Sentences with phrase «of injustice does»

Every day that we fail to rectify a past injustice constitutes a new injustice — even if the recipient of the injustice does not ask us for such rectification.

Moreover, none of the four Gospels tells the story of the Passion in such a way as to make it a simple tale of injustice done by the bad Sanhedrin to the good Christians.

The method of that warfare is reverse fighting,» the acceptance of injustice done to oneself, of pain and suffering and even death.

If we take the magnitude of injustice done to the Palestinians by the state of Israel there is a basis of comparison with Israel.

We understand that third criterion as allowing acts of protection or punishment that create injustices, as long as those injustices are proportionate to the injustice being alleviated and better than the alternatives in terms of the ratio of injustice done to injustice averted.

Not exact matches

And while the program does not solve all issues of environmental injustice in Los Angeles, it is a step in the right direction, says Ibrahim.

As she became aware of the injustices committed under Stalin's direction, she deplored them:» [My father] knew what he was doing.

A symbolic, non-violent violation of the law, done deliberately in protest against some form of perceived injustice.

That enemy doesn't have to be a person, it could be a system, a state of the world, an injustice, or an opinion.

Her poetry does not shrink back from pointing out injustice, but rage doesn't seem to be part of her palate.

Just don't use your understanding of Scripture as a tool to persecute and perpetuate social injustice against others

But huge amounts of injustice will be done.

Supporting free markets and limited government doesn't even begin to address the question of how citizens should behave in the market: Can a citizen be guilty of injustice in how he uses his wealth?

Its a sad day when our young black men do nt have the freedom to walk through certain neighborhoods without being harrased are mudered, no one has the right to just take a life just because of the color of your skin we as a people has to stand up to injustices such as this no one wants to hear the truth there is still a racial devide in America and our justice system create laws so that this kind of injustice can continue to happen rather u want to admit it are not our young black men are the prey.

Those who insist on their narrow definition of Christianity are doing our Republic an injustice.

The purely individual need for a fulfillment that is denied to us in this life, for an everlasting love that we await, is certainly an important motive for believing that man was made for eternity; but only in connection with the impossibility that the injustice of history should be the final word does the necessity for Christ's return and for new life become fully convincing.»

I dream of a movement that will agonize in prayer for weeks as Jesus did in the garden before beginning a direct action campaign against multinational corporations engaged in injustice abroad.

Either one suffers with God, which doesn't make suffering worthwhile: or one ignores suffering and injustice in the hope of a spiritual salvation.

However, a «deeper spirituality» that does admit this ought to be committed to justice and the abolishment of injustice on the earth.

Only after Nussbaum told her story to supportive listeners did she begin to understand the injustice and absurdity of that belief.

And she seldom gets angry at all about merely trivial offenses against her own person; the anger she does feel is much more often occasioned by real cases of significant injustice.

Because many women have absorbed the ethos of male dominance and female dependence, they do not believe in themselves enough to recognize injustice and leave a violent situation.

«If anyone asserts that Adam's sin affected him alone and not his descendants also, or at least if he declares that it is only the death of the body which is the punishment for sin, and not also that sin, which is the death of the soul, passed through one man to the whole human race, he does injustice to God and contradicts the Apostle, who says, «Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned» (Rom.

«I do think there are better alternate ways to fight injustice [than identity politics] and have pushed a model of conversation rather than confrontation as it concerns racial issues,» says Prof Yancey.

The establishment of the doctrine of divine omnipotence has set the stage for problematic attempts to shoehorn love back into the portrayal of divinity without doing injustices either to the notion of love or the understandings of power.

To refuse to take a gun is to stand by while injustice does its work and the poor die of hunger.

Whether the innocent suffer because of natural disasters (like earthquakes) or because the consequences of human folly and injustice (like wars and revolutions) do not fall only on the guilty, the burden of suffering is so heavy that praising God seems not only out of the question but also a violation of our moral sense.

For the child of rape who struggles to forgive, the bad news is that she suffered a terrible injustice; the good news is that Jesus did too and he wants to fellowship with her in her suffering.

Let the government protect all of its citizens from violence, persecution, and injustice as government has been ordained by God to do.

It can deal with the consequences of injustice but can not act against the bases of injustice; it is concerned for the misery of some individuals but does not see the multitude of the poor.

It seems that, in the midst of black Christian outcry in 2013, the majority of white Christians pressed the snooze button on racial justice, sleepwalking into their churches where an individualistic gospel that doesn't call them to say or do anything about racial injustice is preached, where white culture, rather than Christ, reigns supreme, and where the problems and perspectives of black people are ignored.

Did following Jesus mean becoming some shadow of myself, drained of empathy and compassion and revulsion to injustice?

But the humanity of our existence begins there where we say: We shall do no more injustice than we must to live.

There are families in my neighborhood who have relocated here with their kids, and one thing they tell me is that they want their kids to grow up knowing that not everything is okay in this world — that racism exists, that injustice exists, that just because someone smells doesn't mean we have to be afraid of them, and so on.

The word is full of people who believe in Jesus as their personal savior, who believe in the inerrancy of the bible, but who do nothing to help right social injustice, to help the poor, to feed the hungry, «the least of these.»

When we reduce this complex and important conversation to two «sides,» as though it were some kind of college football rivalry, we do such an injustice to the Bible, to Christian history, and to the millions upon millions of real people whose lives and whose futures we are discussing.

I also believe that our failure to do this has bred deep divisions within the church and has led to Christianity playing a paramount role in legitimating and exacerbating racial injustice from our nation's origin — colonizing Native Americans, enslaving Diasporic Africans — to our present - day crises of immigration and mass incarceration.

Opposing an unjust order, creating a state of disorder out of which (depending on how fluid the situation is) renewal may issue — this is acceptable, provided that the users of violence do not pretend that they are creating order; what they are creating is one more injustice.

Even if someone doesn't agree with the morality of using certain kinds of drugs, the injustice of the broken system is taking a devastating toll.

He ought to be the one who, even as he acts with the others proclaims the injustice and the unacceptability of what he and they are doing.

At the heart of the issue was the fact that exclusivism just didn't feel right to me, it didn't fit with my very core sense of right and wrong, of justice and injustice, of good and evil.

I'm so overwhelmed right now with the depth of pain, sorrow, deception and injustice this world gladly bathes itself in that I just don't know what to say.

Second, because it was a request not a command, Abraham was free to refuse, and his refusal did not require any argument about the justice or injustice of the matter.

But mere awareness of social injustice does not bring with it any felt urgency to act to change the conditions that produce injustice.

This suggests that the first 6,000 years of the world's existence have been given to mankind, to do as he pleases, and following this there will be 1,000 years when Jesus Christ will rule, and instead of the chaos and injustice of man's rule there will be justice and peace.

The cry of injustice rising from these two cities has brought God to investigate: He does not rely on hearsay, He will see for Himself.

It is hard to fathom the level of injustice — it's not illegal and there is nothing that can be done about it — but that doesn't make it right.

Martin Luther King and his followers engaged in open protest against clear instances of social injustice, and they did not share Booker T. Washington's aversion to civil rights agitation; quite the contrary.

Jefferson, unlike Lincoln, did not often resort to biblical language, but the injustice of slavery called it forth in him.

And we've seen, when issues of racial injustice flare up, vocal pro-lifers wonder why civil rights leaders don't seem as concerned about the injustice of abortion.