Most people struggle
with faith at some point in their lives.
Like Parker's film, Hacksaw Ridge is also based on a true story
with faith at the center.
Joseph Ratzinger had answered from the Christian perspective precisely the question that Pope Francis» homily raised (if less reverently) in some circles of skeptics yesterday: If non-believers can go to heaven, why bother
with faith at all?
Not exact matches
While he continues to have
faith in Pearson and recently met
with company employees
at a town hall meeting, Ackman said Valeant and its CEO have done a poor job communicating, being transparent and quickly responding to damaging accusations.
But you have to have great
faith in yourself and you have to have great
faith in your camera operator and the various camera people because you could just look
at people's faces and see if they're kind of going, uh, or they're going yeah and they're
with you.
Her evolution appears aimed
at least in part
at keeping
faith with younger Democrats, a bloc that's nevertheless rejecting her, en masse, in favor of a septuagenerian
with a «60s vintage message.
In the end, I think we need to have absolute
faith in our ability to deal
with whatever is thrown
at us.
And above all, look for ways to communicate more
with your local bank so that it will maintain its
faith in you and your business no matter what's going on in the economy
at large.
It's our ability to put those two contradictory ideas together: We need to be prepared for what we can't predict and,
at the same time, have this total, unwavering
faith that we will find a way to deal
with all of it.
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And judging from Stephen Harper's nostalgic approach to family policies, he will mix free market
faith with an affirmative nod to the idealized, stay -
at - home mothers.
Under New York law, which governs the terms of Shkreli's employment, Shkreli was prohibited from acting in any matter inconsistent
with his agency or trust, and was bound
at all times to exercise the utmost good
faith and loyalty in the performance of his duties for Retrophin.
I've long wondered that after four years of unprecedented monetary policy
with still very tepid
at best economic growth, just whether investors would lose
faith in the Fed (and really global central bankers for that matter) and politicians.
Once carried high on a tide of stampeding bulls, Syrah is now beset by anxious investors who,
at the eleventh hour, seem to have lost
faith in the company's ability to supply both industrial users and electric vehicles
with the graphite they need.
why would a gay person want to be a part of a
faith that is bulging
at the seems
with members who consider homosexuality to be, not only a sin, but an extremely harmful and vile sin?
So while I agree
with her that political life may help renew
faith in human dignity and so make human rights believable, the politics of human rights is conducted through liberal language that is extremely partial, that leaves out
at least half of the human experience.
I am just saying, we need to stop fighting, we have far more in common than different — even
with muslims
at an «interfaith» service, and we need to be careful that we don't spend all our time focusing on defending our
faith from the the outside, and end up failing to focus on the needs of the families
at that service.
I have one more question, and it may be a very silly and naive question but I have to ask — why would a gay person want to be a part of a
faith that is bulging
at the seems
with members who consider homosexuality to be, not only a sin, but an extremely harmful and vile sin?
Being told evolution was a lie and that science was
at war
with faith.
At the same time, it can help in overcoming the suspicion
with which some activists regard those from
faith backgrounds.
Bob: «I have one more question, and it may be a very silly and naive question but I have to ask — why would a gay person want to be a part of a
faith that is bulging
at the seems
with members who consider homosexuality to be, not only a sin, but an extremely harmful and vile sin?»
Bazan has been no stranger to controversy; his lyrics and personal views on
faith and politics have put him
at odds
with the Christian music industry that birthed him.
At least people of
faith like Rick Santorum point to the Natural Law as their basis to justify the relationship their
faith has
with moral public policy.
He meant this as a compliment, I was sure, even
with the backhanded swipe
at my
faith, and I was glad to accept it as such.
He describes the pain and embarrassment he experienced in his struggles to come to terms
with his homosexuality; his determination, once his desires became undeniable, to remain celibate in accordance
with his
faith; the explosive mix of joy and confusion he experienced when he had his first homosexual experience
at age twenty - three.
But we...
with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord... looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our
faith who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down
at the right hand of the throne of God» 2Corinthians 3, Hebrews12)
I frankly believe while there is plenty of need to introduce and reinforce ethics in human endevours, and to have frank, open discussions of these endevours, religion is
at its bottom line a matter of
faith and, while it can be an individual's guiding influence, it is not something that should be associated
with science.
Wrestling
with one's
faith in God (as most American atheists did
at one point) and abandoning the god concept altogether are quite different.
some of you atheists are still talking... I can hear you... the little patter of your heart as it increases in rate because you are so ticked off
at those mean «ol believers whom you hate so much you just have to put all your time into the CNN posts dealing
with faith and God... You are so predictable... blather on without me though, I have to go get my sons from practice, so you will have to spew your hate on those left behind... Merry Christmas!
One thing I found really interesting is that one conclusion the book came to is that these «
faith wars» had a direct impact on the fall of the Roman Empire because the gov» t had to deal
with the internal struggle and the external enemies had to take a back seat in importance or
at least drastically distracted the leadership.
Recognizing this fact, the National Atheist Party has no quarrel
with those that would like to see the «cross» as a part of such a memorial,
with the caveat that other
faiths, including none
at all, should also be represented.
We hurt their feelings and probably interfere
with their sleep patterns by calling them out on everything from poor spelling to having a
faith grounded in no evidence (
at least in its core claims).
Milosz had the courage to expose his struggle in all its intensity; thus the readers
with whom he shared his troubles and doubts can trust, or
at least consider
with appropriate seriousness, his decision to stand within
faith's orbit.
2) Who is / will be in hell: Nobody, just Satan and his angels, everybody, people who don't have
faith in Jesus, people who aren't trying to be generally good, people who don't agree
with doctrines X Y and Z, just the really bad people, the people I don't like, people who don't take a «final chance»
at death, some other grouping?
What does that have to do
with a legitimate chaplain that comes in
at your request to pray and talk about God and
faith?
i'll also say this, if and when she attends mass on sunday it will be no different than the other six days of the week that she conducts her life she can be
at peace
with her
faith.
Buckley was never a professional Catholic, in the sense of someone who made his living from the fact of his
faith, and his standing as a Catholic commentator may have declined when, in 1961, National Review responded to John XXIII's encyclical on Christianity and social progress, Mater et Magistra,
with an unsigned quip: «Mater si, Magistra no» (though most reports now ascribe it to a hotshot young writer
at the magazine named Garry Wills.)
It is far past the time that modernists such as yourself exit the doors and go find a good protestant Church to hang out
with your girlfriends
at, and leave the pious and devout followers of the
faith to represent it.
On the contrary, on the one occasion when Luther's theological proposals received a halfway careful hearing from a representative of the Roman Church,
at his meetings
with Cardinal Cajetan in Augsburg in 1518, the conclusion reached was that his doctrine of justifying
faith was not obviously heretical or in clear opposition to the tradition of the Church.
At the June
Faith & Freedom Conference run by former Christian Coalition chief Ralph Reed, Huntsman attempted to endear himself to the evangelical audience by crediting Jesus
with bringing his adopted Chinese daughter into his family.
Paul was simply encouraging everyone in their
faith, and as a matter of fact he was soon to have his head chopped off
at the hands of Caesar, so what good did it do hiim if he was trying to control people
with his letters?
Faith has no role in government and if a particular site was built
with public money, either you put all religious and non-religious symbols up or non
at all!!
But in an open forum like this,
with vigorous discussion, people willing listen or
at least argue, and possibly people who are on a journey to or from
faith, I think it's an appropriate discussion to have — although it sometimes gets a bit heated.
As Obama said, we are not
at war
with Islam, so by provifing OBL a burial in accordance
with the Muslim
faith (though I suspect sea burials are not common) we have made it clear that we are not out to offend Muslims.
We have the lowly
at the bottom who have little except for their «
faith», then you have the guys
with a special link to their «deity», who preach to the lowly about all their «sins»... I wonder what's in it for the creator?
With regard to another post regarding
faith... I have seen my preemie child struggling for life... I have held the hand of an old person as they slipped from life to death... I have stood vigil in the room of a man of
faith as over 40 friends and family crammed into a room sharing pain and suffering as he slipped away suffering from cancer
at a young age.
No one can have a strong lasting
faith without
at least one powerful experience
with God.
And Sukhanov rediscovers an old friend, Belkin, who had kept the
faith and has remained pitifully poor, but is
at peace
with himself.
What is wrong
with asking Christians to look
at their
faith objectively as opposed to just nodding in sync
with their indoctrination?
They laugh
at Christians
with scorn for our «hope» and «
faith» and talk about how no one needs a savior because we're all basically good... also based on no evidence.