Sentences with phrase «upon faith for»

For him to say the Lord was calling him for a presidential run tells me that he not only relies upon faith for inner strength but he will also rely upon it to run this country.

Not exact matches

So for years and years, we live a life that is based on faith, not detailed informations which never line - up to be fully agreed upon even by the most brilliant minds.

In a country that is founded upon tolerance and respect for those with different faiths, honestly... how do so many of you justify the hateful, negative remarks you make towards me and others in my Catholic family?!

Will he choose to deal with the situation based solely upon doing what is best for the nation, based upon real world evidence - even if that evidence conflicts with his faith?

Those that are maligning him for his faith and what he wears to remind him of his commitment to enduring principles, needs to reflect upon themselves a moment and consider: 1.

I feel sorrows upon the simpletons» faiths for theirs are in blindness attritions of the mindless servile debaucheries.

To this day, «Upon that Rock» we do show our faith and love for Jesus.

It has become so settled in the mind of the denominational community that «Asking Jesus into the heart» has become the defacto method for becoming a Christian, fearing baptizing converts immediately upon profession of faith will cause them to be «saved by works».

The openhearted observer of Islam in the West can discern the shape of hope in the increasing willingness of people of the two faiths to come together for dialogue and consultation on the mutual problems they face; in the reevaluation of Islam forced upon Muslims by their minority status in many places; and in the development of the concept of international law and universal human rights.

In preparation for the Year of Faith, all of the faithful are invited to read closely and meditate upon Pope Benedict XVI's Apostolic Letter Porta Fidei.

With this gesture, the Vatican said, the Pope «desired to show his closeness, attention and prayer also to all those who suffer for their faith, in particular to Christians who are enduring persecution or limitations imposed upon their religious freedom.»

Prayers are dependent upon faith and sincerity for them to be answered by our Creator, Jehovah God.

There still remain places and occasions when a designated person of faith is called upon to offer an invocation, a benediction, grace before a meal, a prayer of dedication for a new building or a blessing for a bike race.

If saving faith is contingent upon belief only, then there would be no reason for the existence of verses that reference «the obedience of faith» (Rom 1:5; 16:26) and «faith working through love» (Gal 5:6).

But the theologians who worked out this conception were also devoted Christians who centered their own religious faith upon Jesus of Nazareth, for them the very incarnation of God in human existence.

The significance of this chapter (III) lies in its attempt to describe the human impression Jesus made upon people in a way clearly suggestive of the meaning Jesus has for faith, as if a human contact with Jesus were — at least potentially — an encounter with the kerygma.

Prayer of the Day: «O God, who before the passion of your only begotten Son revealed his glory upon the holy mountain: Grant to us that we, beholding by faith the light of his countenance, may be strengthened to bear our cross, and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

For those whose faith is built upon the Bible, tattos are forbiden acorning to Leviticus.

John Calvin managed to invert the lesson of the passage almost entirely: The young ruler, he claimed, had asked an inept question, supposing that one could secure eternal life through works, and thus Christ's metaphor was meant as an illustration of the impossibility of anyone fulfilling the requirements of the law, and of the need therefore for a total reliance upon faith.

The answer is, he was recognized, even by the demons, who had supernatural insight, and by his disciples, through faith; and yet the disciples were forbidden to declare it, and the demons were silenced; and if the Jews as a whole did not recognize him, it was because their eyes too were «holden,» and because they were already bringing upon themselves a judgment for their sins.

The intuitional evidence for belief in Allah, the belief based upon the recognition of Allah by our inner consciousness, is brought to our attention in the Qur» an by pointing out the important psychological fact that there is an instinctive feeling of faith in Almighty Allah, the Creator of the universe, which comes to men when they are free from inclinations, or the distractions of dull routines, or when surprised by the question of the origin of the universe, or when faced with hardships or misfortunes which they can not overcome by themselves.

This difficulty lay like a great sorrow upon all theologians whose last norm of belief was nothing more certain than private interpretation of the Bible, and while it broke the faith of some, it serves also, paradox though it may seem, to explain how it was that so many non-Catholic exegetes found it easy to strip themselves of theological vesture and to plunge wildly with the higher critics into the maelstrom of that speculative free - for - all and devaluation of Christian dogma which followed.

No doubt the total vision promised by an apocalyptic form of faith is not yet present upon our historical horizon; for, immersed as we are in a fully profane consciousness, we would seem to have lost the very possibility of apocalyptic vision.

With all due respect, you can provide no empirical evidence for the «immutable good nature of god» because, after all, this is an opinion based upon presuppositionalist religious faith (i.e. the cart is way out in front of the horse).

Its implication is that by faith man enters upon the life for which he was originally created.

Even while acknowledging some lat.itude in these early chapters, it appears that science is increasingly able to corroborate what we have held in faith based upon biblical texts, including bases for such matters as an ancient deluge, genetic linking back to one mother and possible on father, and the possibility of extended life - spans prior to the deluge.

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR YEAR OF FAITH FROM THE CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH Virtually every one focuses upon knowledge of the Catechism and the Second Vatican Council

Indeed, chatting to various priest vocation directors, a common theme is that few people are coming forward for priesthood largely because few have the faith foundation to build a vocation upon.

Once upon a time, I thought that the Christian faith, or at least the purest version of it, had started with Jesus and his disciples, taken a hiatus for about a thousand years during the reign of Roman Catholicism, returned with Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation, and gotten properly explained again by the 1895 Bible Conference of Conservative Protestants.

Daniel T. Rodgers, in his book The Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850 to 1920 University of Chicago Press, 1978), enlarges upon Weber's original thesis, suggesting that «at the heart of Protestantism's revaluation of work was the doctrine of the calling, the faith that God had called everyone to some productive vocation, to toil there for the common good and for His greater glory.»

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.

However, and quite surprisingly I should add, you might be interested to know the effect your words have upon a believer in God of forty years, and by the way I wish to thank you for your words in this province, that when I read such terse thoughts they have the distinct effect of deepening, in an extraordinary way, my faith and cause me to love and worship God even more than ever.

I judge that the concentration of emphasis in the life of most parishes upon the Sunday morning worship in a sanctuary designed exclusively for that purpose tends to have the same effect upon the people of God unless that worship is administered in the context of a developmental understanding of Christian faith.

Theistic faith is unlikely to survive if it thoroughly maintains that its object is unknown and so is not parasitic upon unexpressed positive statements about God — for, as Hume puts it, there is no significant difference between holding that God is totally unknown and holding that there is no God at all.

Her rationale for such a view seems to rest upon (1) a highly questionable interpretation of one text in Process an Reality and the claims (2) that only such a view is compatible with human freedom and (3) that only such a view is compatible with human faith.

We should resist, rather than insist upon, weird theories that old men conspire on behalf of pedophiles at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, or Penn State, or wherever.

His conviction that this can be accomplished rests upon his faith in God on the one side and logical rigor on the other — his belief that his tools are indeed adequate (for humans to have the kind of knowledge humans can have); that our knowledge of God, although partial, is really knowledge of God as God is.

(A case in point is that of a publicly supported, church - related hospital which is the only hospital in town and which refuses to permit certain medically accepted surgical procedures — such as abortion or tubal ligation — which are objectionable to the church but not to the patients of other faiths or no faith who depend upon that hospital for health care, and whose tax dollars support it.)

with all and full respect; You know that your used name is dear to my heart, for having been a believer in God the Creator of the whole Universe he has all the beautiful names that we know or do not know, I believe that God starched his hand to mankind in love, sending among them his prophets and messengers to warn and guide to righteous, am not told to force belief or religion upon people of any faith or of non faith, am a mere reminder and Warner to my self and whom my want to know and judge their senses life is a spiritual challenge, life is a maze and only if make use of the heavenly codes that could be found in All Scriptures of God that was relaid upon mankind from prophets & messengers from Adam to Noah to Abrahim to Musa to Issa to Muhammed which many obviously seem to Ignore!!

Every faith and religion upon earth that do not follow the Apostle's Doctrine is false and of the devil and is bound for the lake.

If you have read any of my other posts you are aware that, for me, the element of faith is the premise upon which my belief is hinged.

In any case, the main point is that theology now must rest its case for the truth of the Christian faith upon the intrinsic convincingness of a Christian worldview, and this requires fulfilling the criteria of adequacy and coherence.

For after all, in any faith which is genuinely theocentric or focused upon God, it is essential to make sure that it is God, not human desires or wishes or aspirations as they now stand, who is to be «given the glory»; and it is in God, and in God alone, that we may speak meaningfully of the significance of our own existence.

By the Pen or by the Sword or by what ever God has willed it to be... it is only then upon confrontation where and when faith is tested and judged, then it is for God to decide whom to give victory over the other the unjust ones.

It relies upon blind faith and it promises great things in the future for sacrifices today.

'' Pray for your leaders...»» Let he who is without Sin cast the first stone» MY faith is the Rock upon which I stand.

Today host upon host of men have everywhere sunk into the slavery of collectives, and each collective is the supreme authority for its own slaves; there is no longer, superior to the collectives, any universal sovereignty in idea, faith or spirit.

We may not quarrel with the fact; but the whole development, beginning with a concentration upon the idea of Jesus» own person as of central importance for religious faith, certainly represents a shift in emphasis from Jesus» own teaching.

They insisted that they were protecting the faith delivered once and for all to the saints, so they seized upon these phrases as the tests of correctness.

I certainly hope for the Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, as I would hope for myself and others with me, if found out to be of Christian faith and a modern order, not unlike the Christians who walked with Jesus as a man and Pastor who, as it were, was finally offered up as a sacrificial offering to God upon a cross after being found guilty of offending the then Church of Israel who then proposed his death sentance to be carried out by a Roman Court, though he was innocent of the charges.