Sentences with phrase «women of faith whose»

Many of the earliest and most effective advocates of women's rights and dignity were women of faith whose convictions were rooted in biblical truth.

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I think of Sarah as a big sister in the faith, a woman whose wisdom and maturity challenge me, but whose honesty and vulnerability remind me that she's walking by my side in this journey, one arm over my shoulder.

Because the Bible is the most effective force in history for lifting women to higher levels of respect, dignity, and freedom, we join an historic succession of women whose Christian faith is forged from biblical truth and whose lives are shaped into Christ's image on the anvil of obedience.

With a vision typical of Utopian «theologians» whose only real faith is in this - worldly peace and happiness, Noddings proposes that we give women power, and let women, and the femininity in men, rule.

And it is time for large churches to open their pulpits to those women, whose new and dynamic styles of leadership can enhance the faith experiences of Christians.

In the concentration camps and battlefields and political struggles of our day the Christian faith has its witness in men and women whose separate hopes have been shattered and yet whose hope has never been taken away.

In my youth, I saw witnesses all around me, men and women, rabbis and laity, whose evident fortitude of faith, whether in God or in the vitality of the Jewish people, made doubt inconceivable in their presence.

Christine Caine called her «a mighty woman of God» and «a true warrior» whose legacy continues among today's women of faith, including Caine's own daughters.

We are learning about women in history, both individual women whose contributions have been ignored or forgotten, and the masses of women in all cultures and periods of history who have had tremendous influence on the evolution of human society, from the invention of agriculture to the «keeping of the faith.»

Furthermore, it has insisted — and rightly — that Christianity is a faith and not a philosophical or ethical system; it is a faith in which affirmations are made about an historical person in whom God is believed to be specially at work; it has insisted that we have to do with a tradition which has been nourished by the lives of holy men and women, by saints and scholars, but which is based upon the gospel, whose grounding is in the scriptural record and witness and which therefore can not exist without constant reference to that «deposit» of God's self - revelation.

As Gleeson makes the rounds of his disillusioned flock — the only believer in the power of faith is a visiting French woman whose husband dies in a car wreck — we watch him struggle to bring some good into the world in the face of indifference, all the while knowing that he will probably die if he doesn't leave.

Stories written by a woman whose father was a notable and respected Sufi leader explored faith, identity and loyalty, all aspects of Noor's extraordinary background that fed into her exceptional character.

Rinku was attracted to the project because «Telling an untold story of an amazing woman whose faith was important, who went from writing and playing music to fight for her country is positive and inspiring.

Once hurt by a woman whose sole focus was her career, not the people in her life, he swore he would never allow himself to be attracted to this kind of woman again — until he meets the beautiful and captivating Faith Hamilton.

The show is an ode to my mother, a show given in her great and mighty name, the woman whose love and compassion gave rise to my permanent sense of ambition, belief, and faith in the prospects of crea

«The show is an ode to my mother, a show given in her great and mighty name, the woman whose love and compassion gave rise to my permanent sense of ambition, belief, and faith in the prospects of creating, for myself, a fulfilling future.»