By the fourth century, however, " confessors "— people who had confessed their faith not by dying but by word and life — began to be venerated publicly.

Faith involves more than outward obedience to this authority, but also must be based on a deep personal understanding of religious teachings. By faith is meant, first, conscious knowledge, and second, the practice of good deeds.

By the 1930s, several faith healers drew large crowds and established worldwide followings.

By the late 1940s, Oral Roberts was well known, and he continued with faith healing until the 1980s.

By all accounts, both teams ' players thought Australia would win the match ; indeed the England team had enjoyed a raucous barbecue chez Botham on the Saturday evening, such was their lack of faith in a positive result.

By AD 354, Hilary of Poitiers wrote that the Manichaean faith was a significant force in southern Gaul.

By reason one asks questions of faith and seeks to understand God's action and will.

In July of the same year, in Seoul, South Korea, the Member Churches of the World Methodist Council ( WMC ) voted to approve and sign a " Methodist Statement of Association " with the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification ( JDDJ ), the agreement which was reached and officially accepted in 1999 by the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation and which proclaimed that " Together we confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ ’ s saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works ... as sinners our new life is solely due to the forgiving and renewing mercy that God imparts as a gift and we receive in faith, and never can merit in any way ," affirming " fundamental doctrinal agreement " concerning justification between the Catholic Church, the LWF, and the World Methodist Council.

By 1211 the Livonian province of Metsepole ( now Limbaži district ) and mixed Livonian-Latgallian inhabited county of Idumea ( now Straupe ) was converted to the Roman Catholic faith.

By inter-religious pluralism, we mean the views held within one major faith tradition ( e. g., Christianity ) about the validity or truth of other major faith traditions ( e. g., Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, etc .).

# By the time of Jesus ' ministry, Judaism had ceased to be a living faith.

By the " law ", he meant God's requirements both in Old and New Testament ; the " gospel " meant the free gift of grace through faith in Jesus Christ.

By the early 1940s, however, Jesuit theologian John Courtney Murray perceived that the most important coming challenge was secularism, a challenge that could best be confronted by many faith communities working together.

By 1943 the Italian people had lost faith in Mussolini and no longer supported the war ; Italy had lost its colonies, the allies had taken North Africa in May, and Sicily had been invaded in July.

By 1528, less than ten years after the start of the Reformation, the lords of the Frankish margrave territories switched to the Lutheran faith.

By these 2 examples set apart, one is made better aware of the necessity of a greater understanding, of the potential of virtue, as it is paralleled here by both ; in " substance ,' ' actions ' and by the ' Person " of Christ Jesus or The Living Word of God, that each doing their own parts and / or in parallel, act on faith, with virtue and according to Biblical reference, are able to manifest miracles, by the Word of God.

By the 1840s, some Hicksite Quakers determined to bring women and men together in the faith as an expression of their spiritual equality.

By chanting mantras, maintaining mudras, or practicing certain forms of meditation, Tendai maintains that one is able to understand sense experiences as taught by the Buddha, have faith that one is innately an enlightened being, and that one can attain enlightenment within the current lifetime.

By Aiden ’ s death in 651, the Christian faith was becoming well-established in the area.

By the Father, Son and Holy Ghost that henceforth we would not adhere to the Franks, nor accept the faith of the Pope of Rome

By destroying Israel, by the Shoah, they ultimately wanted to tear up the taproot of the Christian faith and to replace it with a faith of their own invention: faith in the rule of man, the rule of the powerful.

By all means the most important distinction is that between those total-cost apportionments which superimpose a distribution of admittedly unallocable cost residues on estimates of incremental or marginal costs, and those other apportionments which recognize no difference between true cost allocation and mere total-cost distribution.

Puttenham, in the time of Elizabeth I of England, wished to start from Elissabet Anglorum Regina ( Elizabeth Queen of the English ), to obtain Multa regnabis ense gloria ( By thy sword shalt thou reign in great renown ); he explains carefully that H is " a note of aspiration only and no letter ", and that Z in Greek or Hebrew is a mere SS.

By 1874 there were a mere 33 New Zealand residents born in Ceylon.

By the action of the Emperor Maximilian and of other German princes they were, in the 16th century, once more restricted to Westphalia, and here, too, they were brought under the jurisdiction of the ordinary courts, and finally confined to mere police duties.

By contrast, the rest of Europe combined sent only 882, 412 people from 1500 to 1795, and the fleet of the English ( later British ) East India Company, the VOC ’ s nearest competitor, was a distant second to its total traffic with 2, 690 ships and a mere one-fifth the tonnage of goods carried by the VOC.

By November the 300 Spanish colonists were reduced to a mere 100 accompanied by 70 of their original 100 slaves.

By 1933, the younger SS was no longer the mere bodyguard of Hitler and showed itself more suited to carry out Hitler's policies thereby taking over the previously held roles of the SA.

By the end of the Third Age, only mere fragments of the once-grand Elven civilization survived in Middle-earth.

By the end of the 1920s no more than 4, 000 people, children included, lived on some thirty kibbutzim, and they amounted to a mere 2. 5 % of Palestine ’ s Jewish population.

By May 1941, Williams had shaved the M2 rifle prototype from about to a mere.

By using animated characters, an advertisement may have a certain appeal that is difficult to achieve with actors or mere product displays.

By the beginning of the Tudor period, however, the blade-like flanges, originally made for offence, degenerated into mere ornaments, while the increased importance of the end with the royal arms ( afterwards enriched with a cresting ) resulted in the reversal of the position.

By the 1890s, minstrelsy formed only a small part of American entertainment, and by 1919 a mere three troupes dominated the scene.

By the time that the " tacit truce " had come to an end the Swedish forces were so demoralized that the mere rumour of a hostile attack made them retire panic-stricken to Helsinki ; and before the end of the year all Finland was in the hands of the Russians.

By the time the conflict was resolved in the fall of 1974, it was too late for a weakened franchise that had been forced to play, in the interim, at such bandboxes as Peterson Gym ( 3, 200 seats ) and Golden Hall, a mere ballroom.

By 1930, a mere 206 families had been rehoused to the new council houses from slums.

By the Sengoku Period, the consolidated Kawachi was the asset of Hatakeyama Tanenaga, but the real power was imbued in the shugodai, a title that passed into the hands of Yusa Naganori: the shugo came to be reduced to a mere figurehead.

By the following year negotiations into purchasing the rest of the remaining railway had proven successful and the group were able to buy it for a mere £ 75, 000 (£ as of ),.

By December 2009, that figure had fallen to a mere 1, 289.

By contrast, mere changes in citizenship, or working with allied militia, usually do not violate any law.

By contrast, a 2005 study by Georgetown University's Center for Applied Research on the Apostolate revealed that only 14 % of American Catholics take part in the sacrament of penance once a year, with a mere 2 % doing so more frequently.

By now, the issue had grown beyond the mere procurement of an annual quota of three ash trees, and encompassed a growing concern over commercial logging and the government's forest policy, which the villagers saw as unfavourable towards them.

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By that homage, Sanudo chose to become the vassal of the Emperor to avoid ending a mere governor of the islands in the name of Venice.

By mere coincidence, the call letters were chosen in 1987 ( as a construction permit ) as WNAB ; something that would be exploited when the station became affiliated with The WB.