In his speech, Mezour invoked an African proverb, «the sun does not ignore a village just because it is small,» stressing that the COP was responsible for
the hope of all of humanity through tangible action through «win - win partnerships» and stakeholder engagement, transparency and consistency, and creation of innovative sustainable development models that can transform the world's economies, including those of the Global South.
Not exact matches
My
hope is that more
of us will commit our energy to building the long term social infrastructure to bring
humanity together.
«If you strive to create the best and do the best, not just for some, then today, all
of humanity has good cause for
hope.»
its been kinda hard work sometimes here lately — in spite
of the tolerance and openness np guides us towards, and I
hope very much we can feel secure enough to show each other some respect and
humanity in 2009, whatever our views.
And their instinct is perfectly sound, for the food - crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in
hopes of adding five years on to the life
of his carcase; that is, a person out
of touch with common
humanity.»
If even a small portion
of that effort could be redirected towards actually helping people who are without
hope it would be a tremendous benefit to
humanity.
... I
hope that in another thousand years,
humanity looks back at us and cringes because we were still afraid
of the sky - gods.
To be an Atheist is (for me anyway) to put whatever
hope one has into the progress
of humanity, that we are animal organisms capable
of civilization, growth and learning.
A frail, desperate
hope that snorting and rolling your eyes at the notion
of something more important than
humanity conveys wisdom.
Only in this faithful
hope can and do they speak
of «God's problem» — the problem
of theodicy, not atheism, the problem
of God's self - justification in the execution
of his righteous will, not the problem
of humanity's justification
of God in the exercise
of mature human reason.
Vatican II, in his view, inaugurated a two - way dialogue in which Catholicism not only listened to the world's
hopes and anxieties but also proposed to the world a Christian humanism: the «passionate love
of God for all
humanity, made visible in... Jesus Christ, crucified and risen,» that same Christ who fully and uniquely reveals to
humanity its incomparable dignity and high calling.
I wish Bell luck, I
hope he finds faith in
humanity and in good deeds regardless
of his view on God.
It may have looked like a fool's day, but the Risen Wisdom
of the World, the
Hope of Humanity, the Saviour
of the Suffering, and the Messiah
of the Masses, He buys back the busted, and takes back the abandoned, and all the walking dead comeback to new life, because the old world and ways have died in the night, and it is now --
The love
of God, however, attributes immeasurable value to
humanity, giving purpose to and
hope for our existence.
Life is so short it is nice to believe there is more to it, which the Bible tells a whole plan for the Earth and
humanity which is full
of hope.
The Jewish basis for this
hope lies especially in the Noahide Laws, a set
of seven laws binding upon all
humanity that were, according to rabbinic tradition, given to Noah.
Instead, we have faith in our own abilities,
hope in the future we can create, and love
of humanity.
This creating out
of passion and love, the carrying, the seemingly - never - ending - waiting, the knitting - together -
of - wonder - in - secret - places, the pain, the labour, the blurred line between joy and «someone please make it stop,» the «I can't do it» even while you're in the doing
of it, the delivery
of new life in blood and
hope and
humanity?
«The American and Soviet peoples share a common
humanity, a common aversion to war, a common horror
of nuclear weapons, and a common
hope for their economic and social well - being» (p. 17), the bishops affirm.
Already beginning with Franz Kafka, it has been the Jew who has most poignantly unveiled the bad faith
of the modern Christian world's belief in God, and no doubt the Jew has most clearly and truly seen this bad faith, because he exists as an exile in the Christian world, an exile whose
humanity is negated by the Christian faith and
hope.
Just a reminder, someday
humanity will wipe away ignorance and intolerance like your as we did small pox, we might even invent an inoculation for you, but until then we will just continue to suffer your stupidity and
hope that the minority
of religious conservatives in this country never get to elect their insane candidates.
I was too impressed by the basic accomplishment
of landing on one's feet after completing a so - called «double - twisting, double back flip» — something 99.9 %
of humanity could never
hope to do — to be worried about deductions based on form.
All that we
hope to say about the interdependence
of people and the earth, economic justice and ecological responsibility, is ultimately based in this metaphor and its message that the struggle
of humanity and the earth are one.
The first question has to do with Marxist humanism or with Marxism as a humanism: how, at the very core
of an estranged
humanity, are we able to rely on the
hope calling us to a fully human future, when this project itself is nothing but the visualization
of alienated people?
It serves the ecumenism toward which Pannenberg's theology is directed and which he sees as integral to the
hope of humanity in general.
I
hope I would remember to turn sincerely and expectantly to God for guidance as to how to do more — intelligently — to meet the immediate human needs
of the multitude, but to take practical inspired steps for healing the fears, hates, misunderstanding, and cruelties that bring suffering to
humanity» («Some Questions and Answers about Christian Science,» Christian Science Sentinel, September 2, 1985, pp. 1508 - 09).
Modern
humanity has become expert in its knowledge
of the scientific, exterior forces in the world — electricity, gravity or nuclear force — but we know little about the existential forces
of the inner world — love, hate,
hope, fear, doubt and faith.
He lives today, unseen though ever present, and in the acceptance
of Him as Saviour and as Lord lies
humanity's
hope for the present and for the future.
Religion however has tried to supersede our
humanity and tell us it's okay to kill those other humans because they aren't like you, they don't worship the same God as you, they don't have the same
hope for an afterlife, they aren't special and «chosen» by God like you... that is the true face
of evil on the planet, the one that tries to make you forget your
humanity with bribes and extortion.
Prayer is the vehicle by which sages
of any religion put to words their deepest
hopes and visions for all
of humanity.
She understood
humanity enough that, while she advocated her idiotic and wrongheaded sense
of aesthetics to groups
of intellectuals, and while she did seek approval from those same groups and
hoped to change a few minds, she did not care (nor did she ever expect) the rest
of us lowlifes to ever pick up the banner
of Objectivism and run with it.
If ever a man is tempted, in a low mood, to give up
hope about
humanity, let him think upon the courage which human life on every side
of him exhibits — the quiet, constant, sustained heroic courage in obscure and forgotten places where nobody sees!
Individualism that is informed by integrity and compassion offers one
of the great
hopes of humanity, giving us the prophets and critics and dreamers which we so badly need, and giving us also the
hope that some brave souls will lead us where we ought to go.
The pontiff has a special charisma and mission that does not only touch Catholics and Christians: he speaks to the
hopes and suffering
of all
humanity.
These commands issuing from a divinity beyond the reach
of reason connect us with the universality
of humanity and with common human
hopes for the redemption
of what is dearest to us as simple human beings.
A quiet death, I'd guess, has been a
hope of humanity for tens
of thousands
of years, a quiet end and peace at the last.
There is an «already»: Christ has already come; God is on
humanity's side; death has been vanquished once, and therefore once for all; evil has been vanquished once, and therefore once for all, and we can live in the certainty
of love and
hope.
Nothing
of humanity's evil and misfortune has changed, except in
hope and in truth.
«I
hope there's words that will just echo and resonate, and say, «yes, there is empathy, there is
humanity, there is
hope for the world», because I think this service is the platform that can really start to change
humanity depending on the right words and - it's a church, people
of god - how they convey the message to mankind.
We
hope that there remains no quarrel with the orthodoxy
of our central affirmations that «The fathers maintained the sacredness
of matter and its share in God's saving plans ``; that the flesh is central to the plan
of salvation; that the Incarnation takes place in order to bring about eternal communion between the Godhead and
humanity, and thereby the whole
of the physical creation which is summed up in Christ.
Their need, their
hope, their search for healing at the depth
of their
humanity is something with which we must, as we say in English, «keep faith.»
Third, in spite
of the dark nature
of the topics he covered — war, depression, racism, and genocide — Gilbert's works always retain a spirit
of hope, a faith in
humanity's ability to survive, and even overcome, the depths
of radical evil.
People are waking up to the corruption
of religion, and let's all
hope that our young people will not let this travesty
of humanity continue for very many more generations.
I consider myself a Christianity with a primary focus
of hoping to help in the survival
of humanity, too.
I consider myself a Secular Humanist with a primary focus
of hoping to help in the survival
of humanity.
The
hope for a redeemed
humanity, living in dignity, freedom, and brotherhood under God is an integral part
of the Christian faith about the meaning
of the human adventure.
Only by reaching to the heart
of the Noosphere (we see it more clearly today) can we
hope, and indeed be sure,
of finding, all
of us together and each
of us separately, the fullness
of our
humanity.
• «The future
of humanity lies in the hands
of those who are strong enough to provide coming generations with reasons for living and
hoping» (31).
For them the prophetic
hope of a renewed
humanity in a transformed earth had become the expectation
of an altogether new and unimaginable order
of existence, either in some remote heaven or on an earth so radically changed as to be a new and different earth.
For example, Thomas referred to the Faith and Order discussions on «Giving Account
of our
hope that is within us» where it is clearly affirmed that «the future
of perfected
humanity lies in the fullness
of the Godhead» beyond this side
of history where sin and death prevail.