Sentences with phrase «who abandoned her faith»

For my part, I am a prodigal son, who abandoned the faith for many years.

Hirsi Ali, a former devout Muslim who abandoned her faith and became an atheist, has been a vocal critic of Islam.

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Every honest Jew who knows the history of his people can not but feel a deep sense of gratitude to Islam, which has protected the Jews for fifty generations, while the Christian world persecuted the Jews and tried many times «by the sword» to get them to abandon their faith.

The country's faith is dead... ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE... ABANDON ALL HOPE.

Those who find little or no value in the institution however, rather than abandon the faith and Jesus, may make the choice to choose to follow Jesus outside the institution.

Those who are most sensitive and perceptive have abandoned them, sometimes because they wished to do so, more often because traditional faith has simply lost the power to shape vision and experience and to guide action.

Only by abandoning its original faith in the dawning Kingdom of God that is in actual process of realizing itself could orthodox Christianity arrive at its belief in the transcendent and solitary God who is the Wholly Other.

They seem to think that people like me, who no longer make «church» attendance as part of their weekly routine, have fallen away from God, abandoned the faith, or have given up on following Jesus.

Those taken into Babylonian captivity, as well as those left behind, now had even greater temptations placed before them to abandon faith in their God, and to turn after other gods who were clearly more powerful and victorious.

Though many Millennials have abandoned religion entirely, Barna Group president David Kinnaman believes the ones who keep their faith are more committed.

Agony now is the way of achieving that reconciliation, that breaking down of the barrier of enmity — which the madness of men prevented love from accomplishing, and the frustration of which is the most refined torment in the sufferings of the Messiah — a universal agony in the likeness of that of the Savior, both the agony of the racked, abandoned Jews and of the racked, abandoned Christians who live by faith.

His is the early - nineteenth - century's liberalism of Friedrich Schleiermacher, an «enormously courageous move» that, «focusing on religious experience rather than religious ideation as the object of theological reflection,... combined faith in one's own experience with faith in the God who will not abandon those who trust in Him.»

However, the Quran is very clear about how to do handle the infidels (especially those who may have abandoned the Muslim faith).

Those who maintain that the idiom of resurrection is to be understood only in the traditional (or Lucan) sense2 would, if correct, leave us with no alternative but to abandon the idiom as a valid way of professing our Christian faith, if we are among the growing number of Christians for whom that tradition is neither historically founded nor even very meaningful.

The men who deserted Ali and abandoned their faith became famous in history as unbelievers and were known as Kharijites — the people who have forsaken their faith.

By our faith in the God who identifies with Jesus, the God who is inseparable from the man forsaken and abandoned on the cross, we announce not only a revolution in our fundamental image of mystery, but also a drastic revision of our self - understanding.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation now has a support group for the many many pastors, preachers, and ministers who finally see the light and abandon their faith.

I will use «secular humanism» as a label for the post-Enlightenment, nontheistic faith of the large and growing number of Westerners who have abandoned Judaism or Christianity without adopting another species of organized religion.

As far as the Catholic Faith goes there have always been those in the Church who have done wrong, and more serious wrong than you are reading about here - namely the first Pope denying he even knew Jesus and all of the rest of the apostles abandoning God to that shameful horrifying death - when they could have stood by Him, defending Him against the authorities and even proving to them that He indeed was God - their Messiah before them!

On learning that, although Jesus Christ is the Word who was from the beginning, the power of Christ that was working for salvation before the time of Jesus, in virtue of his coming, is still working in people of sincere faith, devotional Hindus will want to know why they must abandon their own sacraments.

He distinguishes between early and late apostasy; between «shallow» apostasy that rejects a particular religion but retains a form of spirituality, and «deep» apostasy that concludes there is no deity at all; and between the «mild» apostasy of those who were only nominally religious in the first place and the «transforming» apostasy of those who had been seriously committed to the faith they later abandoned.

Miller's remark that the triumph of theory «is evident in the violence and irrationality» of attacks on it repeats the scornful confidence with which Haeckel refers to those (distinguished contemporary physicists and biologists among them) who refused to abandon the «faith of our fathers» as they attacked his new monistic religion.

Perhaps the religious Christian can believe that Christianity need not know the Christ who is immediately present; but a Christianity divorced from the living presence and action of Christ is a Christianity that has abandoned the specifically Christian movement of faith.

More likely is that these articles are reporting similar observation on the growing tribe of those who have left the institutional church, but who have not abandoned their faith.

Father Joe is a distinguished addition to the growing bookshelf of memoirs by prodigal sons and daughters, writers who chronicle their long journey home to the childhood faith they abandoned in search of liberation and fulfillment.

This false dichotomy can wreak havoc on young Christians raised to believe they have to choose between God and evolution, and who after encountering evidence in support of the theory, abandon faith altogether.

But of course, as much as she is hoping that I will become a believer and then be content to spend every Sunday sitting in church with her, I am hoping she will abandon her faith, (as I did after 25 years) and then she will be content to spend her Sundays with me, the man who loves her, and we could actually go off and do things together... or, we could compromise and I would be content with having one Sunday a month with her.

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-- Debbie Macomber, # 1 New York Times bestselling author on Ransom Canyon From the beloved and bestselling author of the Ransom Canyon and Harmony, Texas series comes a powerful, heartwarming story about generations of family and the ironclad bonds they forge When Jillian James lands in the small town Texas community of Laurel Springs, she's definitely not planning to stay — except to find a few clues about the father who abandoned her and destroyed her faith in family.

Hopefully they will help Boo regain courage, faith and love that not all people are as bad as the last ones who abandoned him.