Sentences with phrase «faith in the justice»

He could not renounce his claim that his faith in God and his faith in justice should once again be united.
I have very firm faith in the justice system and will wait for that process to unfold before making any further comments,» he said.
«Today's ruling shakes society's faith in our justice system to the core,» Skelos» Senate replacement, Todd Kaminsky, said in a statement.
«I have a great deal of faith in the justice system.
«I have faith in the law and faith in the justice system,» she said, tearing up as she spoke.
There is all kinds of evidence, and Katja even saw the woman plant the bomb, so she puts her faith in the justice system.
Having lost all faith in the justice system, Meredith tries to save herself and others from her father, a child molester recently released from prison.
She has little faith in justice and is afraid her involvement will put her at risk.
It also revealed that women had less faith in our justice system than men.
But others argued that criticizing the verdict, or even a trial in which the defence challenged and excluded all potential jurors of apparent Indigenous ancestry, would undermine faith in the justice system.
Being a personal injury lawyer is no easy job; you need to believe in your client, have faith in the justice system, and, very importantly, learn and develop the skills necessary to convince a judge and jury that the clients we represent are not overreaching or crying out for mere sympathy, but instead are persons deserving of civil justice.
(«With so many Canadians losing faith in the justice system — or feeling shut out of it entirely — change seems inevitable.»
Sherif Rizk, an Egyptian and a «lawyer - in - progress» at Ottawa University, said the majority need to show a commitment to equity, if for no other reason than it strengthens faith in the justice system for people to see themselves represented in its players.
«While the insurance industry will undoubtedly celebrate this financial victory, it has come at the expense of all those victims who had faith in our justice system,» he says.
If encouraging faith in the justice system were genuinely a priority for Mr. MacKay, he could start by reminding Canadians that crime across nearly every statistic is down meaningfully year over year every year for decades with a particularly stark decrease noted just in 2013 alone.
I didn't feel my faith in the justice system swelling at those comments.
It is hard to take seriously complaints of a loss of faith in the justice system from a government that has brought us its fair share of justice - related gaffes.

Not exact matches

By contrast, Delaware Chancery Court Judge Leo Strine, now chief justice of the state Supreme Court, wrote in the Wake Forest Law Review: «Corporate law requires directors, as a matter of their duty of loyalty, to pursue a good faith strategy to maximize profits for the stockholders.»
«Students don't have faith in [Yale's] disciplinary system to adjudicate fairly and give out justice and appropriate punishments,» she said.
«Students don't have faith in [Yale's] disciplinary system to adjudicate fairly and give out justice and appropriate punishments,» Price says.
«It's clearer than ever now that the attorney general can not, in good faith, oversee an investigation at the Department of Justice and the FBI of the Trump - Russia connection, and he must recuse himself immediately,» Franken said.
Mr. Rosenstein, America depends on you to restore faith in our criminal justice system, which is going to be badly shattered after the administration's actions today.
If it's justice the victims want, then, they'd better put their faith in the Mounties.
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A polemicist might well have salty things to say about this abdication of moral principles that Christians have held since the earliest days of the faith, but in Wilcox's mild and irenic diction the mainline churches are simply «accommodationist,» espousing what he calls a «Golden Rule Christianity» that honors tolerance, kindness, and social justice as paramount virtues.
That's why Mattie, in a decisive sense, lacks faith: God doesn't provide justice; we have to achieve that for ourselves.
Unless it was meant for us as a new system to drop Republican systems for the Royalist systems that are taking place now that Jordan and Morocco both Royelists are planed to join GCC as one with a change to the name of the GCC since the Royalist empire will be extending to countries outer of the Arabian Gulf Countries... What ever it is all we need is freedom of rights, justice, peace, equality and to live in prosperity... Egypt is not in the heart of Egyptions only but as well in the heart of every Arabic nation, Egyptions were our teachers in our schools and Egypt was the university of our Yemeni students... Egypt was the source of islamic educations, Egypt was the face of all arts, books, papers, TV plays and movies to all of Arabian speaking countries... Egypt is our Arabian Icon so please please other nations are becoming larger and stronger in the area on your account as a living icon for the Arabian Unity what ever our faiths or beliefs are we are brothers in blood, culture and language, God Bless to All.Amen.
I am convinced that the question of justice constitutes the essential argument, or in any case the strongest argument, in favor of faith in eternal life.
Faith, hope, and love are the three «theological virtues,» meaning that they are the gift of grace, in contrast to the natural virtues of prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice.
Only God can enact true justice and we are just extremely fortunate that God chooses mercy for those who put faith in His son.
The faith of the West too easily devolves into philosophical rationalization about divine Justice, rather than faith in the covenantal relationship with a just and loving God.
The chapter covering this period is one of the best in the book, with its careful account of how Bonhoeffer's censorious judgment of the superficiality of American religious liberalism gradually gave way to admiration for the central place of social justice and for the vital religious faith of the oppressed black Christians whom he met at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem.
Standing under the word in prayer while waiting for the clarification of the Spirit will satisfy neither those who argue for «justice now» nor those for whom the faith itself is at stake in this issue — and those people will necessarily continue their professions and protestations.
She suggested that the five justices who formed the majority - all of whom are Catholic - don't understand what it's like to belong to a minority faith in America.
At the end of our lives, some of us might finish far away from Point Z perhaps but it took a tremendous amount of courage and faith to end up at Point P. And so we can celebrate any movement towards justice and wholeness in each other, however far from perfect.
In terms of how my faith played a part in making that decision, God is the God of justice, these things are evil, and it is biblical, right, and godly to pursue justicIn terms of how my faith played a part in making that decision, God is the God of justice, these things are evil, and it is biblical, right, and godly to pursue justicin making that decision, God is the God of justice, these things are evil, and it is biblical, right, and godly to pursue justice.
David Mills is Executive Officer of First Things Justice, Peace and the Martyrs Thousands and possibly tens of thousands of Christians die for the faith every year, notes Daniel Philpott, writing in the Jesuit magazine America.
«In this circumstance, religions that can not do justice to the value of other faiths will be less and less credible to their own believers.»
Whether we place our faith in science, religion, education, government, the justice system or nothing more than the accuracy of the tube map in the front of our diary, each one of us lives by faith in whatever we trust to be reliable and true.
It comes in standing with those whose faith carries them through the persevering fight for justice long enough to see actual change for anyone who loves their neighbors as themselves.
In the next clause, «these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others,» the demonstrative «these» refers to what is nearest in the context, the weightier matters of the law: that is, «justice and mercy and faith» should have prior attention, but the minor duties should be done toIn the next clause, «these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others,» the demonstrative «these» refers to what is nearest in the context, the weightier matters of the law: that is, «justice and mercy and faith» should have prior attention, but the minor duties should be done toin the context, the weightier matters of the law: that is, «justice and mercy and faith» should have prior attention, but the minor duties should be done too.
That is, many contemporary theologies tend to believe that we can derive the normative content of faith, truth and justice directly from the immediate contexts of our social, economic and political situations; at the same time, other contemporary theologies have abandoned even trying to argue that theological claims are in any sense normative.
«She suggested that the five justices who formed the majority — all of whom are Catholic — don't understand what it's like to belong to a minority faith in America.»
Jesus confronted the Pharisees because of their lack of exactness concerning inward purity, justice balanced with mercy and their lack of faith in God.
He is the co-founder and director of Ohio Prophetic Voices, a movement of faith leaders and clergy engaged in a biblically rooted struggle for economic and racial justice.
Finally, apart from being a matter of justice, it is also of course a question of faith and trust in God - always tests of the Christian life.
Our theological beliefs about the community of faith, the images of God we find meaningful, ethical perspectives based on our understanding of justice and care, and our interpretation of suffering and healing, sin and forgiveness, ground us and guide us in responding to the crises of members of our congregations.
Troy Jackson is the interim executive director of the AMOS Project, a faith - based organizing effort in Cincinnati fighting for racial justice.
And religious faiths often inspire individuals and communities to transcend their limitations in acts of reconciliation and justice through human rights campaigns and acts of mercy.
Vermeer lives in the Chicago suburbs and blogs about the intersections of faith and feminism and, increasingly, social justice issues on her blog, From Two to One.
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