Sentences with phrase «love justice and mercy»

As Believers, we should love justice and mercy and we should have faith, and we should also pay our tithes!

To love justice and mercy in Micah chapter 6 sums up the old testament.

Not exact matches

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.

Hence, it was his practice to address matters of the heart - justice, mercy, love, man's need for his atoning work - and the eternal consequences that accompany our attitudes toward each.

In a letter announcing his retirement from the army at the close of the War, he wrote: «I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.»

Luther's mistrust of the message of James» i.e., that faith without validating works is dead (James 2)» has been inherited by and continues to hamstring Luther's spiritual offspring, who wrongly juxtapose grace and law, mercy and justice, love and holiness, indeed, the ethical standards of the Old and New Testaments.

Mercy names a depth of God's love that we can not approach by any other term, and therefore it is most fittingly applied (maxime attribuenda) to God, even beyond justice.

Jesus has an appeal to the young if He is understood to be demanding love, justice and mercy from all who try to follow Him.

Yes, mankind was made in God's «image» (Gen 1:26), able to mirror qualities that are his own, his personality, such as love, mercy, goodness, justice, and patience, whereas animals are governed by instinct.

I now try to follow the way of unconditional love, of radical hospitality, of loving - kindness, of compassion, of mercy, of speaking truth to power, the way of forgiveness, of reconciliation, and the pursuit of justice.

She insists on an essentially theological view of the world as the only appropriate starting point for effective radical politics — the only way to maintain a right understanding of what we are about and to avoid partisanship in our efforts to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God.

As mentioned above: I hear Jesus describing the way of unconditional love, of radical hospitality, of loving - kindness, of compassion, of mercy, of speaking truth to power, the way of forgiveness, of reconciliation, and the pursuit of justice.

I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.

It is solidarity that is liberative and life - affirming.20 Justice and loving mercy are the words used by the prophet.

He knows, to put it crudely, that God's love, mercy and justice must be infinitely greater than his own!

As you said Jeremy, «God's main concerns are justice, compassion, grace, mercy, generosity, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - control.»

What we can know and do know is that we are called to do justice and love mercy and walk humbly with God, and I don't see that as e.g. doing something wrong if those for whom we do justice and mercy turn out to spurn God's love for themselves.

God has His own version of justice, which seems not at all just and fair to humans, because God's justice is based on forgiveness, mercy, and love.

He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God (Mi 6:8): God hopes, indeed expects, mercy to emerge from liberated and sanctified human nature; God hopes, and indeed expects, that human beings should be just, merciful, and loving freely, not from compulsion.

I want it to be a place where we can tell our stories, confess our sins, discuss Scripture, ask questions, disagree with grace, grieve, heal, create, follow Jesus, and rally together to do justice and love mercy — not just with our words, but with our actions.

To believe in the gospel is to commit oneself to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly before God (Micah 6:8) in the power of the Spirit of the risen Christ.

There is no conflict between the justice of God and the mercy of God; both spring out of His infinite love for His children.

From the Old Testament to the New Testament, God continually calls us to justice, to love, peace and mercy and, above all, to accompany the marginalized, foreigners, widows and orphans.

In brief, love and justice must be united, even as judgment and mercy are united in the nature of God.

God can not act against his nature, and so I believe we can understand all teh stories in Romans 9 in a way that is consistent with love, mercy, fairness, and justice, without having to appeal to the «God is God and I am not» mentality.

These people meticulously followed religious rules, but because they loved money (Lk 16:14) they «neglected the more important matters of the law» which include «justice» and «mercy» (Mt. 23:23).

«In that day... I will betroth you to me forever: I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice and in hesed [R.S.V., steadfast love] and in compassion [from rhm: R.S.V., mercy]... in faithfulness and you shall know Yahweh.»

For all who believe in a God of love, justice, and mercy, it will mean constant prayer not only for the victims of the «culture of death,» but also for those who are joined in the great struggle on their behalf, and, indeed, for those misguided souls who, by political action or by personal involvement in the killing of the unborn or infirm, have made themselves their oppressors.

God's justice (his righteousness) and his love (his mercy) are not clearly distinguished in Scripture and never separable in fact.

Those irritating legalisms and time - consuming technicalities that had alternately irked and amused us while we were trying to do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God looked a bit different as our cab caught up with the others waiting for us.

You can not understand the awesome love, grace, mercy and holiness of God while rejecting His jealousy, wrath, anger, hatred and justice.

There are more of us that love God and love people, that leave the scent of grace wherever we walk, that forgive and serve without fanfare or book deals, that work for justice and mercy than I could have ever dreamed.

In a philosophical sense, faith, love, justice, mercy and truth can not exist in the absence of a second party.

This means seeing the humanity in one another, justice, mercy, faithfulness, loving one another well, peace - making, even purity (a much misunderstood word) and mutual honour.

If we add to faith and love, justice, mercy and truth, we begin to approach the essence of who and what God is.

If anything matters, everything matters and the work today, the love we give and receive and lavish on the seemingly small tasks and choices of our every day all tip the scales of justice and mercy in our world.

In His perfection, His faithfulness in unfailing, His love is boundless, His justice is impartial, His mercy is unfathomable, and His truth is untainted.

Micah 6:8 reminds us to «do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God.»

It is important for Christians to remember that every structure of justice, as embodied in political and economic institutions, (a) contains elements of injustice that stand in contradiction to the law of love; (b) contains higher possibilities of justice that must be realized in terms of institutions and structures; and (c) that it must be supplemented by the graces of individual and personal generosity and mercy.

With all that in view, a proper view of the Nature of God balances the Justice and Mercy, the Wrath, and the Love of God.

Please let each and everyone of us see you in this situation and in our own situations - your love, your grace, your mercy, your righteousness, your justice, your anger, and your peace.

But Elliott's quote from Micah («What does the Lord require of you, oh man, but to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with your God.»)

Because he is holy and just and righteous, man must do justice and love mercy.

Maybe that Kingdom, when it expands, doesn't overthrow Kings and rulers and governments through power and might, but redeems them through service, sacrifice, generosity, kindness, justice, forgiveness, mercy, and most of all, love.

Maybe what that matters in that moment is not what internship you'll accept or what person you'll date — maybe what matters is that you're doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly (Micah 6:8 paraphrase).

You, you are called to freedom, you are called to wholeness, you are called to love and mercy and justice, you are called to the better way, and it will not be taken from you.

Things like «doing justice, loving mercy, walking with humility» (paraphrase of Micah 6:8) or «loving God with all you've got and loving your neighbor as yourself «(paraphrase of Mark 12:30).

Citing examples of Christian mothers who were instrumental in the abolition of slavery and the passage of laws against child labor, she makes a strong case that virtues such as compassion and creativity that are «refined in the practice of motherhood can and should be used in other arenas to bring God's love, peace, mercy and justice to the world.»

Jesus is as good as we hope, and everything for which you are longing — love, joy, peace, justice, mercy, home, good work — is real because it rooted in God's heart for us.

Live counterculture when the culture does not affirm truth, love, faith, mercy, and justice.