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Faith
* 'belief in' or a 'complete trust' in someone.
* All faiths have environmental teachings
  - periods of abstinence
  - work for some people
* Focuses Upon the Resurrection.
* IS the cross for which the world scorns the believer.
* Many faiths believe sexual intercourse is something that is to be saved for marriage
  - have stories of rainbows being a message from the heavens
  - use wine in rituals
* Most faiths accept either the absence of any actual, personal god, or else they worship many gods
  - are patriarchal, reflecting the societies in which they're based
* Some faiths claim that prayer is the ultimate personal experience
  - consider marriage an aid to religious instruction
  - prohibit drinking coffee
* acquires different qualities when it is in company with the mind of man.
* alone is the basis for our salvation.
* also has a growth pattern.
* also involves repentance or genuine sorrow for sin and willingness to turn away from sin
  - some paradoxes
  - the elements of trust, loyalty and commitment to someone or something
  - means confidence, as in the testimony and reputation of other people
  - plays a large part in how involoved a person is in a religion
  - transcends belief
* also works through love, love being the greatest casts out fear
  - to heal our relationship with the material environment
* always is the beginning or origin of action.
* begins where man's power ends
  - one knows and has experienced the limitations of rational thought
  - with knowledge
  - in the truth or trustworthiness of something
* believes and lives according to that belief.
* bird that feels the light and sings while the dawn is still dark.
* brings out the power of the mind.
* by-product of humility.
* call to action, to live differently.
* can alter vision
  - be good or bad, wise or stupid
  - bring people together because they all believe in the same thing
  - chase out fear, or fear can chase out faith
* can grow cold and weak very quickly
  - in a life where humility and gratitude make up the bulk of the soil
  - mean belief, trust, or faithfulness
  - refer to many things
  - see by revelation more than senses ever saw
  - transcend divisions and barriers created by racism, tribal conflicts, and hatred
* carries the sun inside itself and shines it out in the dark.
* causes a desire to kill
  - actions
* church committed to mission support, family ministries and community service
  - that wants to know what the Bible says and how it impacts our daily lives
* clear understanding of the revealed Word of God.
* comes by hearing, hearing with the heart.
* comes from knowledge
  - receiving the Word of God
  - trusting the birth and death process and rising from the ashes
  - what is heard, but it also comes from what is seen
* common ingredient in the human experience and in humankind's story.
* communal heritage
  - phenomenon
* complex of belief, confidence, obedience, love.
* comprehends everything, and without faith there is nothing.
* conceives the ideal of whatever is to be believed.
* condition of salvation, but it is also a gift.
* contact sport.
* corresponds to grace the way tasting sweetness corresponds to honey on the tongue
* creates a desire and joy in doing good things.
* decision involving one s whole existence
  - one's whole existence
* derives from seeing.
* dialogue between the soul and the self.
* dies when it is reduced to a custom, to a habit, to a purely emotional experience.
* direction of looking.
* divine gift.
* dominates reason, which ought to be subordinated to faith in everything.
* embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
* establishes reality and truth, including in science.
* exists and expresses itself in many forms.
* explains the way things are , which is another way of saying what is true.
* fire in the heart.
* firm belief in something for which there is no proof.
* fundamental part of our lives.
* generates energy to put things in motion.
* gift that everyone has
  - which needs to be cherished and encouraged
* gives birth to prayer
  - eyes to the soul
  - life meaning, purpose and direction
  - rise to practice and study, and practice and study serve to deepen one's faith
* grows as a living faith is shared
  - out of and builds upon belief and produces action
* guides the soul to go beyond.
* has a history of individuals and classes responding
  - long tradition of excellence in the fine arts, particularly in music
  - communitarian roots and social implications
  - little place in genealogy
* has nothing to do with probabilities
  - worldly understanding
  - profound impact
  - the power to embrace people in countless ways
* has to do with our experiencing the object of our faith in our heart
  - the most fundamental of human experiences
  - two elements
  - very real power to make things happen
* helps one cope with cancer.
* implies conviction, trust, and commitment
  - the idea of hope
* increases in the earth
  - with age
* involves a kind of living on the edge
  - being faithful
  - belief and prayer
* involves believing and acting upon that belief
  - the truth, but it is more than assent to the truth
  - commitment and risks
  - knowledge, trust and action
  - moral change
  - our minds, our hearts and our wills
  - the intelligence, the emotions, the instincts, the appetites
  - waiting on a promise
* is 'complete trust' or 'reliance upon'
  - Bible living
* is about beginning to see more clearly, about opening our eyes to the possibilities
  - being sure and certain of something
  - belief, hope, trust, and endurance
  - accepted as a substitute for a whole and complete righteousness
  - action and decision
* is all about trust and risk
  - in all, both in the beginning and progress of Christian life
  - that remains
* is also a power and can often make very special things happen
  - about honesty
  - important to the civility of our country
  - in the way of life
  - the result of teaching
* is always a gift to be shared
  - insecure, and intolerance is an expression of that insecurity
  - the way of, though never the reason for, salvation
* is an absolute, unreasoning belief in something
  - abstract idea that can help or be abused
* is an act of acceptance
  - the spirit, but presumption is the flesh trying to imitate the spirit
  - trust at conversion and an attitude of trust throughout life
  - that catches up the entire personality
* is an action verb to be done something with
  - word - a verb
  - actual substance of positive life giving energy and power
  - assertion of transcendent meaning when faced even with the injustice of death
  - assimilating grace
  - assortment of dignified religious ceremonies
  - assumption, makes an affirmation, and takes an action
  - element of childhood
  - essential attribute of a scientist
  - example of taking results out of the future
* is an important part of our lives, inside and outside of religious matters
  - the fabric of our society
  - word in the Bible
  - inner tunic of such pure whiteness that it blinds the sight of every intellect
  - interchange between persons
  - intrinsic part of each moment of our daily lives
  - organ of knowledge, and love is an organ of experience
  - outgrowth of a relationship
  - another word for trust
  - as much a part of our life as breathing and sleeping
  - assent that goes beyond the evidence
  - assurance or a guarantee
* is based on experience
  - facts and evidenced by experience
  - knowledge, on intimate, personal knowledge
  - only on a sense of giftedness
* is basic at the point of entry to the Christian life
  - to human nature and, like human nature, it expresses itself in many forms
  - basically trust, and trust implies relationship
  - belief even in the face of contrary evidence
* is belief in action
  - spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence
  - the absence of evidence
  - what is unseen
  - plus action
* is belief without evidence
  - rational evidence
  - reasons
  - belief, trust in the honesty, and trust of another
  - bigotry and superstition
  - born in witness of signs
* is born of mystery, of promise, and of hope
  - the preaching which generates divine life in the ones who listen to it
  - when the heart is cracked open enough to receive
  - both spiritual and practical
  - central to the gospel which is proclaimed by faith
  - certain because it is founded on reason
  - commitment and trust
  - composed of the heart's intention
  - concerned with spiritual or heavenly things
  - confidence in the risen Savior
  - conscience, the foundation of which is laid in childhood
  - contagious and is easily spread
  - contrary to reality, as the world knows it
  - contrasted with the actual appearance of heavenly things
  - conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence
* is created by beliefs
  - credited as righteousness
  - deeper than either moral virtue or intellectual belief
* is defined primarily as that which is reasonable and makes the most sense
  - by personal experience and what makes sense
  - definitely a substance that all people utilize in one fashion or another
  - different from knowledge
  - energy, a force that provides the belief that South Africa can succeed
  - essential for healing
* is essential to salvation from our past sins
  - essentially a belief that our actions are founded on our beliefs
  - established conviction regarding things unseen and grounded expectation of things to come
  - evidenced in deeds
  - expectation based on a fact
* is expressed in holy living
  - love and service, in word and deed
  - through cultural expressions
* is faith wherever it is found and without regard to the age of the world in which it is found
  - whether young or old and it is the engine that runs the Kingdom
  - faith, whether it is in a god or in no god
  - famous to paleontologists
  - fear turned inside out
  - for that which lies on the other side of reason
  - formed through personal trusted relationships
  - fundamental in the Christian community
  - given through the language of the heart
  - governed by the spirit
  - identified as an important influence on the decisions and behaviors of teens
* is important in the total healing process, with or without medical treatment
  - to civility
  - in all things - from the beginning and right through our Christian life
* is in general the belief of the mind that a certain statement or condition is true
  - persuasion of the mind that a certain statement is true b
  - the hearing of an anointed word
* is increased by exercise, by being put into use
  - put to use
  - integrated with all facets of parenting
* is knowledge borne out of religious experience in the Christian and Catholic context
  - laughter at the promise of a child called laughter
  - life and work
* is life lived contrary to the evidence on every hand
* is like a medicine that is prescribed by a doctor
  - the difference between having read about how to make a cake and actually making one
  - lived within the individual, as an individual
* is located in churchs
  - synagogues
  - love on the battlefield
* is made possible by the in dwelling of the spirit and the revelation of scripture
  - up of belief and trust
  - manifest by obedience
* is meant to be shared
  - move mountains and uproot trees
  - mediated through the culture of the family, the tribe, the nation
  - mental, spiritual, and abstract
* is more than intellectual agreement with a statement or concept
  - religious observance
* is necessary for salvation, of which, the basic elements are courage, action, and risk
  - never just words or formulas
* is one of the big three right along with hope and love
  - thing when a stock is cheap and the future looks bright
  - only faith when there is no apparent reason or justification for it
  - opposed to sight, but never to reason
  - our supernatural intellect, so to say
  - perceived as a mental acceptance, a lack of doubt
  - personal trust or belief
  - pictured as a reality
  - political, social, and ethical
  - power, a talisman that works wonders
  - rather similar to repentance
  - really a way of living
  - reason's opposite
* is related to action, to living, to being and doing
  - response to evidence
  - revealed in the difficult times of life
  - rooted in the certainty of a clearer and more perfect perception of reality
  - security where no security can be seen
  - shared and spread one person at a time
  - shown in actions
  - sight and knowledge
* is simply another word for trust or confidence
  - one part of the whole process of salvation
  - the ability to believe without seeing
  - somehow a living thing, pulsating with the power of self fulfillment
  - something someone has about something when there is no evidence for it
* is something that comes from within
  - is to continue grow
  - works in funny ways
  - very different from belief
  - which transcends reasonableness, rationality, and even emotions
  - sometimes opposed to reason , and belief to knowledge
* is spiritual strength
  - touch
  - supposed to be able to move mountains
* is tested in suffering, and faith is also born in suffering
* is that assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen
  - foundational gift that expresses itself through a life of commitment
  - quality or power by which the things desired become the things possessed
* is that which a person holds to be the hard-boiled truth about reality
  - allows reason to flourish
  - has in it a principle of life
* is that which stands on realities, seen or unseen
  - under , or the foundation, of things hoped for
* is the Amen, the righteousness by going to the right hand
  - ability and the willingness to believe and act where doubt is still possible
* is the ability to be flexible in the unknown
  - look beyond the visible into the invisible
  - absence of all forms of doubt
  - activating force of the priesthood
  - actuating motive that leads to baptism and makes it effectual
  - agency of that salvation
  - answer to fear
  - antithesis of works
  - assent of the understanding to any truth
  - assurance of the heart in the adequacy of the evidence
* is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things unseen
  - unseen spiritual realities
  - what is hoped for and hope involves that which is unseen
* is the assurance that precedes the act which ultimately yields the evidence
  - that really real world exists
  - attitude of celebration
* is the basis for their moral conduct, social conscience, and sense of compassion and humanity
  - of testimony
* is the belief and conviction that all things are possible
  - in the unknown, as belief is the faith in the known
* is the belief of testimony, and where there is no testimony there can be no faith
* is the belief that Hashem exists
  - an ideal exists without proof
  - such new possibilities are there for the seeing
* is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark
  - light when the dawn is still dark
* is the bird that sings while it is still dark
  - it is yet dark
  - capacity to believe without proof
* is the channel on which the boats of answered prayer sail
  - through which salvation comes
* is the common denominator in every victorious man and woman
  - their beliefs becoming their reality
  - condition of the heart through which salvation is applied
  - confident assurance expressed in a song of belief
  - conviction that something unproved by physical evidence is true
  - cornerstone of any healthy relationship
  - courage to face reality with hope
  - criterion of the superiority of the Muslim society
  - critical element without which any ritual or religious practice is meaningless
  - critique of the past and gives meaning to the present
  - crown of creation
* is the cure for our doubts and our fears
  - to doubt
  - currency of eternity
  - daring of the soul to go farther than it can see
  - delicate balance between giving and receiving
  - diametrical opposite of hardness of heart
  - element which allows our imagination to break free of the constraints of knowledge
  - enduring quality which forms the basis for hope
  - energy of motivation, providing multitudes of deeds
  - enlightenment of the understanding
  - essential prerequisite of true repentance
  - eye for seeing the invisible
  - eyes, ears, and hands of the soul
* is the first grace and the source of all others
  - of the three theological virtues
  - principle in the science of theology
  - resting-place of the soul
* is the foundation for establishing our lives on an eternal course to happiness
  - from which hope is cast within the veil
* is the foundation of Christian character and the security of the soul
* is the foundation of all Christian graces
  - that man does
  - prayer, as belief is the foundation of religion
* is the foundation on which a life of obedience is built
  - all our hopes for the future are built
  - other things are built
  - fountain of courage and doubt the source of fear
  - fuel that drives both commerce and religion
  - full assurance of hope
  - fundamental key to success in spiritual life
  - gate that opens our minds and hearts, removing boundaries and limitations
  - good key that unlocks the door
  - ground of Christian belief, and it always has been
* is the hand by which the soul takes hold upon the divine offers of grace and mercy
  - which grasps
* is the highest expression of belief or confidence
  - passion in a human being
  - indispensable prelude to the beatific vision, the supernatural end of man
  - inescapable foundation to life
  - initial window of the soul that lets the light of the revelation of righteousness in
  - instrument by which righteousness is procured
  - instrumental cause of forgiveness
  - key that touches the Savior
* is the key to getting people free of demons
  - holiness
* is the key to the Christian life
  - lions' jaws
  - which unlocked the door
  - law of life
  - life of the soul
  - lifeline that binds Torah and the soul to the real world
  - main support of life
* is the means of appropriating the shield
  - which brings about our sanctification
  - medium of the latent expectations that form the basis of one s subjectivity
  - mightiest force in the universe
  - most powerful force in the universe
  - mother of sweetness, confidence and joy
  - noun form and believe is the verb form of the same Greek word
  - one great condition of prayer
* is the only condition of sanctification
  - crisis of life
  - cure for fear
  - guarantee, Where risk is all, of our integrity
  - way of opening up the depths of reality, even one's own reality
  - operating principle of life
  - operative principle of kingdom citizenship
* is the opposite of fear
  - refusal
  - skepticism
  - origin of the Path and the mother of all merit and virtue
  - overcoming principle in the world's conflict
  - placing of one's trust in someone or something
  - posture of openness
  - power of love
* is the power that created the universe
  - destroyed the walls of Jericho
  - powerful ability to do great things
  - precursor to knowledge
  - principal saving grace, and unbelief the chief damning sin
  - principle of all holy and acceptable obedience
* is the real content, meaning and gist of anything spoken or written
  - or essential part or element of anything
  - response dimension of the relationship
  - restful experience of the work of grace in our lives
  - result of our believing
  - same as trust
  - sight of the soul, and it is far better than the sight of the senses
  - simplest example of existential action
  - step beyond belief
  - stopgap to experience
  - story of fisherman going forth from their nets
* is the substance of hope
  - the things hoped for, the evidence of the unseen
* is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things unseen
  - substitute for knowledge when knowledge is unavailable
  - thing that brings success
  - title deed to things hoped for
  - tool by which religion makes truth
  - underlying factor that explains why people do what they do
  - unspoken, nameless and formless yearning for completion and wholeness
  - vehicle of hope
  - very fabric of life in any field of endeavor
  - victory, that overcomes the world
  - vision of things unseen
  - work in which all works is embodied
  - thought of as something that one believes blindly - with no supporting evidence
* is to believe in divine possibilities
  - that greatness can be embedded within the frailty of our own fallibility
  - promote unity and understanding among people of different backgrounds
  - sin what light is to darkness
* is to the soul what life is to the body
  - spiritual realm what the five senses are to the natural realm
  - true knowledge, of course, it is the knowledge of the truth
* is trust in another, hope in another, being vulnerable to another, even loving another
  - the healing powers of the mind
  - internalized
* is trust, based on experience
  - dependence, believe, obedience
  - while faithfulness is the ability or quality of maintaining or keeping trust
  - understood as trusting personal acceptance of the truth of the gospel
* is used for trust
  - usually a product of desire
  - vivified, vitalized, living belief
  - voluntary submission within a person's own power
* is what carries the day, rather than arms
  - happens when hope and trust come together
  - integrates the knowing and the unknowing
* is what is left when there is nothing left to do
  - what can be stripped away, is
  - there when there's no one around
  - it takes for each survivor to learn to become human again
  - makes one invincible
  - results from belief allowing itself to be questioned, examined, tested
  - witnessed by acts of charity and justice
* is woven into every aspect in our daily lives
  - the fabric of life
  - written throughout the geography and the history of the heartland
* is, above all, openness-an act of trust in the unknown
  - effectively, both a noun and a verb
  - in simple terms, belief and trust
* leads to confidence, trust, loyalty, and allegiance
  - growth and growth leads to practical results in life and service
  - prayer and is nourished by prayer
* leap against logic, a product of desire.
* life-long process of exploration and discovery, filled with detours and questions.
* lights up the eye of the human, which has the capability to spark the heart of the world.
* living, dynamic relationship that is more akin to trust than anything else.
* looks beyond the physical world into what is invisible and eternal.
* loose term generally applied to emotional attachment.
* makes a difference in the lives of people
  - life possible in the physical world as well as in the spiritual world
  - people believe
* makes the difference in the world, and it makes a difference in our lives
  - heart a sacristy or holy of holies
* matter of belonging
  - life and death
  - memorizing truth and living by it
* matter of personal choice
  - taste, like enjoying theater or playing golf
* meaningful human activity.
* means belief in something without proof it exists or happens or happened
  - believing in something even if there is no evidence, even in spite of counter-evidence
  - fidelity, loyalty, and honor among men
  - showing everybody else how pious one is
  - taking the risk of really believing
  - that a new life has been planted in the soul
  - to trust and to let oneself be led
  - trust, conviction, and is coupled with obedience
* mental capacity, and an action is in the material world.
* mindset, a context, a way of life in which all the other things of our life are set.
* much richer word that implies a living relationship.
* negation of reason.
* non-rational belief in some proposition.
* often exists in contradiction to reason.
* only has meaning when faith has an object.
* overcomes the illusion of the darkness, of evil.
* part of salvation.
* peculiar type of obedience.
* personal issue and individual for each family.
* persuasion and assent to truth upon the authority of another.
* plays a rather limited role in the daily lives of psychopathic ministers
  - significant role in whole person wellbeing
* power which moves mountains.
* powerful law of the Kingdom of God.
* powerfully affects the way one lives and what one becomes.
* precursor to trust.
* present because it presence.
* presents the central religious problem for the Western world today.
* produces miracles, salvation, healing, answers, and revival.
* product of the inner man.
* provides people with a sense of morality, duty and loyalty that extends beyond ideology.
* puts the fire in the blood and strengthens the heart, thus faith brings fearlessness.
* reaches to the unseen, and grasps eternal realities.
* refining grace, it consecrates and purifies.
* refusal to panic.
* relationship of love.
* requires openness and, often, the suspension of belief.
* resides in the baptism and in the hope that it confers forgiveness.
* response to evangelism.
* resulting in action is the only kind of faith that is real.
* saving power.
* school that exists in the midst of a thriving economy and a group of thriving churches.
* seems to be an occupational hazard for physicists.
* sees the future as a present reality
  - things that are out of sight
* series of steps.
* serves as our spiritual hands by which the gift is received at a particular moment in time.
* shapes every aspect of their lives.
* sign of health.
* source of strength for many people.
* stronger and more consistent motivation for obedience than fear
  - drive in the face of danger than fear
* synonym for trust.
* takes a threefold aspect in accordance with the inherent nature or tendencies of the man.
* tangible force, the basic substance of the universe.
* then has three elements - knowledge, belief, and trust
  - is the link, the one link, between the sinner and the Sin-bearer
* total attitude toward life.
* treasure of life which is enriched by being shared.
* trust that what happens is supposed to happen.
* trusting, a love.
* turns hope into assurance, conviction, and reality.
* verb, an action word.
* very common commodity exercised daily in everyday affairs
  - important part of farming and everyday life
* virgin grace, it is joined with sanctity.
* virtue of certitude that has to exist without even an aorta of distrust or doubt
  - which there is so little
* vital act of the new-born soul
  - newborn soul
* volitive act that transcends knowledge.
  - sight, insight and imaginative reflection and devotion and commitment
* woman sitting in a folding chair.
* word signifying action
* work of the spirit.
* works in combination with love
  - only by love
* worldwide religion with more than five million members around the globe.
+ Human, Culture, null, Religion and spirituality: Hominins
  * Religion is a belief in a higher being, spirit, or any system of ideas a group of people believe in. People who believe something strongly have faith in whatever it is they believe. Faith can bring people together because they all believe in the same thing. Millions of people believe in God, some people are very religious, some people are atheist and believe in no god, and some people believe a mixture of science and religion.