Sentences with phrase «of enemies of peace»

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The teachings of Christ are crystal clear — that we must love our enemies, bless those who persecute us, pray for those who hate us — and not that they receive condemnation, but that their hearts may be turned to ways of true justice, love, and peace.

A new day of harmony will dawn, a time when born enemies, predator and prey, will live together in peace.

For this cause he had come, to bring peace to the enemies of God.

In this situation, surely no Jewish effort should be spared to narrow the split; yet whether he realizes it or not, precisely at just this moment Schindler's dreams widen that split still further, for they define all opponents of the Oslo agreement, seekers after peace though they may be, as the «enemies of peace.»

The very appetite proceeding from labor and peace of mind is gone: we eat just enough to keep us alive: our sleep is disturbed by the most frightful dreams; sometimes I start awake, as if the great hour of danger was come; at other times the howling of our dogs seems to announce the arrival of the enemy: we leap out of bed and run to arms; my poor wife with panting bosom and silent tears takes leave of me, as if we were to see each other no more; she snatches the youngest children from their beds, who, suddenly awakened, increase with their innocent questions the horror of the dreadful moment.

The peace between members of the congregation and one another, between them and strangers, between them and enemies, and between them and the whole creation is an emblem of the overarching peace between God and God's people, brought about in Christ.

When Jeremiah bade the exiles in the city of Babylon «pray unto Yahweh for it; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace,» (Jeremiah 29:7) we see the dawning of a better day, whose full light, however, did not come before Christ — «Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you»; (Luke 6:27 - 28) «Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.»

This gives you peace of mind, because if he didn't do this, then it was very likely that these enemies would come back next week, or next month, or next year and take you prisoner all over again.

So just as it would seem to be impossible for any earthly government to exist without a standing military, without violence toward enemies, and without governing rules for order and peace which include death to traitors and some form of capital punishment, so also God had to include such things in the earthly government which He set up in Israel.

Which is not to say that they are not patriotic, but they are patriots of another America — an America of their preference, an America at peace, an America without enemies.

Indeed, in waging war, the right intent is not to destroy the enemy but to bring the benefits of a just peace to the enemy.

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.»

Greed, lust, jealousy, envy, anger, pride, and egoism are the enemies of peace.

But Jesus had different goals and different methods, and so He was able to show a way of peace and non-violence toward His enemies, and call His disciples to do the same, for His Kingdom is not of this world.

This is to say, do we in the church model the desire for and pursuit of a just peace between enemies, or do we perpetuate a harsher politics where the winner takes all and the loser is simply silenced or encouraged to leave?

Moreover, if and when general war comes again, there will be need for a much larger minority than there was in 1914 to resist the inevitable war hysteria, the orthodox dehumanizing of the enemy, and the making of another nationalistic peace.

It does allow for compromise when necessary not in the name of peace but in the name of preparation for annihilation of the enemy.

When we outfit police like the military instead of as officers of the peace, they will treat the citizens as enemies and engage in war tactics.

How can we continue claiming that the love of God is revealed in the cross of Jesus and yet ignore the unbearable anomalies that exist between the demands that love makes upon human parents and the terrible way the Father, in order to make peace with his enemies, presides over the death of his very son?

[Ali, 1997:76] Even though peace and reconciliation are given priority, there are the possibilities of individuals reading several texts of the Qur» an to find support in engaging in acts of aggression and war like that of September 11, aiming at those who are identified as enemies of Islam or to those who have wronged the Islamic community.

I hope every Muslim learn that Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) didn't take revenge from the Taif's people or even his enemies in the conquest of Mecca and he kept calling for God's word.

[If a foreign government is your opponent, then you should first offer justice and peace, but if this is refused then defend yourself by force against force...] And in such a war it is a Christian act and an act of love confidently to kill, rob, and pillage the enemy, and to do everything that can injure him until one has conquered him according to the methods of war.13

Just like the promise, this fundamental hope was articulated in particular hopes — hopes for a more or less cataclysmic interruption of history, when God would establish his kingdom of justice and of peace upon earth, when Israel would be saved from enemies without and sinners within, to serve their God with singleness of heart.

Jesus is the «Prince of Peace» who calls us to love our enemies.

The radicals» war begins by dividing society into the politically chosen and the morally condemned, and ends with the total annihilation of the social enemy, which will usher in a millennium of social peace.

We can stand with our Christian brothers while encouraging them to practice loving their neighbor and their enemy, as well as supporting the vast majority of peace - loving Muslims in that land.

Instead, amid all the uncertainty of this life, amid all of the real and imagined dangers, our peace comes from the presence of our shepherd Jesus who «prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies.

Hostility creates hatred and contempt; the necessity of either killing or being killed obliterates humaneness; and even those who in times of peace have been cosmopolitans, with international interest and goodwill, become under the spell of war intense group - loyalists with no sense of moral obligation to the enemy.

Can there be peace with those who simply do not believe this and see the blood of their enemy as entirely worthless?

This peace is always threatened; it has to be created again and again over against the forces of destruction — sword and drought, wild animals, enemies, evil people.

It obviously did not take away from His message of following God's, peace and loving your enemies.

In Ephesians 2:11 - 22, Paul explains how groups of people who formerly were hostile enemies can now live together in peace and unity because of what Jesus Christ has done.

In effect, even in times of peace defeating Israel was very much on the minds of the Syrians, the traditional enemies of Israel.

Then through all of the vicissitudes of actual life in the ancient Near East, God made himself a people from those forebears — delivering them from slavery in Egypt, protecting them against their enemies, leading them through the terrors of the wilderness, entering into covenant with them, giving them his guiding presence in the covenant law, bringing them into a land flowing with milk and honey, giving them a Davidic king to be their protector of justice in peace and in war, and finally taking up his own dwelling in their temple on the Mount of Zion.

We reject these because we see them as enemies of love, peace and happiness.

Simply resolving on January 1st that, from that day forward, you are going to be a gentle parent and trying to change everything all at once is just setting yourself up for disappointment, frustration, and, more than likely, failure followed by that age - old enemy of peace... mommy guilt.

As for the logic and morality of making peace with the enemy, the Taliban «have matured considerably since the 1990s» (p. 117), and they do not share al - Qaeda's global agenda.

If anyone thinks it is anything else, they are flat out wrong and counted among the enemies of Peace and Mankind.

The general public is requested to disregard the publication in its entirety and regard the perpetrators as mischief makers and enemies of progress who are bent on pitching the military against the peace loving people of Kaduna State

The president stated that these enemies of peace had been desperately trying to bring the country to this sorry point «where a brother killing brother, a neighbour killing a neighbour and a community attacking and killing members of another community.»

As earlier stated, Nigerian Army will ensure enemies of peace in the state are brought to justice.

Leidner mentions Nelson Mandela, a leader who «offered South Africans an example of how to deal with the legacy of apartheid without resorting to further violence by making statements such as, «If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy.

Several days later, they jointly declared that by reappearing in France, Napoléon had proved himself «an enemy and disturber of the peace of the world,» and that together, «the sovereigns of Europe would be ready to give the King of France and the French nation the assistance necessary to restore peace.»

Rather than food as an emotional hinge or a habitual enemy, they make peace with their plate through gratitude of what it has to offer.

We've never seen a lot of their race or homeworld, so it's cool that the movie begins with Picard and Co. off on a diplomatic mission of peace between two previously violent enemies.

In the midst of such a divided year in our country, this film gave me hope that peace can be achieved between even the most stubborn of enemies.

Americans want peace and security, but that involves the taking of the lives of our enemy, sometimes by nefarious means.

Again, Peace education is at the heart of the project: Germany and the US were enemies in both World Wars.

After eight months of secret negotiations and 14 meetings the enemy of yesterday became a partner for peace.

In developing countries, where there is no specific enemy or conflict but a general lack of human rights, peace education seeks to elucidate sources of inequality to promote a more equitable, stable future.