Sentences with phrase «of resisting evil»

The whole history of constitutional government is a commentary on the excellence of resisting evil, and when one cheek is smitten, of smiting back and not turning the other cheek also.

As nonviolent ways of resisting evil spread and as non-oppressive ways of governing increase, we can «stand up and raise our heads, because our redemption is drawing near.»

She could be serious as well as humorous, and frequently expressed her hopes and ideals, as a way of resisting the evil she knew was rising outside the annex: «I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.»

Not exact matches

Bush emerged from a tour of the Yad Vashem memorial calling it a «sobering reminder» that evil must be resisted, and praising victims for not losing their faith.

He said «You have heard it said by them of old time... (referring to the old testament), but I say unto you...» Such as «resist no evil,» «turn the other cheek.»

They were not confronted by the choice of safety by conforming to evil or danger by resisting it.

What motivated these German anti-Nazis to resist the powerful Hitler regime is an important object lesson for more precisely locating the roots of the moral evil of Nazism by understanding the source of its antitheses (malum privatio boni est).

Jesus certainly did not kill and probably did not whip the moneychangers, but he clearly resisted their evil in a dramatic act of civil disobedience.

But in the absence of such means, the tradition of just war views armed conflict as an appropriate way to resist evil, protect innocent lives and restore just social relationships.

It seems to me that Jesus» own actions show that a quietist interpretation of his command not to resist one who is evil (Matt.

Only God can provide the inner strength to resist the temptations of the Evil One.

Stay close to Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith, resist the devil, turn away from evil, do the good that Jesus and Paul encouraged believers to do, maintain your faith in God, who justifies you and you should be fine.

yet they themselves «sinned» before they knew the difference between Good and Evil... Or as you are trying to twist it — judgment of good and evil God must be immoral, if it punishes innocent people for sins they do not understand and could not resEvil... Or as you are trying to twist it — judgment of good and evil God must be immoral, if it punishes innocent people for sins they do not understand and could not resevil God must be immoral, if it punishes innocent people for sins they do not understand and could not resist.

He resisted also the temptation to depict opponents as wholly evil while casting oneself and one's allies as the «children of light.»

In one sense, Jesus» ethic was so demanding as to break the hearts of all who would follow him: Sell all you have and give to the poor, resist not one who is evil, love your enemy, take no heed for the morrow.

But the evils of this world, so far as it is given us to discern them, are to be resisted, not merely endured.

To those who quote sections of the Koran that say «slay the infidels» and think that this shows that Islam teaches violence, I say — those things are metaphors for resisting evil within oneself within one's own mind, resisting anything that turns one away from God.

It takes formidable faith and devotion to resist the evils of one's age, and it is to the history of Christian asceticism — especially, perhaps, the apophthegms of the Desert Fathers — that all Christians, whether married or not, should turn for guidance.

And all I can think of is «Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God» and «do not resist an evil person.

Eph 6:13 Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.

5) Does our life together honor Jesus, those who have gone before us, and those among us who are: Renouncing assumed privilege, conscientiously resisting evil, striving for justice and peace, bringing hope to those Jesus called the least of his sisters and brothers?

On the other hand, this vision also functioned to resist what were deemed to be the evils of colonial and mercantile interests.

Some of the most widely quoted sayings in the Sermon on the Mount, and the ones most consistently violated, are the commands (Mt 5:38 - 42) to turn the other cheek, to give the cloak when deprived of the coat, to go two miles when compelled to go one, to refuse no request for a gift or a loan, to offer no resistance to an evil man, as recent translations read where the KJV says «resist not evil.»

To a certain extent, Christianity could resist these kinds of evil structures; so it was not a denial of other religions, but the denial of evil practices which were exploitative, oppressive and dehumanizing.

Therefore, take up the full armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.

If they forget the source of their power, if they rebel against God, if they no longer act as God's deputies, if instead of rewarding good conduct and punishing evil conduct they do the reverse, they must be resisted.

Yet at the same time, by always insisting on the inadequacy of philosophy to explain evil, they resist any tendency to «explain evil away» or «neutralize» it by a greater good, and thereby render evil in our world terribly real to us.

It is to resist despair, to resist giving in to the terrible prices of the struggle — the loss of friends, the stubbornness of evil, the inevitable weariness — and to resist giving up hope when early victories become clouded by defeat, the way becomes difficult, and the goal seems ever more distant.

Even in the face of the worst evil ever committed — the slaughter of the innocent Lamb of God — Jesus did not resist, but said, «Father forgive them.»

There is no negative consequence in terms of eternity to encouraging people to maintain their faith in Jesus and resist evil and stand firm against the wiles of the devil until we are called home.

It is not required of Christian love to bear all things when evil ought to be resisted, or to believe all things when false ideas, beliefs, or rumors are circulated.

Are you like some sort of Superman who can resist the magical hypnotic persuasive power of the evil Jews?

First of all, we may say that in our personal lives we are called upon to resist the powers of death, disease, and evil.

There is, to use a phrase of C. H. Dodd, a «fundamental wrongness» in human life, in which every living man is inescapably involved; a «reprobate character,» a tendency toward evil, which no man can successfully resist.

At the heart of von Hildebrand's essays are three beliefs: the need for Christians to guard against evil; the willingness of believers to resist it; and the obligation of the Church to uphold the teachings of Christ, regardless of the situation.

Describing himself «as one who lived and suffered through the dark days of the Nazi regime in Germany,» the German - born pontiff said it was «deeply moving... to recall how many of your fellow citizens sacrificed their lives, courageously resisting the forces of that evil ideology.»

If she was able to touch the human being slumbering under the surface of «Prime Evil,» could she resist being drawn into sympathy with him and then into excusing his behavior?

Because Jesus did resist evil, not by the sword but by deeds of love and mercy, the Christian pacifist believes that the followers of Jesus are called to resistance by the same methods.

Citation of the passage, «Do not resist one who is evil.

Until that time, Communists had disdained «bourgeois morality» and insisted that the only moral good was to advance the progress of Communism, and evil was to resist it.

To put it somewhat differently, the biblical and patriotic gestures of his Letter and famous speeches allow him to conjure an atmosphere of love and loyalty — love of God, love of neighbor, loyalty to country, loyalty to place — even as he spoke forcefully about the need to resist evil.

Even when taunted with the charge that this is mere wishful thinking, the Christian knows otherwise and in this trust finds confidence to resist all manner of earthly tyranny and evil.

Most of us know in our souls that we have no intention of fulfilling Jesus» incredible demands: sell all, resist not the evil man or woman, take no heed for the morrow, leave one's family, bear the cross.

«Resist not evil,» «Love your enemies,» these are saintly maxims of which men of this world find it hard to speak without impatience.

And it has everything to do, I suggest, with four themes that arise from the modern expression of Ockhamite nominalism: the deterioration of the idea of freedom into willfulness, the detachment of freedom from moral truth, an obsession with «choice,» and the consequent inability to draw the most elementary moral conclusions about the imperative to resist evil.

He was subsequently sent to South Africa, as a missionary, where he spent seven challenging years, resisting the «evil and iniquitous system of apartheid,» many years before its eventual fall.

To resist victimization by means of counterviolence would be to reinforce the very evil that sacrifice seeks to contain.

He has proven himself able to resist the temptations that lead to sin and its evil consequences: pride in human self - sufficiency, idolatry, doubt of God's promises.

Part of me admires the movie for wanting to truly establish a relationship, but part of me resists such efforts because I know they're all just part of the set - up: Once she's gone, he'll have to find the evil - doers, whether he and the girl were bosom buddies or not; that's just how movies work.

Description: Ten years after Episode I, Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman), now a senator, resists the creation of a Republic Army to combat an evil separatist movement.