Sentences with phrase «ultimate faith in»

His ultimate faith in the restorative power of literature resonates on every page of this infinitely rewarding and important book.

I also have my doubts of course but i have ultimate faith in Villeneuve as a director.

We have ultimate faith in you.

«When push comes to shove, I have the ultimate faith in women, and in young women in particular.

«When push comes to shove, I have the ultimate faith in women, and in young women in particular,» she told an audience in Brooklyn.

wengers ultimate faith in his players will be his major undoing in the end.

putting ultimate faith in human observation is something ENTIRELY DIFFERENT from science.

His faith in metaphysical reason appears to rest upon a prior and more ultimate faith in God.

This hope for the Good Society was justified in liberal theology both by its ultimate faith in God and by what it took to be experiences of real victory over evil.

By dismissing Marx's ultimate faith in the goodness of Historical progress — and by holding open the possibility of a return to a life both more human and more natural, left conservatives might seem to have freed themselves of the illusions of History.

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Thomas thinks that it is the discipline of metaphysics that asks questions about the ultimate cause of existence of things, and, as he says, «not only does faith hold that there is creation, reason also demonstrates it» (In II Sent., dist.

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.

If there is anything that you put your faith in for comfort, assurance, peace and your ultimate purpose, if you believe in your skills and that it will make your life and purpose clear then your worship your skills.

Rather because it excludes faith it also excludes philosophical reason, thereby deciding all ultimate questions in advance on the basis of a liberal philosophy of nature and reason so ubiquitous as to be invisible.

The ultimate expression of faith in the true Christ is to be ready to give up every formulation derived from the past so as to be transformed by the opportunities of the present and future and move toward the fullness of Truth.

Psychologist Sue Johnson, a pioneer in applying Bowlby's attachment theory to couples» therapy, posits, «The relationship between God and people of faith can be understood as an attachment bond, in which God is a safe haven, a secure base, and the ultimate source of comfort and care.»

Lukewarmness arises when we recognize that there is a tension between our very relative beliefs about Christ derived from the past and the ultimate centrality that we have accorded Christ in our faith.

If we grant that Tillich's ultimate concern (he defines faith as being ultimately concerned) produces an existential intensity which deepens man's participation in being, his existence in the immediate moment, does it follow that Tillich has followed Nietzsche's «Dionysian» program of transforming the transcendent into the immanent?

Moreover, as William Beardslee insists, the story form tells the individual «where he has come from and where he is going,» since «by creating its own ordered world, wherein through struggle and action an end is achieved, the story expresses faith in the ultimate reality of order and life.

At the same time it gives ultimate reality to the very moment in which eschatological faith is realized.

Although acknowledging that pastoral counseling had the same ultimate aim as other dimensions of pastoral work — that of bringing people to Christian faith and the Christian fellowship, where those goals were «relevant» — Hiltner defined the special aim of pastoral counseling in more flexible terms, virtually indistinguishable from those of secular counseling: «The attempt by a pastor to help people help themselves through the process of gaining understanding of their inner conflicts» (Pastoral Counseling, 1949).

Of course, to the man without faith this appears to be both a piece of evasion of real issues in that it shelves difficult problems, and a piece of wishful thinking in that it believes in the ultimate goodness of God in some nebulous hereafter, even though the daily evidence of life denies such goodness and love.

40 But once again, omnipotence is another symbolic term, though it is retained as an expression of our ultimate courage to have faith in «a victory over the threat of nonbeing.»

Whether it is expressed in religious terms or not, the meaning of life, values, destiny — ultimates — are matters of faith and therefore are religious concerns.

«It is Islam that sets forth submission and unquestioning acceptance as the ultimate in piety — not Christianity nor our parent faith as expressed in the Hebrew Bible.

As long as love and loyalty, aspiration and hope, faith and dedication remain among men, so long will there remain an ultimate mystery in the divine - human encounter.

But this can be done in love and knowing in faith that even we in our arguments possess that ultimate unity, through the Church, in what is the Church's real nature.

But such a view of life, which at once accepts man's present limitations and believes in his ultimate potentialities, is only possible to the one who has true religious faith.

Also, if he claims for statements about Jesus» ultimate significance a self - evidence or demonstration in no way dependent upon participation in the community of faith, he would not intend his statements to be theological in the sense of my definition.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

Religious faith at its best is an attempt to define the meaningfulness of life and give life ultimate nobility in facing death.

The sacrament stimulates a value response to an object other than itself — in this sense being a kind of instrumental value — by virtue of a three - way congruence of some sort involving person, sacrament, an ultimate faith - object.

In the first place it can be taken as axiomatic in the Catholic view of faith that where the Church's magisterium has once unambiguously required at any time an absolute, ultimate and unconditional assent of faith to a definite doctrine as revealed by God, the doctrine in question is no longer subject to revision and is irrevocablIn the first place it can be taken as axiomatic in the Catholic view of faith that where the Church's magisterium has once unambiguously required at any time an absolute, ultimate and unconditional assent of faith to a definite doctrine as revealed by God, the doctrine in question is no longer subject to revision and is irrevocablin the Catholic view of faith that where the Church's magisterium has once unambiguously required at any time an absolute, ultimate and unconditional assent of faith to a definite doctrine as revealed by God, the doctrine in question is no longer subject to revision and is irrevocablin question is no longer subject to revision and is irrevocable.

Sanguine modernists could accept this dismissal of ultimate questions because their faith in the evolutionary process was such that they need have no fear of its implications.

For the first time he was free to question his own serene faith in science, to seek the ultimate answers which three years of psychoanalysis had not provided, and even to decide whether to pursue the medical career he had begun.

I find that when you speak about your faith and your experiences, in regards to yourself, I am far more comfortable in hearing what you have to say... when you bring your beliefs and experiences to a level that it is ultimate truth and applies to everyone, in regards to us, the fellow blogger / responders... it rankles.

The remnant or the one, and we find both concepts before as well as after the Fall, is a projection of faith, an assertion of hope in the ultimate fulfillment of the covenant promise.

the truth of God can be or has been captured in the ex-cathedra utterances of the bishop of Rome — the idolatry of many who like to pretend that ultimate truth has been captured in the ecumenical councils of the early church, in the historic creeds, or in the «unbroken tradition of the catholic faith,» which usually is the same thing as the speaker's special prejudice.

That one can dare to maintain such hope depends on acceptance of the Christian faith's promise that precisely in the relinquishing of concern for one's own security, ultimate security and meaning are found.

If God alone is ultimate, if he can not be captured in either words or symbols, then one can never be secure or at peace with faith.

Education for democracy, therefore, should encourage the habit of sustained inquiry and the arts of sincere persuasion, and above all should confirm and celebrate faith in the priority and ultimate givenness of truth and goodness, in which the moral enterprise is grounded.

In the light of this belief we better understand how Israel's hope and faith in the ultimate fulfillment of tile divine promise survived her own violation of the terms of the covenant and her destruction as a natioIn the light of this belief we better understand how Israel's hope and faith in the ultimate fulfillment of tile divine promise survived her own violation of the terms of the covenant and her destruction as a natioin the ultimate fulfillment of tile divine promise survived her own violation of the terms of the covenant and her destruction as a nation.

Israel's persistent, obstinate hope in the ultimate fulfillment of the promise is itself an act of faith, made defiantly in the face of her own repeated abandonment of faith.

If it has really happened in him, then faith can not possibly be the ultimate and decisive dividing line among people.

Their boldness, firmness in the face of trial and how they answered to the judges in the name of their faith is very touching: Their well being is not the ultimate satisfaction but seeing others in painful situation caused them pain; they were willing to undergo difficulties and were totally oriented to others.

It is faith that compels us to trust these experiences» rather than dismiss them as illusions in our inevitable «mornings - after»» and faith that interprets these experiences as occurrences «for me,» signs «of the ultimate benignness of the universe.»

This is a faith born out of the I - Thou relationship itself: it is trust in our relation with the Eternal Thou, in the ultimate oneness of the world with God.

The structure of faith as apprehended within the whole company of the prophets was hardly without its contradictions, but the projection in faith of a final consummation embracing all prophetism's high affirmations is variously and eloquently proclaimed, and such raptured extensions of prophetic faith represent the ultimate words of prophetism.

It apprehends it in the way appropriate to it — that is, it investigates the possibility and necessity of it in the strict sense, and leaves it for faith to affirm in action this possibility as the ultimate truth.

I believe a believer when in a lukewarm stage / faith will become bipolar due to their disobedience towards the ultimate truth of God's word and commandments.