Pope John Paul II forcefully articulated this logic in his great but oft overlooked encyclical of 1980, Dives in Misericordia, where he affirms the importance of justice» meaning rights and desert» but goes on to argue that justice alone, detached from love and untempered by mercy, is prone to collapse
into spite, hatred, and even cruelty.
You're right, Karen — feeding
into spite isn't the way to go.
Not exact matches
Leaders and voters are fed up with Greece, but they can't drive it
into Vladimir Putin's embrace out of
spite
If you choose to throw your money
into Bitcoin in
spite of this advice, just know you're doing so at your peril.
These negotiations are reportedly making good progress in
spite of fears that Japan's recent entry
into the talks could cause delays.
In
spite of the Chinese stock market's perceived relative unimportance, the Chinese authorities have pulled out all the stops to ensure that equity volatility does not spill over
into the wider economy.
Even more disconcerting is the fact that the relative strength of the XHB has remained below its falling 200 - day moving average in
spite of the broader equity market recovery and the fact that the Fed has backed off its hawkish interest rate stance — two things that would normally translate
into higher confidence for homebuilders.
In
spite of the fact that Bitcoin Asia gaming may just take up a little rate of the general internet gaming industry, regardless it figures out how to get a lasting effect, so much that more fiat - based betting sites are gradually incorporating bitcoin
into their framework.
My thesis going
into May is that the SPOOS are struggling in
spite of enhanced earnings as short - term interest rates in the U.S. are perceived to be a drag on future earnings and possibly economic growth.
Yet, in
spite of this, most of those users are either those who acquired the cryptocurrency in the early days of the network through individual mining or some other venture, or they are wealthy individuals who decided to get
into the digital currency domain as a way of diversifying their investment portfolio.
In
spite of the Emperor's nutty Luddism, as well as the fact that it was excessively dependent on foreign capital, Vienna was moving forward
into modern times at an extraordinary rate: «The great public works which were inaugurated by the building of the Ringstrasse went alongside an equally spectacular renewal of the infrastructure.
For in
spite of its prima facie attraction, and even if there is such a «primal» experience, that experience would not be accessible in any philosophically helpful way, could not be exploited without reliance upon the very analyses and arguments whose lack of immediacy and authority the appeal is seeking to escape, could not (even for oneself) sustain translation
into the discursive and dialectical combat zone of philosophy, and could not by itself alone provide a nonarbitrary basis for determining what in it is essential to experience merely as such.
I like the Christian ideals (though not always how they have been put
into practice, but we're all flawed and people will be people in
spite of their best efforts and ideals).
After I left prison, I was led
into a church that taught «free grace» and a group of Godly men that welcomed me
into their circle in
spite of my own failings.
It is in the sincere practice of their own faith that people come
into relationship with God, not in
spite of it.
In
spite of the division
into many Churches, the Church was truly at work in America.
We are caught in a terrible machine which can thrust us
into situations of violence in
spite of ourselves.
While I think we can all agree that Christians should withhold condemnation regarding the abuse allegations until the facts come out in the case and the issue has been thoroughly investigated and subjected to due process, what baffles me is Christian leaders» continued support of Sovereign Grace Ministries in
spite of the ministry's repeated efforts to evade external investigation
into this matter.
His therapeutic theory is essentially individualistic in
spite of his brilliant insights
into the societal roots of pathology.
In this chapter I shall urge them not to give up their persistence in clinging to the distinctiveness of their field of inquiry in
spite of the apparent inroads made
into it by the physical sciences.
I didn't find much mythology about the Musk - Goats as I googled today except humans have loved hunting them and eating them
into oblivion forever in
spite of their «formidable strength».
In
spite of failing to fulfil its primary intention, it provides certain fundamental insights
into the nature of his understandings of reality and
into what may well be the conditions of metaphysical thought.
But in
spite of this concern, when I take
into account all the information available, I embrace my faith because I ultimately believe it to be both true and the most intellectually satisfying.
The underlying theological dynamic here is the sovereign act of creation which brings human beings
into being as God's children in
spite of their anxiety, disobedience, and guilt.
Man is a creature who has some hope already built
into him, so that he often keeps on hoping in
spite of himself, and for reasons he knows not why.
The in -
spite - of character of the Christian faith is apt, I am afraid, to increase as well as decrease tension among people, to cause a new dissension as well as a great unity, thus falling
into a false endlessness.
There is an apophatic, silent, or distancing impulse in these contemporary movements that, in
spite of the nihilistic extremes to which they often tend, can be assimilated
into the themes of hope and promise.
In
spite of the hieratic and ceremoniously rigid style of the work, is there not a great deal of life here — life in the people whose words we hear, and whose acts we witness, and life above all in the Buddha Sakyamuni and in the great disciples who have been transformed
into archangels?
In
spite of Peirce's insight
into the need for agape in evolution, his metaphysical inclinations placed boundaries on the application of his insight.
Christians are just hostile towards it because, for whatever reason, they've been brainwashed
into believing their religion is the right one in
spite of «knowing» all the rest are hooie, and don't like their fable being lumped
into the same catagory.
«Societies rise and fall on trust; that is the currency of development and when we enter
into trust - deficient communities and engage through tactics that further erode trust all in the name of bringing Jesus, democracy, gospel, development, aid, help, whatever, we cut off our nose to
spite our face.
But now if the individual, yes, if you, my listener, and I must admit to ourselves that we were far from living in this way, far from that purity of heart which truthfully wills but one thing; must admit to ourselves that the questions demanded an answer, and yet in another sense, in order to avoid any deception, did not require an answer, in that they were, if anything, charges against ourselves which in
spite of the form of the question changed themselves
into an accusation: then should the individual, and you, my listener, and I join together in saying, «Indeed our life is like that of most others»?
The church is founded upon faith in God; in
spite of the historical corruptions
into which it has fallen it bears the «oracles of God.»
In
spite of falling «
into every pit and being trapped in all the snares.»
In
spite of the «cloud of witnesses» mentioned in the Book of Hebrews, and the Jesus» reminder that «our God is the God of the living, not the dead, few Protestant Christians have any sense of a connection with our brothers and sisters in Christ who have passed
into the fullness of Eternity.
For either the event holds on to the determination it originally prehended, in
spite of the latter's transition
into an [objective] state, and so pre-produces in itself only the objectified data; or else it develops a novel determination in contrast to its original one.
But in
spite of all apparent failures, dogmatic definitions arose, and precisely in their long - lasting continuance contrasted with the always short - lived heresies which flourish and gain adherents for a while but then fade
into obscurity.
The final adverb is puzzling, but it probably suggests that there is no easy entrance
into the kingdom in
spite of its availability.
Such models are never accepted passively, or even just as they are, but one ought to speak more of the seepage of such models
into the consciousness and expression of the people, very often in
spite of active or resigned resistance.
In
spite of the unquestionable fact that saints of the once - born type exist, that there may be a gradual growth in holiness without a cataclysm; in
spite of the obvious leakage (as one may say) of much mere natural goodness
into the scheme of salvation; revivalism has always assumed that only its own type of religious experience can be perfect; you must first be nailed on the cross of natural despair and agony, and then in the twinkling of an eye be miraculously released.
Since beginning and end are both temporally separated and qualitatively different, and since it is possible to analyze what must take place for the qualitative difference to come
into being, it is appropriate to speak of the act of decision as a process in
spite of its indivisible unity.
In
spite of his admirable rejection of an exclusivistic christology, it was the «older Israel»
into which Jesus was born and of which he was a part, and it is the «Church of the new dispensation» which is brought
into being by faith in him (CR 95).
In
spite of my humiliation and anger, however, I could not avoid tucking their basic questions
into the back of my mind.
He's a warm, generous man, and he was the instrument of divine kindness that allowed me to enter
into the Church» in
spite of my spiritual impoverishment.
Faith = the ability to believe in something in
spite of the fact that science can PROVE what you believe in is impossible (it is absolutely impossible for a human being to die, be dead for 3 days and rise from the dead, still haven't been able to get someone to walk on water, and if I could turn water
into wine, I'd work from home).
In
spite of frantic appeals by the Popes, the crusading spirit had so far become an anachronism that in Western Europe, divided
into rival nation - states, no effective united effort was made to stem the Turkish tide.
In his nine months in the Wartburg, in
spite of ill health and Anfectungen, Luther wrote nearly a dozen books and translated the New Testament from Greek
into German.
The experimentation with social, political and economic structures necessitated by the move
into historical existence has produced prolonged sufferings in
spite of the best intentions.
At the beginning of the movie, as in the book, Liz realizes that in
spite of the fact that she invested everything
into her marriage and that she built it
into what it had become, she was very unhappy.
What is theologically interesting is that, in
spite of a number of nods to other issues, the governing motif of these works is the structural threat to the biosphere, and thus about how to re-integrate humanity
into the «natural» order.