Sentences with phrase «of justice and mercy»

«This seems an astonishing decision by the Home Office and I urge the home secretary to re-consider it in the name of both justice and mercy.»

John Packer, bishop of Ripon and Leeds, said the decision to deport Isa Muazu should be re-considered «in the name of both justice and mercy».

The present situation will not last forever for the God of justice and mercy will bring about change.

«Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.»

May it be a catalyst that moves us toward more acts of justice and mercy in our communities and in our culture.

A November 2014 LifeWay Research study found many pastors want a mix of justice and mercy when it comes to immigration.

Also, the procedural value of scientific truthfulness and disinterested advocacy must be enhanced by the normative verifies of justice and mercy.

The view of justice and mercy I sketched above, which takes seriously the nature and demands of perfect justice and divine mercy, incorporates some truths from both these positions.

... strange reconciliation of justice and mercy, each somehow an ultimate principle of value, but... the single aim at one primary good, which is that the creatures should enjoy rich harmonies of living, and pour this richness into the one ultimate receptacle of all achievement, the life of God.

Like the Jewish prophets, Jesus preached a reign of God that entails a strong communal sense of justice and mercy.

Richard John Neuhaus thinks that zero tolerance is a violation of both justice and mercy.

He believed that Paul's interpretation of grace as justification and sanctification were «closely related to Jesus» insistence that the righteous are not righteous before the divine judgment; and to his conception of the suffering Messiah as a revelation of the justice and mercy of God.

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.

The laws that embodied God's will, whether primitive taboos or the demand of justice and mercy, regulated overt acts.

Teddy Roosevelt observed that «from Micah to James» the religion of the republic «has been defined as service to one's fellowmen rendered by following the great rule of justice and mercy, of wisdom and righteousness.»

The point of justice and mercy anyway is not «they deserve it» but «this is the way God's world should be», and we are called to do those things that truly anticipate the way God's world WILL be.

Not exact matches

You have neglected the more important matters of the law: justice, mercy and faithfulness» (Matthew 23:23).

Modernity rejected that balance in favor of the gradual increase of autonomy and tolerance, believing that we could have mercy without justice.

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.

In Matt 23:23, Jesus stated that the more important matters of the Law (of Moses) were «mercy, faithfulness, and [social] justice».

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.

The antecedent for «them» in the penultimate line is the «sinnes» of the preceding one; in the closing couplet, the speaker is saying that although some people want to remind him of his debt in the face of God's justice, he is asking for God's mercy, and the forgetting, the forgiveness, of his sins.

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.»

Perhaps with enough people hammering the issues of abortion and gay marriage, Harris is right to direct her attention and effort to other issues of mercy and justice, but the flavor of the book seems to downplay the importance of traditional marriage, infant life, and the church's role in mercy ministry.

Aquinas does make a number of statements that sound like the view Cardinal Kasper wants to defend: He says in I. 21.4 that «the work of divine justice always presupposes the work of mercy and is founded upon it,» and that in acting mercifully God is «doing something more than justice,» for mercy «is the fullness of justice.»

God's «perfect justice and mercy» means that Hitler COULD be in heaven right now while the nicest person who NEVER heard of God is in Hell.

In the other passage, St. Thomas does address divine mercy and justice, but he is talking about God's work towards creation, so those passages aren't directly relevant to the question of the divine essence considered in itself.

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.

In question 21 of the Summa, Thomas writes that «the work of divine justice always presupposes the work of mercy and is founded upon it,» and that in acting mercifully God is «doing something more than justice,» for mercy «is the fullness of justice.

With a straightforward logic, he argues that insofar as mercy implies relation to imperfect creatures, it can not possibly be one of God's essential attributes, and that therefore «divine justice must be more fundamental than divine mercy.»

There in articles 3 and 4 he can find what Thomas thinks about mercy as the greatest attribute of God, its precedence over and against justice, and that mercy presupposes justice and is its plenitude — affirmations Moloney thinks must be criticized.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

The position on abortion and euthanasia inexorably follows; justice requires the protection of both the unborn and those who are likely to become the objects of mercy killing.

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.

For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith.

Denouncing them as blind guides, fools, hypocrites and a brood of vipers, he uttered harsh public words condemning them for their many errors, including their preoccupation with tithing on small matters and their neglect of more important things such as justice and mercy (Matt.

To our Western understanding it has always been an obstacle how mercy 6 and justice are so often quoted as poetic parallels, but if we had taken seriously the insight of the exodus this would be no paradox.

True religion, according to the Jeremiah tradition, is quite simply to know Yahweh: «Therefore, let him who boasts boast of this, to understand and know me, that I am Yahweh who executes mercy, judgment and justice on earth, for in these things I take pleasure, says Yahweh» (Jer.

The same equivalence between exercising justice and mercy and the knowledge of God is manifest in Jesus» vision of the judgment of the nations by the Son of Man (Matt.

9:22: «What if God, willing to show his wrath [that is, to vindicate his justice], and to make his power known, endured [that is, permitted] with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he hath afore prepared unto glory,»... There is indeed no reason why some are elected to glory while others are rejected, except the will of God.»

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.

But instead of giving Noah and his family justice, He chose instead to give him grace and mercy.

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.

The connection is charged: It is God who feeds and saves, and a meal is a sign of God's justice and mercy.

Here, the delay of justice was not the denial of justice, but rather the establishment of mercy and grace.

We must believe in the contents of all the messages concerning the code of laws which aims at the organization of human life in a way which meets the needs of mankind and promotes human welfare in accordance with His justice and mercy.

Catholics do not care only about mercy and penitence, of course, but also about justice.

What mankind desperately needs is Justice, Mercy, and Truth, but what we are offered is some ugly stained - glass windows and a holy tone and a collection plate full of dimes.

The fourth woe, Luke's first (Mt 23:23; Lk 11:42), charges the Pharisees with exacting tithes on spices and herbs but neglecting «the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faith.»