Sentences with phrase «human dignity becomes»

Wherever one draws the line, the fact is that when built on these foundations, human dignity becomes relative, not absolute.

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Can a regime, no matter how powerful, become the world's lodestar if it is morally corrupted by an utter disregard for the dignity and sanctity of human life?

With regard to others, it is our duty to cultivate within ourselves respect for the sacred and to show the face of the revealed God — the God who has compassion for the poor and the weak, for widows and orphans, for the foreigner; the God who is so human that he himself became man, a man who suffered, and who by his suffering with us gave dignity and hope to our pain.

[4] This wayward view has become the rallying assertion of the New Age movement with its implicit refusal of the body's dignity, and its unguided emphasis on the human spirit.

A new dignity has been conferred upon the whole human race for God himself has become a man.

What they can become, in the biblical phrase, is «one flesh», which occurs through the conjugal act carried out in all its human fullness, meaning and dignity.

Riding the publicity wave of Brittany Maynard, a young woman who suffered much and became the human face of the death - with - dignity movement, they have redefined compassion as respect for a patient's autonomous determination of the time, location, and method of death.

This «something» is precisely human nature: this nature is itself the measure of culture and the condition ensuring that man does not become the prisoner of any of his cultures, but asserts his personal dignity by living in accordance with the profound truth of his being.

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.

Not all born of human parents, not all who share in the bond of human generations over time, will seem equal in dignity — if and when those practices become accepted among us.

He argues that birth, breeding, and death are the features of life that most offend this sense of dignity, and as such are the central battlegrounds for those attempting to help us become more than human.

But there is nothing egalitarian about a moral vision that flows from understanding human dignity in terms of transcendence - seeking projects; and libertarians, under the brutalizing influence of Ayn Rand, seem to have become increasingly honest about the inegalitarian consequences of their agenda.

Once the internal contradictions of the secular project become apparent, people will begin to search for something that can provide a foundation for the self, morality, human dignity and meaning.

«Once the internal contradictions of the secular project become apparent,» Woodfinden writes, «people will begin to search for something that can provide a foundation for the self, morality, human dignity and meaning.

It becomes even worse when the servants, slaves, or subjects come to feel and to act as if this is the way things must be; then they have given up their human dignity and have denied the human potentiality that is properly theirs.

Instead, somewhat like Pope John Paul, Lincoln demanded that the principles of equality and liberty, the moral truths of human dignity which form the Constitution's foundations, become the «civil religion» of every citizen.

The state oversteps its boundaries and encroaches upon human dignity when it seeks to extend its authority into all areas of human life in the same way that the church ceases to be true to its own commission when it becomes an organ of the state.

In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate campaigns.

Because God in Jesus Christ became human and is linked with us in spite of our godlessness, human well - being and dignity will be a criterion of all things.

The man who spent his early life as a worker behind the Iron Curtain became the instrument of the Holy Spirit in teaching the world about the true dignity of man, of human labour, and about the unfathomable power of Divine Mercy to transform evil into good, despair into hope, and oppression into freedom.

When people lose their respect for others, and stop believing that all people have basic human dignity and value, the freedom of speech can become a curse.

And in perpetrating evil deeds, the men and women who work for Planned Parenthood become hardened against human dignity.

Its remarkable success in becoming universal can be claimed to show that no basis is needed, that in fact there is a universal common sense that supports its affirmation of human dignity and human rights.

In these circumstances the problem of freedom, of human rights and dignity became the primary problem for the individual and the nation.

For humanitarian health - care practitioners bearing witness to violations of human dignity has become synonymous with denunciations, human rights advocacy, or lobbying for political change.

We glimpse an aching portrait of a man who becomes disillusioned with his closest friend, but who carries too much grace and basic human dignity to reject him outright.

They want a society that has become stronger because all human beings are equally valued, can participate fully and are treated with fairness, dignity and respect.