Sentences with phrase «of cycles of violence»

When humans increasingly prioritize reason, they can recognize the «futility of cycles of violence» and selfishness, and can «reframe violence as a problem to be solved rather than a contest to be won,» he wrote.

Now, the first large, longitudinal study to track how victims of child abuse treat their own children has found little evidence of a cycle of violence, but suggests that sexual abuse and neglect may indeed be passed down the generations.

Echoes of Trey Styles can be seen in subsequent depictions of black male characters, most recently Jason Mitchell's ambitious Brandon on Showtime's «The Chi», who similarly struggles to break out of the cycle of violence after the agonizing murder of a loved one in Chicago's South Side.

The DOVE training equips home visitors with knowledge of the cycle of violence and how DOVE can successfully intervene in order to prevent child abuse, neglect and domestic violence.

Not exact matches

Pinker's extensively researched thesis is that global violence has decreased throughout human history, as wrong as that may feel given the 24 - hour news cycle that came into being not long after two world wars and matured during an age of regular terrorist attacks and mass shootings.

She knew she had to break the cycle of violence, and she knew Covenant House could help her do it — if only she would be allowed back.

The Shelter Blooms program raises funds to support domestic violence prevention and teen healthy relationship programming aimed at breaking the cycle of family violence in Canada.

The reasons behind cycles, as well as their timing, duration, speed, level of violence and amplitude, differ.

When we fail to do this, the cycles of violence just repeat themselves.

The cycle of violence on the part of individuals and groups goes on.

That sparked another cycle of violence, this time between Israelis and Palestinians.

Leviathan co-opts a disciple of Jesus into the merciless cycle of violence that kills battalions of soldiers in countless countries and leaves bodies hanging on a bridge in Iraq.

Instead he went to the cross to say this cycle of violence begets violence «stops here».

Unfortunately, the cycle of violence will continue in Egypt as neither side possesses the skills to deal with the other side.

The cycles of violence will continue ad infinitum.

A huge factor to this number is the cycle of violence and poverty facing...

Without forgiveness, murder leads to a cycle of violence that ends only in annihilation.

This murder of brothers began a cycle of contagious violence, murder, and death that spun out of control and enveloped the whole earth.

If the Muslim community itself fails to counter the violent argument of Islamists, there can be no hope of extinguishing those ideologies altogether, and the cycle of violence will continue.

Echoing these sentiments, the Peace and Justice Committee of the Mennonite Church USA proclaimed that, instead of bombing and other forms of violence, «God calls us to give bread to our enemies,» to do the «unexpected [in order] to stop the cycle of revenge.»

But the cycle of violence did not stop with violence covering the earth.

The never - ending cycle of violence will never stop through the use of more and greater violence, but through the self - sacrificial way modeled by Jesus.

I don't care for revenge myself; it too often starts cycles of violence, and the one seeking revenge is usually reduced to animal behavior.

If everyone learned to be a little more tolerant of others» viewpoints of them, there would be no need for this continuous cycle of protests and violence on both sides.

«But do we really think that violence, even a «justified» act of violence, has the capacity to heal the wounds inflicted by violence - or to end the cycle of violence?»

Even in the midst of anger and fear, of hatred and violence, when a billion years worth of instinct gears us up for either fight or flight, something calls for us to break the vicious cycle and instead to reach out to the other with caring and understanding.

As the forceful but measured actions of the United States since September 11 make clear, righteous anger, properly tempered by reason and law, can serve the cause of goodness and justice, and even put a stop to the «cycle of violence.»

And these outcomes pale in significance when the conflict is seen in the context of a larger question: Does this intervention break, or at least impede, the cycle of violence in which terrorism is only the latest turn?

While some focus on its potential to inspire a bloody «cycle of violence,» the most potent critique of anger is actually made by those less concerned with drawing attention to its negative political consequences.

The cycle of violence was hideous.

This study examined young boys who were maltreated in their youth (Avshalom Caspl et al., «Role of Genotype in the Cycle of Violence in Maltreated Children,» Science, August 2, 2002).

Our Lord's command, said King, is not «the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer,» but «an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization,» lest it destroy itself through a vicious cycle of endless violence and retribution.

Unless reason reasserts itself over passion, the potential for short - term chaos is great and the risk of long - term damage even greater: an ongoing cycle of resentment, bitterness, and revenge that will lead to more of the gratuitous violence that was seen on the streets of Washington this past January 21.

They had to find a way for the healing of the soul of their nation that took them beyond the cycle of violence and revenge.

He ultimately argues that there was an original act of violence which ultimately led to the possibility of the destruction of all people in the community, and so to avoid the ever - increasing cycles of violence, the community selected a ritual victim (a human or an animal) that would both carry the guilt of the community as well as the violent tendencies into death, thus satisfying the demands for revenge and the blood lust that comes with it.

But He knows that by taking the blame upon Himself, He will hopefully stop the cycle of violence from continuing, for while a person might retaliate in violence against a violent neighbor, how does one retaliate against a violent God?

Without the scapegoat mechanism, human culture would collapse upon itself in a never - ending cycle of progressive violence.

Just as Jesus became sin for us, God became sin for Israel, and in this way, hopefully, stops the cycle of violence from continuing.

Under Deborah's continued leadership, the people of Israel enjoyed forty years of peace before the cycle of violence began again.

So by causing violence to be ascribed to God, and by using violent religion to «cast out Satan,» Satan had developed the perfect cycle of violence from which there seemed to be no escape.

As America's troubles intensify, and anger and violence spread, it's essential for people of good will, especially those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, not to be drawn into the vicious cycle.

I understand yr position Steve, but at some time the cycle of «redemptive violence» needs to be challenged if we really want to move toward peace, and isn't that where the words of Jesus will be most effective.

Evil for evil will not end any cycles of violence anytime soon — what ends scenarios like that is actually the path of non-violence — including measures of forgiveness, mercy, understanding, diplomacy, and peace.

however, that his concern for the coherence of means and ends is necessary for achieving justice and breaking the cycle of violence.

So when Paul writes about «the forgiveness of sins,» he is referring to our release from the cycle of sacred violence.

Furthermore, the term «sin» in the Bible primarily refers to the sacred violence that has enslaved all of humanity in a never - ending cycle of rivalry, accusation, and scapegoating sacrifice.

We had enslaved ourselves to an endless cycle of sacred violence and the spilling of blood in God's name.

I was neither happy nor sad... but I paused to consider the cycle of violence in which we have been caught up.

Jesus redeemed us, bought us back, rescued us, released us from the never - ending cycle of sacred violence and sin by subjecting Himself to it.

But for the rest of us, and for the Bush Administration in particular, the answer must involve the proper use of force to stop the cycle of violence» force and violence being by no means the same thing» from becoming established.