Sentences with phrase «for injustice does»

For those who have woken up angry at their spouse for an injustice done in a dream, science suggests it's actually normal to want an apology.

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People do this for many reasons, whether it's because playing victim makes them feel good or because they believe it's their duty to crusade against injustice, and then they take it way too far.

«If we look at the Scriptures, we see a God who weeps with those going through pain, who is compassionate for those who suffer and condemns those who do injustice,» Reese said

The purely individual need for a fulfillment that is denied to us in this life, for an everlasting love that we await, is certainly an important motive for believing that man was made for eternity; but only in connection with the impossibility that the injustice of history should be the final word does the necessity for Christ's return and for new life become fully convincing.»

I dream of a movement that will agonize in prayer for weeks as Jesus did in the garden before beginning a direct action campaign against multinational corporations engaged in injustice abroad.

«If anyone asserts that Adam's sin affected him alone and not his descendants also, or at least if he declares that it is only the death of the body which is the punishment for sin, and not also that sin, which is the death of the soul, passed through one man to the whole human race, he does injustice to God and contradicts the Apostle, who says, «Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned» (Rom.

Its absence does not mean that process theologians lack a strong preference for justice over injustice.

I wonder what I am blind to, even today, while considering myself an ethical person; there are injustices right before my eyes that I do not recognize or acknowledge, but that I may be called on to answer for in years to come.

The establishment of the doctrine of divine omnipotence has set the stage for problematic attempts to shoehorn love back into the portrayal of divinity without doing injustices either to the notion of love or the understandings of power.

For the child of rape who struggles to forgive, the bad news is that she suffered a terrible injustice; the good news is that Jesus did too and he wants to fellowship with her in her suffering.

It can deal with the consequences of injustice but can not act against the bases of injustice; it is concerned for the misery of some individuals but does not see the multitude of the poor.

For example, many blacks have spoken out about ongoing racial injustice in the U.S., saying that Ferguson could happen and does happen all over America.

Living entails doing injustice: the fact that we can not breathe and eat without destroying organic life has symbolic meaning for our human existence.

The cry of injustice rising from these two cities has brought God to investigate: He does not rely on hearsay, He will see for Himself.

Being a woman doesn't give a person any special wisdom, but she may see injustices and useless Customs which men take for granted, indeed have a stake in not changing.

At the same time, many of the poor and the recently impoverished have opted for participation in churches that embrace forms of the «prosperity gospel,» which promises rapid physical healing and does not challenge structural injustices.

When you come into proximity with injustice something grows in you for God's heart, you don't have to learn it.

There was no injustice done, as He was taken the punishment for sin and sins.

But neither do we have the reign of God for the redemption of society when Christians are unconcerned about the plight of their fellow men, or when such giant evils as war, race discrimination, alcoholism, economic injustice, hunger and homelessness, and the shattering of family life go unchallenged.

In addressing past injustice and its legacy, how do we create a different foundation for the future?

In short, the awareness of privilege and injustice overcame the base impulses of individuality and consumerism so that life trajectories were changed, comfort exchanged for sacrifice and a life of plenty traded for the bread of doing God's will.

From whom, one might ask, does the fellow who lost his beach home in Malibu to February's mudslides seek redress for «environmental injustice»?

This kind of thought, which at its worst was found in the parody popularized decades ago that «there'll be pie in the sky, when you die» as a compensation for injustice today, is hardly attractive to men and women who insist that justice is to be done now.

This is all the Schiavos wanted to do for Terri but were prohibited in an egregious injustice; take care of their daughter for as long as she or they lived.

When do we get to decide for justice and against injustice?

Curtis Berger shocked his Columbia University Law School associates at a convocation for the opening of the school year by saying, «I do not assert that legal education makes our graduates evil, but I do believe that [it makes them] less feeling, less caring, less sensitive to the needs of others,... even less alarmed about the injustices of our society than they were when they entered law school.»

Because all people do not respond to the preaching of the gospel and its concomitant call to discipleship, however, the gospel itself demands that Christians both encourage society to» «make serious and positive use of the social theories» of Jesus Christ and the Scriptures,» and help society to heal social injustices by loving our neighbors as ourselves.21 Toward this end, the church must first of all proclaim to the world the Bible's perfect rule not only for faith but also for practice.

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Eric Reid not only believes that kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice is the right thing for some players to do — but it's...

Those who now insist on their narrow Trinitarian and salvation - only - by - grace definition of Christianity for candidates for public office are doing our Republic an injustice.

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Eric Reid not only believes that kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice is the right thing for some players to do — but it's also the Christian thing to do.

While Wright argues that Jesus speaking to Roman authorities in John 18 and 19 presents a mandate for political engagement, Boyd points out that Jesus does not bring up the injustices of the Roman Empire, nor other governmental issues, in his dialogue with Pilate.

It does this first by having the patience amid the injustice and violence of this world to care for the widow, the poor, and the orphan... it is our conviction that unless we take the time for such care neither we nor the world can know what justice looks like.

Every conscientious politician discovers what T. V. Smith has called the deepest theoretical discrepancy in life, that between private conscience and public convenience.2 We must support injustice and profit from special privilege in order to possess power which may make it possible for us to do some relative good.

For example, writing as he did in the midst of the depression (1935), Calhoun discusses the problem of revolutionary violence as a means to correction of economic injustices.

-- The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel (Zondervan: 1998)-- Good News About Injustice by Gary Haugen (intervarsity: 1999)-- I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist by Norman Geisler & Frank Turek (Crossway: 2004)-- Living with Questions by Dale Fincher (Zondervan: 2007)-- Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (Harper: 2001)-- The Reason for God by Timothy Keller (Dutton Adult: 2008)-- Strong's (the complete library)-- Understanding Intelligent design by William Dembski & Sean McDowell (Harvest House: 2008)-- BeThinking.org — ConversantLife.com — Discovery.org/csc — Probe.org — Reasons.org

Does the notion of revelation help us in our quest for some answer to the problem of suffering and injustice in society?

Laws really mean nothing, revealing injustice to the masses does work over time, history proves that, its just much to slow for folks like you and me.

We are doing an injustice in the name of Jesus and will have to face the consequences for our prejudiced and unloving stance on this issue, like we are doing on many other issues.

If they do not, will they be marginalized and demonized even as they serve the poor, care for the orphan, or speak against injustice?

On behalf of the church at large, I ask forgiveness of my gay brethren for the great injustice the church has done you... for the love that has been withheld... for the condemnation heaped upon you.

On behalf of the church at large, I ask forgiveness of my gay brethren for the great injustice the church has done you... ---- On behalf of the church at large ---- Hehehe!

The Messiah is the one in whom the Jews centered their hopes for the coming of a new age of righteousness, in which particularly the injustices done to the people of Israel would be punished and loyalty to the one true God appropriately rewarded.

Why do we have so fierce a longing for justice and such burning outrage at all the myriad swamps of injustice that life drags us through?

When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our souls.

Do not let your hatred for a people seduce you into dealing with injustice.

I was told Jesus claimed to be God in the flesh (John 1:14 n Phil 2:5 ff; et al.) I was told that in about 30AD Jesus let himself be executed for a crime he did not commit as a way of satisfying Justice for all our injustices — like one who pays a penalty owed by another.

While he was deeply disturbed about the injustice and poverty that prevailed, he did not seek a future that would have no roots in or consequences for present realities.

And now I know that the great injustice of those who simply didn't come to know there was anything to accept being tortured for eternity doesn't keep you up at night at all.

When Obama won for President, droves of people were out there all ethnics, creeds, and colors, but when the dog, and pony show was over, everyone reverted back to what they always do ignore what is truly going on around them, in difference, hate, injustice, greed etc..

For me had the same crossroads reading Romans 9, «Jacob I loved but Esau I hated... though they were not yet born and had done nothing good or bad...» The bible's answer to that is «Is there injustice on God's part?