Sentences with phrase «of race»

O God of every nation, of every race and land, redeem the whole creation with your almighty hand; where hate and fear divide us and bitter threats are hurled, in love and mercy guide us and heal our strife - torn world.

The poser to every sensitive member of the race is, in Shakespearean diction, «whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?».

Historically one of the most important typologies based on physical characteristics is that of race.

The Jewish organization alleges religious discrimination and unfair business competition, on the basis of several California statutes, including the state's civil rights act, which prohibits the refusal to engage in a business transaction on the basis of race, creed, religion, color, national origin or sex.

But in another fashion great souls have said, I must, so that they have become the glory of our race.

First, since process thought concerns itself with the totality of human experience, it must necessarily take very seriously the fact of the religious vision and the claim of countless millions of people of every race and nation and age to have enjoyed some kind of contact with a reality greater than humankind or nature, through which refreshment and companionship have been given.

Islam calls upon all people to accept its beliefs and code of laws regardless of race, sex, color, rank, or any other difference.

Lots of feminist websites have good lists of recommended writers — for example, this is an important list of Feminist Writers of Color, who discuss the intersecting issues of race, class, and womanhood in their feminist work.

Freud's notion of religion, which presents religion as a way of attaining the archaic memory of the race, seems to contradict our presentation of religion here, following Teilhard, as eschatological in orientation.

A final word may now be added regarding the destiny of the race as a whole.

Oddly enough, you can still get matched with candidates who have already dropped out of the race.

If this couple was indeed rejected because of their race, as a Southern Baptist I'm embarrassed, frustrated, and I apologize to the couple on behalf of the Convention for the hurt and emotional pain they've experienced,» Land's statement continued.

While, therefore, the lessons of the prophets, far from being forgotten, bore fruit in great examples of personal piety, the prophetic tradition could not break through to its logical conclusion — religion as a free, individual choice, regardless of race or nation.

In particular, differences of race, social position and of sex were being reduced by a new spirit of reconciliation.

By participation in an ongoing religious community, particularly of the type we know in the Western world, an isolated individual is partly lifted above himself, not only because he may, in a group, be more recipient of God's help, but also because he there shares in the distilled wisdom of our race.

Hence, the suggestions that arise from the application of the general scheme of thought to this special question of the nature of God may be weakened or may gain cogency according to the reading of these great intuitions of the race by which men live.

Thus, the idea of race as a basis for reliable and definite classification of individuals clearly has to be abandoned in favor of a problematic and inexact system of statistical abstraction.

In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Jewish Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel echoed this truth: «Whenever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must — at that moment — become the center of the universe.»

Even more important than the foregoing qualifications of the race concept is the recognition that the properties commonly employed in racial classification are humanly insignificant.

From search for wealth and power and scorn of truth and right, from trust in bombs that shower destruction through the night, from pride of race and nation and blindness to your way, deliver every nation, eternal God, we pray!

In the social location of all North Americans, issues of race, also, will rightly play a larger role than they have played thus far among Latin Americans.

She is the «highest honour of our race» because she cooperated in the most intimate and crucial way with the salvific work of God in Jesus Christ.

A reporter friend of ours has just read Shelby Steele's The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America (Norton).

Those didn't represent the current state of race in our country.

He was guarded in his wartime comments, conscious of the repercussions Jews might suffer, but in his 1942 Christmas broadcast he condemned the slaughter of innocent victims on the grounds of race or nationality.

Everyone should be able to do that in this country without fearing being shoot because of race and gender.

For this reason she is the most beautiful human creature to have ever graced this earth and is indeed the Highest Honour of our Race (cf Jud 15:9).

People who have been psychologically abused because of their race or sex may find it impossible ever to feel reconciled to members of the groups that have caused them torment.

Edward J. Blum is the co-author of The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America.

Few people need us to be a «voice for the voiceless,» instead I believe it's more powerful to elevate and amplify the voices from the margins, from the ones we overlook and pass over, to say that everyone is worth listening to and that — regardless of race, socio - economic status, geography, ability, and so on — people get to own their own stories.

The goal of the race was not to take off as soon as the gun sounded, but to move as slowly as possible.

Some competitors were so adept at staying stationary that the distance of the race was only a few yards.

Why and how one part of the American drama of race played out this way can be debated.

To the Jews «belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ», 328 «for the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

He then proceeded to blast Cruz for his campaign's «voter violation» letters — which has stirred up some controversy among Iowa officials — and an email that they sent insinuating that fellow presidential candidate Ben Carson was dropping out of the race.

In one study of a fundamentalist Protestant academy (Bethany Bible Academy), a Jewish intellectual found the Bethany students more tolerant on issues of race, religion and freedom of speech and less concerned with making a lot of money than their public school peers.

Because pennies is what people of my race deserve and we shouldnt expect better.

People of every race and religion have commited horrible acts, but as we know just because X % of group Y do bad things, does not mean group Y is bad or wrong.

The founding fallacy in the new church was a «defective ecclesiology» that provided for governance by a lay majority, dominated under a quota system by minorities and feminists, in which theologians were marginalized and issues of race and gender took precedence over traditional ecclesial and confessional concerns.

I immediately realize that this doesn't just apply to gays, but to all kinds of people because of race, creed, religion, social status, economics, and even personality types.

Even if one chooses to completely ignore the historical foundations of inequitable opportunities in America and tries to eliminate any discussion of race, we are still faced with the fact that millions of kids have grown up and are growing up in places where the economic incentives and social supports don't favor stable work and families.

I'm reminded of a famous quote: «The history of our race, and each inividual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and a lie told well is immortal» Mark Twain

And even that is under debate in my head and in our community because I somehow believe that this «Jesus» so embraces a universal comprehension of all things and all people, with no one excluded because of race, religion, sex or politic, that Jesus implodes to the point of disappearing, or, becoming the all in all.

Imagine if everyone had equal rights, regardless of race, religion,...

He sees that Christianity is not a matter of blood, or of race, or of victory in this world.

«For TNR to imply that people are able to identify only with those of their race means that no black can be held up as a role model for a white child.

The left is full of race baters and predjudices.

You can be of any race or ethnicity and convert to Judaism, but the Jewish people from Jesus» time were all Caucasian.

I'd hate to be considered of crimes committed by people of my race and / or religion.

I believe in nationality; not in terms of race or of divine commissions for world conquest, but simply thus: mankind inevitably organizes itself in communities according to its geographical distribution; these communities by sharing a common history develop common characteristics and inspire local loyalty; the individual family develops most happily and fully when it accepts these natural limits.