Sentences with phrase «virtue out of faith»

Religion knows it can't stand up to any sort of rational test, which is why it makes a virtue out of faith — not questioning and accepting whatever answers you're given.

Not exact matches

The catechism, it will be seen, assigns belief in God and trust in God to two different virtues, though as Benedict XVI's Spe salvi points out, in several Biblical passages «the words «faith» and «hope» seem interchangeable»; [10] but is either of them to be counted as a virtue?

Dr Dudley Plunkett brings out how the Church expects theology to done in the context of the virtue of faith.

For example, as Mr. Lawler points out, Brownson makes some valuable comments when he emphasizes the importance of the solidarity and interdependence of humans and what naturally follows from that, but it seems to me that Brownson then goes too far in concluding that «civic virtues are themselves religious virtues» and even that «he who dies on the battlefield for his country ranks with him who dies for his faith.»

We'd all like to think that we live and work and pray from a center that is full of bravery and hope --(and when I think of the times when I have really stepped out in faith to follow Jesus, I think that perhaps we can indeed summon these virtues from time to time)-- but I wonder if to deny the role that fear plays in our art, our faith, and our theology is to deny one of those dark but universal things that, deep down, we all have in common.

Dialogue, particularly with people of other faiths, holds out the possibility of conversion in many ways: conversion of others to the fullness of the faith, conversion of ourselves to a deeper living of our own baptismal grace, conversion of the culture to a nobler vision of the human person encouraged by the many examples of virtue to be found within and outside the Church.