Sentences with phrase «dignity as a human being»

And then to take pleasure in slinging it at others should be beneath your dignity as a human being.

The Jesus I know, who has helped me through my own abuse, is loving, forgiving, gracious and He does all to restore the broken persons dignity as a human being with worth and value.

I do my utmost to conceal my level of need from my church, so that I may retain my dignity as a human being.

And if they eschewed the economic benefits of reserved places in government service by refusing to claim any relationship with their ancestors castes, this was as much a testimony to their sense of dignity as human beings as it was a witness to their Christian faith.

This is the source of our dignity as human beings and the full meaning of being created «in the image of God».

Experimental procedures can be licit if they «respect the life and integrity of the embryo and do not involve disproportionate risks for it, but rather are directed to its healing, the improvement of its condition of health, or its individual survival»; but the mere «use of human embryos or fetuses as an object of experimentation» is «a crime against their dignity as human beings.»

Maleness and femaleness are essential components of our unique dignity as human beings created in the image of God, for through these realities we participate in the divine creativity and its fruitfulness.

«Chapter Five of the 1992 constitution of the Republic of Ghana guarantees Stephen's Security, Health, Life and dignity as a Human being.

With respect for human rights, that affirms our basic dignity as human beings and provides objective, transparent standards against which to measure our joint efforts.

Not exact matches

Or to put it more generously, the RFRA is designed to protect religious freedom, and to protect it even when your religion requires you to do something bad, such as violating another human being's right to be treated with dignity and respect.

As we look to the 150th anniversary of our Confederation, we are reminded that ours is a rich inheritance: a legacy of freedom; the birthright of all humanity and the courage to uphold it; the rule of law, and the institutions to protect it; respect for human dignity and diversity.

There are some discreditable reasons: like Victorians offended by the suggestion that they were descended from apes, some humanists imagine that their dignity is threatened when human society is represented as the moral equivalent of a dish on a turntable.

Bottom line, people should not have to dress or behave in certain societally approved ways in order to be treated like human beings deserving of the same dignity as more privileged people.

The God - given gifts of science and technology should be used only as a means to respect and promote communities, life and human dignity.

For example, advocates of autonomy might defend euthanasia as death with dignity, while most Christian teaching judges euthanasia and physician - assisted suicide to be actions beneath and against human dignity.

As Mary Ann Glendon explains, the human - rights tradition is founded on «human dignity» and cognate liberal terms.

Noting that two generations of Catholic leaders, including popes, have regarded human rights as important for the building of humane societies and have employed rights discourse themselves as a «bridge language» supporting the protection of human dignity, Reno declares that it is time for the Catholic Church «to rethink its enthusiasm for human rights.»

Start with the science that shows the humanity and individuality of the embryo, and then make philosophical arguments about the equality of all human beings as persons possessing inherent dignity.

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.»

As Zmirak writes, Röpke «centered his economics in the dignity of the human person, who lives not alone but as part of a family and a community; who thrives or suffers according to the health of those institutions; and who regulates his own economic activity according toýfinancial and personal incentives that he» and not the State» is best equipped to interpret.&raquAs Zmirak writes, Röpke «centered his economics in the dignity of the human person, who lives not alone but as part of a family and a community; who thrives or suffers according to the health of those institutions; and who regulates his own economic activity according toýfinancial and personal incentives that he» and not the State» is best equipped to interpret.&raquas part of a family and a community; who thrives or suffers according to the health of those institutions; and who regulates his own economic activity according toýfinancial and personal incentives that he» and not the State» is best equipped to interpret.»

The state should be run in accordance with what is best to maintain human dignity and a standard of living that we as a people can all agree on.

If it is, in fact, human begetting that expresses our equal dignity, we should not lightly set it aside in a manner as decisive as cloning.

Yes, granting dignity and treating others as human beings is a great gift, one that in many ways, science and technology has taken away from us.

Weigel does not hesitate to state that the present pope may someday be known as «John Paul the Great,» particularly for his unstinting defense of human dignity in the face of political and cultural barbarisms.

It would be better, we think, to use the new means at hand to reduce human suffering as much as we can while protecting human freedom and dignity.

One might go further and point out that the concept of «person» helps us understand human dignity as something deriving from the fact of one's intrinsic being» rather than from the extent of freestanding autonomy, the «quality of life,» that a person might demonstrate.

This is another human dignity often trampled by the church: the right to disclose as much or as little as you wish, and still be welcomed, encouraged, supported.

That this provision has now been challenged by a health board is deeply troubling and symptomatic of an aggressive pro-abortion regime; it is also a sign of a weakening in regard for human conscience as the safeguard of human dignity.

«Whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery... the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others of their like are infamies indeed... they are a supreme dishonour to the Creator.»

Ours is indeed a consumeristic culture, the kind that too often turns people into commodities, and I believe Christians can speak into that culture in a unique, life - giving way — not only as it concerns sex - on - demand, but also as it concerns food - on - demand, celebrity - on - demand, stuff - on - demand, cheap - goods - on - demand, pornography - on - demand, entertainment - on - demand, comfort - on - demand, distraction - on - demand, information - on - demand, power - on - demand, energy - on - demand, and all those habits that tend to thrive at the expense of the dignity and value of our fellow human beings or our planet.

A first element is the unconditionality with which human rights and human dignity should be presented as values that take precedence over any state jurisdiction.

A third, a physician in New York City, praised the Catholic tradition for its emphasis on human dignity and social justice, but added: «I am troubled by the fact that I find greater acceptance of myself as a whole person in my professional community as a physician, than I do in the official hierarchy of the church of my family, my childhood, and my life.»

There is no doubt that work, an adequate standard of living, health care, food, clothing, housing, and education are all human goods that are, as the Declaration says, «indispensable for [a person's] dignity and the free development of his personality» (Article 22).

Building on the Platonic understanding of hell as the place where unpunished violations of justice are requited, Schall argues it is the consequence of our free will («the other side of human dignity») and of the significance of human action, opening up trains of thought in the direction of the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body - and finding this all pleasurable, «even amusing» (p. 121) in terms of logic and reason.

Today this teaching is rarely regarded as easy to defend coherently, and even more rarely does it have an essential place in catechetical schemes, or in defences of human dignity, freedom and immortality.

The signatories declared themselves to be in solidarity in their unequivocal support of the dignity and right to life of every human person, marriage between a man and a woman as divinely ordained and the foundation of civil society, and religious liberty as an essential component of human freedom.

As Christians, we are always human beings, and human dignity and endeavours must always be of supreme importance.

It seems, perhaps, if we can find some way of seeing past what appears to be incongruity and instead perceive one another primarily as a fellow human being holding to being born with dignity and equality then we might be in a good place?

It is hoped that the socialist society, as visualized by Marx, gives people more social justice and security, more human dignity, more free time, better standards of living etc..

Women from Latin America say the same: «The Bible is a book about life and liberation... The Gospels restore to women our human dignity as persons loved and cherished by God.

We have every reason to value the dignity of human beings, and to praise the faculty of reason as something given to us by a loving God.

human beings, «born free and equal in dignity and rights,» are entitled to human rights «without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

The Christian understanding of human dignity is rooted in the fact that God has created us, become incarnate as one of us, and died for us.

And in place of those former traditions, the care of the woman's body and of her human dignity have come to be regarded as more significant than the institution itself.

Arguments that ground our dignity as humans in our capacities exclude those human beings who have either never possessed such rationality, or who have lost it (for example, through degenerative conditions) and have no chance to acquire it again.

The paper says it is «an affront to human dignity and worth» to produce a class of individuals to serve as disposable soldiers.

In ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, as also in encounters with those of no religion, all participants are of equal human dignity but their beliefs are not equally true.

Ever since the Enlightenment there has been a progressive tendency to deny original sin as an offense to human dignity, and to promote experiments in reaching for divinity.

For example, there is the left - leaning «progressive» tradition that locates human dignity and progress as its central affirmations.

One wonders how many novelists and, for that matter, how many sermonizers are prepared to confront in such detail this difficult fact about the human condition, that sooner or later most of us will be called on to give adults, to whom we are bound with the most powerful ties of love and respect, the services we associate with the care of an infant, with their sense of dignity, and our own, now and for all eternity, dependent on the delicate attention and sensitivity we bring to the task, even as they gaze upon us helpless and vulnerable.