Sentences with phrase «very much faith»

So if people continue to lose faith in their nation's currency, for example, the US dollar, I don't have very much faith at all... I would much rather have my money in a currency that I now can't be manipulated and forged.

You must not have very much faith in the power of God if you think the bible is his word.

Not exact matches

It was awesome, I'm NASA's biggest fan — so you think thank you very much to the people that had the faith to do that.

For decades, Ahmed and other Muslims say, Hollywood has put their faith very much in the foreground, often cast in an ominous light.

«I very much appreciate that, for so many of you, the inspiration to do such amazing acts of service in your communities comes directly from your Christian faith.»

It is faith that allows you to see the things of God and makes that which is not visible very much visible.

The very evening before that I had an in depth discussion with my girlfriend who is struggling with this issue so much so that she is losing her faith.

She said: «I am inspired by faith and very much looking forward to getting to know and serve the community.

There is much love within a faith community (a faith family) and it is very much a part of the church, synagogue and mosque.

When my husband was shot to death in a robbery in front of my building, leaving me very much alone with a 5 year old son, this tragic event actually caused me to abandon my delusions of faith.

It doesn't begin to deal with the whole of the faith, and much of its very introspective peaceful factors.

One must also understand the Wesleyan movement as preaching a gospel of free grace that at times sounds very much like the Reformation theme of «justification by faith.»

Add to that the variety of doctrines / Theologies within orthodox Christianity... with Consensus on a very small Core of Truths: God Is, We are not God, Jesus Christ is the Messiah and Salvation is Through Faith / Belief in Him... there is much that lacks Consensus and there are mountains of arguments and counter-arguments for each doctrinal / Theological position.

In Christian circles, people talk about «The Faith» as if it is something very much outside of you - like somehow, belief just descends on you and it resides in your heart like an immovable stone.

Out of all this insanity comes the very wise perspective of a woman who identifies herself as «the very worst missionary,» but who is pretty much «the very best blogger» when it comes to speaking frankly about faith in real life.

Sure, truth and the object of our hope do exist very much outside of us, but faith depends on us in some sense.

The founders of FAITH did not know very much — if anything — about the other Movements that were emerging as the 1970s began.

What I hear is a very judgmental person saying those of us who own guns don't have as much faith as you.

I also know many people put to much faith into their very human pastor, and seem to forget he is NOT the holy one.

Leonard presents personal sanctity as very much within reach — undeniably important for those who feel holiness is a strange and beautiful concept somehow reserved only for the great heroes in faith.

All my life I've been taught that the Church is at its best when the theology is consistent and everyone agrees with one another, but when my very faith was on the line, it was the diversity of the Christian tradition that offered me so much hope.

People who do not know very much about their Catholic faith and journalists who are always after novelties have discussed the Council mostly from the point of view of new and revolutionary developments.

What did exist — what very much existed — and what pressed on Jewish faith from all sides, and even from within, were the religious problems of idolatry and syncretism.

A «progressive» Catholic, his faith has often been described as tepid and fashionable, very much like that of Tony Blair's.

It is not a product of faith, but rather, as you suggest, very much a product of literal ignorance.

As a man of Faith, I can tell you that I believe in Satan a much as I believe in God — for the very simple reason that I have encountered evil — utter, absolute, and in my face — but the spiritual dimension can not be taught — at all.

Why hasn't Romney's faith come up very much during this election?!!?! I find it baffling that it hasn't.

So reading this article was uplifting, as I know much of the world today is very much against God and against Faith in general, but He continues to touch hearts.

It might have been the way I made the suggestion, or maybe I didn't listen to him enough, but he got very upset and accused me of trying to silence his witness at work, and said that I was not much of a pastor if I couldn't see that he was getting persecuted for his faith.

I'll bet the thief on the cross probably thought he wouldn't have much of a highlight reel, but how about all the people who come to faith at the very end of their life because of his story and testimony?!

Often he gives us a polemic against everlasting life for mortals, and the polemic sounds very much like Luther's argument for salvation by faith alone.

Not you in particular snowboarder, but so very many people on here believe that Romney is going bring his faith into his position so much more as president than he did as governor.

thank you very much for your openness and all the stuff you gave me to grow in my faith.

They give expression to a very contemporary and vibrant faith that is both simpler and much more complex than the complexifications cherished by those who know only that we live in a secular society.

I am a very imperfect person and without my faith I know personally I would be less happy and would be walking much darker paths.

Even more important for current theology, the very ontology that is modern in its openness to historical relativism requires also, on purely philosophical grounds, the existence of a God who is very much alive and who is fully as personal as the God of Christian faith.

Finisher: As a believer, I would say that, separate and apart from your specific position here, you are not exactly doing whatever faith you believe in very much good by expressing your position in such a combative, demeaning fashion.

If half the public says they don't know very much about Mormonism and one - third of Republicans say the Mormon religion is not a Christian faith, how will GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney fare in his bid for the White House?

All this sounds very much as though the traditional language of the faith were being excised as an act of concession to modern ears untrained, untuned, and uninterested.

But worse yet, not only does it distort the historical record, this criticism of Greek civilization also hides within itself a bad «faith resentment against the contemporary West, very much including its reverence for the critical intellect:

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

So this past week Rachel has been blogging about how faith changes our relationships, which has been brilliant because I can very much relate.

But the difficulty with this is always that it assumes two things: that faith is concerned with one's attitude to God, which is true enough, but much too broadly conceived; and that the crux of the challenge of Jesus is that men should share his faith, (Fuchs would want to express the matter in words very different from these.)

It rightly allows a place for intelligence and reason within faith, but it simultaneously suppresses much of the very substance of the faith it seeks to defend.

There are many theologians of religion and the whole church, of faith and of culture, but very few who have had much to say about the dynamics of belief within the setting of the local congregation.

On the contrary, Lehner argues, Catholics were often very much involved in the Enlightenment project, so much so that one can indeed speak of a «Catholic Enlightenment», one which took on board many aspects of the wider, secular Enlightenment, but did so while remaining true to the Catholic Faith.

They were attracted to what they saw of the faith and practices of early Christian communities; only later did they come to understand very much about the faith, after a prolonged program of catechesis made them proficient in an alien grammar and way of life.

Faith must be just as much about journeying and the patience and detachment that the act requires — the very challenge of trying to see through a glass, darkly — as it is about the thing, or the One, towards which we move.

Faith as radical trust in God, like fidelitas, is not very much concerned with beliefs at all.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz