Sentences with phrase «unity mchs»

As the English puritan Richard Baxter says: «In essentials unity; in non-essentials liberty; in all things love.»

Archbishop Eamon Martin, the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, said: «At this sad time, I also want to remember his sterling commitment to Christian unity and his work for the relationship between all who follow Christ.»

As for Augustine's intellectual life, Brown sees more unity in Augustine's thinking than he did earlier.

They saw in such global commerce a worldly illustration of the unity of the human race and how the mystical body of Christ works, each distinctive part contributing to the others.

Only when this loosely held notion of unity in diversity is held in tension in a community of love can we tolerate, even with wit and a slightly ironic eye, the idea of corporate worship, communal learning, organized fellowship, and the traditions of the church.

Based on Acts 2:38 («repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ»), this formula underscores the Oneness commitment to God's absolute unity.

I have no problem knowing that this vast diversity of humanity is all subsumed under a deeper, imperceptible unity.

One of the glories of Catholicism is its unity amid diversity.

Those who sabotage the Council today are letting petty squabbles and impulses towards ethnic self - isolation prevail over walking together towards unity.

New resolutions can act as a rallying cry for further work on racial justice and racial unity, allowing SBC entities, churches and organizations to point to this resolution as a reason for continuing to preach, teach and speak out.

Your religions created more hatred than love, more division than unity, and much more conflicts than peace.

Of course, this action, to condemn the alt - right, is just a small part of much work to be done on racial unity.

I like what you said about American unity islamically however, I don't think you know what you're talking about.

I know I should preach for family love and unity, but in their case...,» and then her voice trailed off.

• The quest for Christian unity was the subject of Walter Cardinal Kasper's address to the cardinals at the November consistory.

In my little book As I Lay Dying, I reflected on the unity of body and soul and wrote, «The body remembers.»

Together we can rejoice in the longing for unity which the Lord has awakened in our hearts, which makes us look with hope to the future.

Christ's great unanswered prayer is for Christian unity and if our hearts are to echo his heart cry, we must learn to pray together and love one another, not just notionally from afar but in practical, relational ways.

Because of its strong commitment to the unity of God over against Trinitarianism, the Apostolic Church of Ethiopia (ACE) to which Hailemariam Desalegn belongs is not a member of the Evangelical Churches» Fellowship.

Encyclical Logic Reading Douglas Farrow's interpretation of Benedict XVI's latest encyclical, Caritas in Veritate («Charity & Unity,» October 2009), either he or the pope seems to be prompting Christians to aim their efforts toward the foolhardy task of encouraging the world to embrace an all - encompassing political authority so that the ends of God may come to fruition in the unity of all mankind.

In Lumen Fidei Pope Francis writes, «We find it hard to conceive of a unity in one truth.

Paul reminded them — and Christians today — that being part of the Church means being part of a family, and that means sacrificing and compromising for the sake of unity (1 Corinthians 1:10).

Perfect unity as it was intended.

If «Sharia» had the capacity to always dispense justice with compassion and mercy, I would (even as a non-Muslim) vote for it to be used as a court tool for unity and equal treatment.

A majority of the local churches desire to «walk together» (the literal meaning of the word «synod» or council) towards unity, while a minority desire ethnic isolation.

By the time Pope Benedict XVI addressed the U.N. General Assembly on the sixtieth anniversary of the UDHR in 2008, opportunistic uses of human rights were in full swing, prompting the pope to announce, «Efforts need to be redoubled in the face of pressure to reinterpret the foundations of the Declaration and to compromise its inner unity so as to facilitate a move away from the protection of human dignity towards the satisfaction of simple interests, often particular interests.»

All the added ritual and laws by the Catholic Church and politicized evangelical for example followed the footprint of the Jewish leaders of Jesus day that brought darkness, hate and division rather than unity and love.

It was at this moment of common faith and common baptism — akin to the union of spirituality and ethnicity in Judaism — that the ecclesiastical unity was fractured.

«Therefore, the Church, with a renewed sense of responsibility, continues to propose marriage in its essentials - offspring, good of the couple, unity, indissolubility, sacramentality - not as ideal only for a few... but as a reality that, in the grace of Christ, can be experienced by all the baptized faithful.»

And I believe that eventually we will see all those divisions fall away and truly achieve the unity that Jesus prayed for us to experience in practice and not merely in a spiritual detached sense.

It should be no surprise to Catholics, who know that their faith has a unity, that it is actually possible to live out the «integral ecology» which Pope Francis outlines.

He reminded the diplomats and dignitaries that the UDHR «was adopted as a «common standard of achievement» and can not be applied piecemeal, according to trends or selective choices that merely run the risk of contradicting the unity of the human person and thus the indivisibility of human rights.»

That's absorption, not unity.

I was honored that such a distinguished collection of Catholic intellectuals would stand in unity with their black brothers and sisters in defense of life, family, and justice for the poor.

[Ours] is a unity [amidst a] great and vigorous diversity based on respect for man, the individual....

It only represents faith, love, care, unity and solace.

Although there have been variations through history in the exercise of that governance, and may be further variations in order to accommodate a fuller expression of Christian unity, Catholics believe that Christ has endowed the Church with a permanent apostolic structure and an infallible teaching office that will remain until the Kingdom is fully consummated.

The result of that evolution, Evangelical Catholicism, is an expression of the four enduring marks of Christian ecclesial life — unity, holiness, catholicity, and apostolicity.

The unity with God that constitutes Paradise is to will the good of the other, to be one with God's own love for all.

Evangelical Catholics know what «all that» is by reference to what is taught by the bishops of the Church in full communion with the bishop of Rome, the vital center of the Church's unity, who bears a special responsibility for preserving the integrity of the truth Christ left to his Church.

What saddens me is that the church, which should be leading the way in that regard, proves itself again and again to be the greatest stumbling block to that unity.

In 2017, he joked that «inside the Holy Trinity they're all arguing behind closed doors, but on the outside they give the picture of unity.»

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Like a flower, it has blossomed and continues to blossom, opening up in unspeakable unity and eternal beauty.

Still, Bonhoeffer's presence at what he called «quite a wonderful Mass» did bear witness to a kind of broken unity, a sanctorum communio not yet fully realized in the visible church of the undivided Christ here and now.

When we pray for our friends, our concern for and unity with them is strengthened.

It is as if Benedict is bringing back into play the long - neglected lessons of St. Augustine to Catholic Social Thought — re-presenting, as it were, The City of God — that is, the City of that caritas which the Divine Persons gratuitously pour into the human heart, that it might cast the burning desire for human unity into the kindling of hundreds of millions of parched hearts.

Guarino, who teaches at Seton Hall University, holds that recognizably orthodox Christian thought can accommodate postmodernity's difficulties with identity and difference, unity and pluralism.

«As a theological decision, it is a step away from efforts toward unity,» Archbishop Leo of the Finnish Orthodox Church noted.

What the church is meant to be, Piper et al, is a mutually honouring balance of the masculine and the feminine, in harmony and unity, together, thus reflecting the nature of God.