executive Officer of First Things Justice, Peace and the Martyrs Thousands and possibly tens of thousands of Christians die for the faith every year, notes Daniel Philpott, writing in the Jesuit magazine America.

(CNN)-- My New Year's resolution is to not die for my faith.

True Christians have never denied his existence, in fact believe it so much they are prepared to die for their faith in God.

But how often did Romans force Christians to endure torture or die for their faith?

To the extent any of you died for your faith, I am afraid you threw your life away.

And you know what, just read what is happening today in Egypt, Nigeria, Tunisia, Syria, Libya... No, Joyce today, Christians dying for their faith is at an all time high today.

«No one — Saint Justin Martyr writes — has ever been ready to die for his faith in the sun».

The Apostles» successors, next three centuries: die for faith, write liturgies, establish canon of scripture, doctrine, and practice based on that tradition.

At any rate, Lafferty proffers an old lesson: The devils in human shape can be saved, but only if we are willing to die for our faith.

I never argued whether the resurrection was true or false (that's a matter of faith and people die for their faiths all of the time), but the fact that he lived was my point.

If you want to get serious about faith, report on those dying for their faith every day in areas like the Middle East, North Korea, China, India, Afghanistan... places where Christians have no rights and are persecuted daily.

This year, almost 90,000 Christians died for their faith, according to an Italian research group.

They see only the darkness and never the glimmer of light that shines every moment a Christian, young or old, is willing to die for a faith that so many Christians in the West are barely willing to live for.

Millions now dying on both sides of the eastern front are dying for a faith.

3A) millions have died for their faith in something; pagans died for their faith in their gods, etc etc etc so their giods are real also because they died for their gods, correct?

i wonder whih god will be more pleased with its slave — the one who murdered a man for his beliefs or the one who allowed his follower to die for his faith either way — god is a man made belief system that is only a few thousand years old — and in that time, no one single thing has killed more humans, than a man claiming to know the will of some kind of god Faith is good thing, faith in one's self.

It's not about YOU, it's about a brave young man who is willing to die for his faith.

Any way you look at it, tens of thousands of Christians die for their faith every year.

Martyrs have died for the faith and more martyrdoms are expected (2:13; 6:9 - 11).

Francis, who became pontiff in 2013, has repeatedly paid tribute to Christians suffering or dying for their faith in current times, especially in the Middle East.

I suppose they're only martyrs if they die for their faith.

It also explains why in America appeals like Hovey's or York's to the exemplary nature of the martyrs don't make immediate sense; in most people's minds, the only people who die for their faith are delusional and suicidal figures like Jim Jones, founder of the People's Temple, and more than 900 of his followers.

For example, as Mr. Lawler points out, Brownson makes some valuable comments when he emphasizes the importance of the solidarity and interdependence of humans and what naturally follows from that, but it seems to me that Brownson then goes too far in concluding that «civic virtues are themselves religious virtues» and even that «he who dies on the battlefield for his country ranks with him who dies for his faith.»

«in fact believe it so much they are prepared to die for their faith in God.»

They are believers to the core, unshaken, and willing to die for their faith.

Before her eighteenth birthday, she had been baptized and confirmed, and had died for her faith.

The priest said, «I'm not sure Maria is ready to die for her faith.»

The exhibition will explore the topic of religion in contemporary art, with a particular focus on Christian and Muslim notions of martyrdom and eternal life.Why are people willing to die for their faith?