Sentences with phrase «to test one's faith»

This wasn't the only moment in the year that tested the faith of single player gaming fans, though.

If anything, my own faith has grown stronger as I've pushed past my fears, exposed myself to new ideas, and tested my faith in light of them.

Good for him to really test his faith and ask hard questions.

Still, there would be no anticipating the host of supernatural horrors about to unfold which would test their faith while members of the tight - knit clan gradually turn against one another.

Hey, want to test the faith of your local church?

If a believer has cancer is it because their god gave it to them because they were bad people or is it to test their faith in their god?

Although there's some great stuff littered throughout, a lot of it's lost amid the tedium and overindulgence of the film's nearly three - hour runtime, which won't test your faith so much as your patience.

I wouldnt say Obama is a Christian only God knows maybe even testing his faith on his career over his faith..

You forgot the creationist's choice 3) God wants to test our faith by making sure all the evidence supports evolution and none of the evidence supports creationism.

I don't think they ever guessed how the Roman leaders would deal with them, making a game out of testing their faith through horrid deaths in the Colosseum.

Having tested his faith against intellectual criticism, he set to work to give it shape and definition in a book to be called The Inherent Impulse.

Testing my faith at every turn.

Speaking at the 2016 Eid - al - Adha celebration at the Independence Square, President Mahama explained that just like Allah tested the faith of Abraham by requesting for the ultimate sacrifice from him, (a sacrifice of his son), the act should be a powerful lesson of an unwavering trust, and selfless obedience and submission to the will of Allah.

His weapons are humiliation and professional one - upmanship (and guns and hatchets and booby - trapped boxes and stolen cushions); when Borden begins to respond in kind, the fallout before the last act's disquieting resolutions involves Angier's girl Olivia (Scarlett Johansson, testing my faith with a terrible accent) in addition to Borden's wife Sarah (an exceptional Rebecca Hall) and daughter Jess (Samantha Mahurin).

Problem # 1: This requires you to say that God would need to test our faith in order to know how strong it is.

So for him, not healing amputees is because it is too obvious and thus not testing faith, but healing cancer is not so dramatic and his god does not mind healing like that.

But while denying the reports, which said the butler was merely a courier in a behind - the - scenes struggle for power in the Holy See, the Vatican acknowledged that the often sordid affair would test the faith of Catholics in their Church.

If you are serious about succeeding as an entrepreneur and person, expect to experience heart - wrenching moments that will test your faith, your endurance and patience.

and do» t give me «oh, that's all the devil's doing» because that's not what you say when you claim that god sends bad times to test your faith, etc. no way am i going to fawn at the feet of, as the beiber would call him, that «d0ucheb @g».

God had them write about camels because he knew this would happen so it is yet another way to test our faith, kinda like those durn dinosaur fossils.

Let me bless them with an incurable disease that kills millions every few years to test their faith!»

How do you know I'm not an angel sent by God to deceive you or test your faith?

Because He wanted to test your faith?

On top of testing their faith, the plant has also been a steep learning curve for the couple — settling their young children into a new city, forming a fledgling church community and learning how to lead together.

Whether He is equipping you with a new skill or testing your faith, God can use this time to deepen your relationship with Him and to shape your character.

I have seen a lot of bad behavior from christians, (or those claiming to be) I was also incredibly surprised to find so many nonchristians, whether they be from varying religions, or agnostics and atheists, to have good behavior, and even exhibit «fruit of the spirit», what I once considered to be a way to test the faith, or rather character of a christian, (they will know them by their fruit).

I have a fundy brother who insists that either the devil put that «false evidence» in place, or that God put it there to test the faith of Christians.

Pastafarians understand that contradictions and inconsistencies have been placed in the gospel of the FSM to test the faith of his believers.

If reality contradicts one's faith, the faithful can just say «Oh, God made it look that way to test our faith!»

No... they'll just resign themselves to the thought that god is testing their faith... After all, he does work in mysterious ways...

One storm on Jupiter has been churning for at least 300 years (we know this thanks to the observations of scientists who have been watching the «Great Red Spot» for centuries), and it's not because God is mad at the citizens of Jupiter or testing their faith.

In process theology, neither belief nor unbelief caries any moral stigma, because the world is ambiguous, but unlike in Hick's thesis, God has not intentionally created it that way to test our faith.

Hell, the bible destroys itself with contradictions, but christians act like any indication of such is a lie and that the devil is trying to test their faith.

What a silly way to test faith.

If God is really God, He already knows who will accept him and who will not, so why bother to test our faith?

They think their God faked all those fossils to test their faith.