Sentences with phrase «human tragedies in»

Maybe that grand goal of the good society is brought into being not by vigilante types, nor yet by romantic revolutionaries, nor by any visionary ideologies and scenarios of the right or left, but by the ambiguous resolution of human tragedies in thousands of little courtrooms across the land.

Labour has cancelled the launch of its general election campaign as the human tragedy in the Indian Ocean takes precedence over domestic affairs.

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(The connective tissue in the latter, as readers discover, is the role human empathy plays in the public response to the tragedy.)

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) say oil companies working in the delta, of which Shell is the largest, have overseen a «human rights tragedy&raHuman Rights Watch (HRW) say oil companies working in the delta, of which Shell is the largest, have overseen a «human rights tragedy&rahuman rights tragedy».

The darker meditations about the interaction of human nature and democracy we find in Tocqueville and The Federalist, rooted in some ways in the perennial concerns about republican government voiced so powerfully in book VIII of Plato's Republic or in Shakespeare's tragedy of Coriolanus, these are what we need to attend to.

All human beings face contradictions and sharp differences within their souls, but few have the conflicts in their souls put on display as a national tragedy no less than a personal contradiction.

History is indeed a moral order, in which judgements of the living God take effect; but this view can not be fully verified upon the plane of history as we know it, since there is an irreducible element of tragedy in human affairs.

This coming - of - age book set in Alabama is a must - read for every human, I think — we witness justice, inequality, strength, character, community, and tragedy through the eyes of a young girl.

The great tragedy in human life is that after experiencing the great love and mercies of God we become indifferent to God.

nothing makes the atheist more ticked off more than when you bring up GOD... God gets all the blame for all the tragedy in the world... If there wasnt a god in the first place, humans would not know tragedy or injustice when we see it... it would be a non-issue to us... survival of the fittest would not permit the emotions of love, compassion, empathy... Darwininian theory could not allow any of those and many other of the best of people's capacity for caring to surface... You cant explain it away by synapse or neurons... without a Supreme Being, there would be no sense of justice or injustice, we would not call it anything because there is no Ultimate Moral Standard to compare it.

The difference is that he never forgot that politics is one way in which very imperfect human beings can enact projects based on moral reasoning; that politics is a theater of both comedy and tragedy, relentless in the teaching of humility.

The tragedy is that, even with the best of intentions, our egoistic narcissism (falling excessively in love with ourselves rather than a Divine [or even a human] Other blinds us to justice which is the minimum requirement for love.

I don't know what foolish things people and nations will permit themselves to do in the near future, what compacts we will make with hell through the use of nuclear and biological weapons, what ecological disasters we will actively perpetrate or merely permit to happen or what unprecedented human tragedy we will willingly or witlessly sponsor.

You stepped in to protect the interests of the most innocent and vulnerable person in this human tragedy, the dying father whose suffering is being unnecessarily increased by the theft of his pain meds.

My mind immediately jumped to the disgusting proselytizing that so often occurs right after a natural disaster or human tragedy — whether in a family, or on a larger scale.

If there is a particular correspondence in Abraham to the first Israel (Exodus and Settlement) and in Jacob to the second (the period of the Kingdoms), something of the same correspondence is to be seen in Joseph to the third Israel, to her profound hope that out of willful intention of evil, out of the consequent judgment of destruction and tragedy, God would yet through human means raise up the tribes of Jacob and bring his light of redemption to all the earth.

All human minds are weak especially in the face of overwhelming tragedy.

Wiesel, for whom memory seems to be the closest thing to the image of God in human beings, and who views memory as the central transmitter of ethical and moral insights, depicts the tragedy of Elhanan's increasing disability with enormous understanding and sympathy.

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He reminded us of the tragedy of the human situation, but he also reminded us that faith takes us (as he expressed it in the title of one of his finest books) Beyond Ttragedy of the human situation, but he also reminded us that faith takes us (as he expressed it in the title of one of his finest books) Beyond TragedyTragedy.

The tragedy of human behavior is that so long as we seek to build ourselves up, to overcome our deficiencies, we in fact only spin webs around ourselves, isolate ourselves more deeply than ever from one another, and reveal our desperate need for the love of God.

In a recent book I read (Engaging the Powers), the author suggested that such a response is natural in light of the ever - increasing tide of natural catastrophes and human tragedies that are paraded before our eyes on Television and the Newspapers on a daily basiIn a recent book I read (Engaging the Powers), the author suggested that such a response is natural in light of the ever - increasing tide of natural catastrophes and human tragedies that are paraded before our eyes on Television and the Newspapers on a daily basiin light of the ever - increasing tide of natural catastrophes and human tragedies that are paraded before our eyes on Television and the Newspapers on a daily basis.

The major task in the ministry, to which both Whitehead's and Kaplan's process theologies are germane, is consoling those who have suffered tragedies, especially bereavement, and helping those who have suffered human injustice and oppression.

If the resurrection is the true dénouement of the whole story and not a «happy ending» tacked on to a tragedy, then there is an element in the story itself which brings us to the frontiers of normal human experience, where experience runs out into mystery.

It is his disclosure of God's love, standing by man through all tragedy and despair, to which we give our witness in the faith that death can not hold or destroy what Jesus was and what he brought into human existence.

The Christian is still keenly aware of the tragedy of human life, and the limitations in which his mortality involves him, but death no longer holds any fears for him.

And we remain on the earth, unchanged: human folly and tragedy remain what they have always been — but with the gnawing of love, the leaven concealed in the dough (but it has not yet risen), the seed hidden in the ground (but it has not sprung up), and the salt put in the soup (but it has not dissolved).

In other words, the real victim in the tragedy is not the human saint and martyr Prometheus, but rather the gods whose dominance has been fatally undermined by the disbelief of human beingIn other words, the real victim in the tragedy is not the human saint and martyr Prometheus, but rather the gods whose dominance has been fatally undermined by the disbelief of human beingin the tragedy is not the human saint and martyr Prometheus, but rather the gods whose dominance has been fatally undermined by the disbelief of human beings.

The tragedy of human history is exemplified in the ever recurrent ambiguity of the answer: yes and no.

Barring natural tragedy, as in miscarriage, or lethal intervention, as in abortion, this being will become what everyone recognizes as a human baby.

We still have to ask ourselves what the story says about how God deals with humans, and what is going on behind the scenes in some (but not all) of the tragedies and difficulties of human life.

His life is more than a mythical event; it is a human life which ended in the tragedy of crucifixion.

No one can measure the known and unknown tragedies that have grown out of its defilement in our stock, nor the repercussions upon the human community at large from all the trauma so caused.

Even though human conflicts and the September 11 tragedy can be explained in political and social terms, explicitly or implicitly religious components shape and motivate them depending on the persons who give leadership to them.

It is the demand inscribed into infinitely aspiring human nature by the Creator; its perversion in idolatry, hostility and self - centeredness is the heart of man's tragedy; its reconstruction, redirection and empowerment is redemption from evil.

It is only in light of the God - given human dignity of all that we can understand the great sadness and tragedy of the gay lifestyle and the homosexualist agenda, including same - sex marriage.

For his view of tragedy as the result of the inevitable gap between the ideal and the actual in human conduct could also be applied indiscriminately to other situations.

He discovers tragedy not so much in human finitude as in pride.

H. Richard finds tragedy in the limits of human power: Reinhold sees it in the limits of human righteousness.

The human mind can not comprehend what God has in store for us, nor is he expected to explain the whys of the tragedies that happen to us here.

Emerson's perfectionism places too much faith in human capacities and fails to understand human limitations, according to Reinhold Niebuhr, who said that «the ultimate fulfillment of human life transcends the possibilities of history» (Beyond Tragedy).

As Jesus» will was always centred on the Father and his mind was not clouded by the attractions of sin, he was able to grasp the true tragedy of our human condition in a way that only great saints have understood.

Grace means the way in which God deals with our human condition, his active purpose for the creation, his power to redeem and save history from its bloody tragedy, his offer of eternal life.

As a result, He gets himself into compromising situations, takes the blame for horrible human events, and gets His hands dirty in the tragedies of life.

One could travel in this bicentennial year to a thousand American communities, and in each of them see instances of human tragedy directly based upon failures of justice and the breakdown of moral ideas — this in the face of operative legal systems.

But we may still conclude that in the case of God's self - embodiment in the world there is a risk of tragedy because of the precariousness of the web of human relationships that would constitute at least one of the subsidiary levels of the divine indwelling.

Its basic mode is entertainment, even in presenting such unlikely entertainment as human suffering and tragedy.

Despite the tragedy of human sin, damaging the matter - spirit ecosystem, God's loving mercy enables that damaged relationship to be healed through Christ's unique redemption of us in His assumption of our flesh and its crucifixion and resurrection.

Humans rising up to comfort one another in the wake of a tragedy is a beautiful thing and I view it as slightly insulting to have someone label it with a ridiculous label like «god».

Camus planned and completed a second cycle of works: the novel The Plague, in which the heroic Doctor Rieux strives, despite ultimate futility, against human suffering and death; the play The Misunderstanding, a kind of Greek tragedy in which a young man returns home in disguise, having made his fortune, only to be murdered and robbed by his mother and sister; and the highly influential cultural analysis The Rebel.