The Gift of FaithChurch Publishing, Inc., 2004 - 152 páginas |
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... Religion or faith is not a question of whether or not we choose to ( as it is so commonly put ) " have a relation- ship with God . " Looking at our life in a larger context than just our life here on Earth , it becomes apparent that ...
... Religion or faith is not a question of whether or not we choose to ( as it is so commonly put ) " have a relation- ship with God . " Looking at our life in a larger context than just our life here on Earth , it becomes apparent that ...
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... victim . To seek after Faith , therefore , is to seek to climb back out of that amnesia . Religion or faith is the hard reclaiming of knowledge we once knew as a certainty.2 Act As If You Trust Robert Farrar Capon is an 8 THE GIFT OF FAITH.
... victim . To seek after Faith , therefore , is to seek to climb back out of that amnesia . Religion or faith is the hard reclaiming of knowledge we once knew as a certainty.2 Act As If You Trust Robert Farrar Capon is an 8 THE GIFT OF FAITH.
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... religious writers who want to explain what faith is not . " Let's consider our age to begin with [ the Queen said ] —how old are you ? " " I'm seven and a half , exactly . " " You needn't say ' exactly , " the Queen remarked . " I can ...
... religious writers who want to explain what faith is not . " Let's consider our age to begin with [ the Queen said ] —how old are you ? " " I'm seven and a half , exactly . " " You needn't say ' exactly , " the Queen remarked . " I can ...
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... religious enter- prise . As if the element of volition in faith were news . But of course we want it to be true . That's why we're here . If we didn't want it to be true , we'd believe in something else . Faith is not compelled by facts ...
... religious enter- prise . As if the element of volition in faith were news . But of course we want it to be true . That's why we're here . If we didn't want it to be true , we'd believe in something else . Faith is not compelled by facts ...
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... religion actually does more harm than good . In some ways , the truthfulness of Christian faith has to be left in the tender hands of the Holy Spirit , who alone can convince us and lead us into all truth . My hunch is that the Spirit ...
... religion actually does more harm than good . In some ways , the truthfulness of Christian faith has to be left in the tender hands of the Holy Spirit , who alone can convince us and lead us into all truth . My hunch is that the Spirit ...
Contenido
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The Leap of Faith | 47 |
Living by Faith | 75 |
The Company of the Faithful | 96 |
Notes | 127 |
List of Contributors | 133 |
Permissions | 136 |
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Pasajes populares
Página 32 - When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace ; but when a stronger than he shall come upon him and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.
Página 90 - Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon. My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Página 115 - To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Página 13 - Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.' Alice laughed. There's no use trying,' she said; 'one can't believe impossible things.
Página 93 - We have but faith: we cannot know, For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness: let it grow.
Página 93 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Página 76 - Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God.
Página 72 - In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's Preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed.
Página 108 - Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what that word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Página 4 - Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side; do not be faithless, but believing.' Thomas answered him, 'My Lord and my God!