Sentences with phrase «true meaning of faith»

For the first time, I felt I understood the true meaning of faith, as hope in things unseen.

Instead, his act of love is his doing that which was required to make known to us the true meaning of faith and of victory, of love and of life.

Not exact matches

In order for our witness to mean anything to ourselves, our kids, or anyone who might darken our doors, we have to think about the culture we live in and what makes it particularly hostile to orthodox belief — as well as ways in which people around us might be uniquely susceptible to aspects of our faith that are true.

Just because we don't believe in your imaginary friend or the imaginary friend of other religions does not mean we don't hold beliefs, the difference is that we care that what we believe is true... you don't care (thus the faith you have in the buybull).

If, by Faith, you mean what we understand to be true then yes, but some of us don't have any «religious» faith in things supernatFaith, you mean what we understand to be true then yes, but some of us don't have any «religious» faith in things supernatfaith in things supernatural.

As long as evangelism is the focus, God will continue to bless it... Shoe box gifts are distributed along with The Greatest Gift of All, an illustrated booklet that gives a clear presentation of the true meaning of Christmas... After the shoe boxes are distributed, we also provide follow - up materials to give children further opportunities to accept Christ and grow in their faith.

Atheist reject the idea of a god and believe their view to be true or they would be agnostic unless they choose no stance at all of a god that of which would require unknowing of what the term «god» means so it would fall under a belief and since they can't prove that a god doesn't exist then by definition it requires faith for their view, meaning it would effect their view of the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe if a god was proven to be true.

I am not sure what you mean by «love» but I'd encourage you to discuss this with a true servant of faith, rather than continue in rage against what you oppose.

I would not be the person I am today were it not for my faith, and I feel sorry for those who are ignorant about the true meaning of being a Christian.

The talks of the conference have sought to explain what it means to say we have faith in God by looking at the evidence for His existence and his eternal plan to found the Church as man's true environment in which he comes into contact with his creator.

This means that theology can reach a true coincidentia oppositorum only on the negative ground of the realization of the radical opposition between Existenz and faith.

Some religions, it is true, succeed precisely by helping persons forget the misery and drudgery of daily toil; but such faiths provide a means for coping with work, they do not ignore it.

I do not think that it is quite true to say that man has come of age if this means that he no longer needs faith.

Now I do not believe there is any remedy for this suffocating materialism except the recovery of a religious faith, and that means, above all, the recovery of true, essential Christianity.

But is it really true that in the last resort the New Testament means by faith the natural disposition of man?

The issue of whether faith should gird us to not fear scientific truth is an intriguing one; the Holocaust was scientifically true, after all, meaning the facts could not....

Faith means believing a set of statements about God, Jesus, and the Bible to be true, often literally true.

What I do know is that while I wholeheartedly believe my Christian faith to be true, in actuality I have never seen God, verbally spoken to Him, physically touched Him or had any other means of communication with Him whereby we as human beings validate reality.

Rauschenbusch's story of the true meaning of Christianity is archetypically Protestant: The original purity of faith was lost and obscured by later corruptions, only to be discovered anew in our age.

FAITH: * now means believing a set of statements about God, Jesus, and the Bible to be true, often literally true.

I take for granted here the notion that Christian faith involves cognitive content — meaning propositions capable of being true — and that Christian theology involves the defense of their truth.

God, the spirit, must give them life; there is no life without the fleshly events, but there is no life either without God's spiritual gift of faith, the ability to discover the true meaning of the events of fleshly history.

But soon after the death of Muhammad political questions relating to his rightful successor were raised, and with them arose certain theological questions concerning the nature of the true Imam (Muslim head of state), the meaning of faith, sin, infidelity, punishment in the Future World, and so on.

Not only is the liturgy a true source of spiritual life; it is also the means par excellence to preserve and profess the truths of the faith.

Ragan Sutterfield is the author of This is My Body: From Obesity to Ironman, My Journey Into the True Meaning of Flesh, Spirit, and Deeper Faith.

And yet, as tends to be true of Old Testament history, this is obviously written not merely for the sake of preserving a history of the life of David, the King, but in order to extract from the history its essential meaning in the Yahweh - faith.

They are thus true symbols of the meaning of Christ in the life and faith of the church; and, because they are the symbols historically developed to express that meaning, they can never be replaced.

It doesn't mean those who don't believe in the Bible, or in the cross, or the church, or the true faith, or any of that.

The message of faith which comes in the word we hear opens by grace the eye of inner experience so that it may dare to understand itself and to accept the «sweet secret of its strangeness» as its true meaning.

I think that this is a true statement about revelation; and it is also partly true that when Christians speak of «faith» they mean primarily «faith in» or «trust in» someone: in God, who is personal, in Jesus Christ.

Or do we reach the true meaning of Biblical language by passing through a process of secularization that stills all human language about God, thereby allowing man to respond passively in faith to the full and final language of God?

Trust that you serve them best by living a strong example of what it means to know strong, heart - centred faith, uncompromised by external pressures to shape the True, infinitely loving leader within.

Clearly, he meant that if Christian faith and experience are true — as he believed them to be — they can not be merely local, isolated, shut in by boundaries of race or special formulations of religion.

or of true faith and following of Jesus (CHRISTian means a follower of Christ) and yes..

At least I find that the fear of same has contributed in controlling people from ab - using each other on the streets sw - earing calling names at each others beliefs, meaning that even if Jesus was s - worn at or called names at by a Muslim or non Muslim this will surely end up with the same faith of this woman since Jesus is as well Prophet and Messanger of God Allah and calling him names is just as equal guilt and that is the true law to be respected.

True, I did write about the beauty of Reformed tradition which I love with the same passion that I would write about the beauty of my wife; and, while that analogy is not perfect (I would not extol my wife's virtues as a means of encouraging others to marry her, while I do extol the virtues of the Reformed faith with proselytizing intent), I hope it explains my zeal.

As we mature in our faith, some of us may be able to shake off some of our personal biases and get closer to the true meaning of Scripture.

It is by faith alone that we become aware of the true meaning and the overwhelming power of guilt and repression: thus we need have little hesitation in assigning Nietzsche to a tradition of a radical Christian understanding of sin, a tradition going back to Paul by way of Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Pascal, Luther, and Augustine.

«21 Faith, he says, for the Hindu does not mean dogmatism, implying that for the Christian it does.22 But a Christian would have no difficulty in subscribing to the statement that «it is not historically true that in the knowledge of truth there is of necessity great intolerance.

Yes of course have understood what you meant after all the country is a country of all Egyptians whether Muslim or Christian or Jewish if any... those all have suffered for 30 years in the hands of this dictatorship which cared less for the people of Egypt only was there a greed for their money beside the control of their life and destiny... but above all only people with true faith can achieve what they have achieved, as people with no faith have not that will and power within granted by God to his believers...

It is also true that for Thomas toleration is a means for gaining respect for the true faith, rather than an end in itself, a duty simply owed to the conscience of others.

If one means, as Whitehead seems to have done, a rigid adherence to the letter of past formulations of the Christian faith, what he said is of course true.

Now if this is true, it in fact enhances the importance of the Decalogue, for what is given is the deeply pondered, concentrated meaning of life under Covenant, as that meaning is apprehended in faith.

A true existentialist interpretation of the New Testament is one through which faith comes to be word - or language - event for us, and the hermeneutic by means of which this is to be achieved is the «new hermeneutic».

If they mutually agree to take the risk, the act must be orientated to its true purpose: unitive through procreative (see Faith March 2006, Editorial, Confusion over the Meanings of Marriage).

Mathematics, theology, philosophy and law are examples of fields that revolve within a stand - alone world in which new findings are derived by means of logical operations consisting of axioms, postulates or articles of faith (theology) that need not be proven true or accurate through empirical studies or analyses.

Building a book - length argument around his contention that «the seventeenth century is the moment when one world - view was displaced by another because the scientific displaced that of faith,» Grayling paints a picture of astronomers, mathematicians, medical doctors, and even alchemists often reaching conclusions that even they dearly hoped weren't true — because the answers meant opposing Christian doctrine, unwise if you wanted to keep your job, freedom or head... To my ear, though, the tone of the Grayling's prose is rather flat — think «textbook» and you've pretty much got it — so many of these unexpected sidelights are not presented as compellingly or dramatically as one might hope.

For me, Lamb started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in Coyote Blue and Island of the Sequined Love Nun, but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.

It seems to me that many have predicted what we are now seeing: As the position of the warmistas begins to become ever more untenable, there will be a variety of reactions, with some increasing the drumbeat of doom and becoming ever more shrill, attempts were made to completely silence critics of the True Faith by Any Means Necessary, some others backtracking and staking out a position on the fence, while still others fled like rats from a sinking ship.

True tolerance and multiculturalism mean that everyone's faith traditions are allowed in Canada - but that none of us has to submit to the edicts of another.