Sentences with phrase «peace and justice growing»

Or the temptation is to gorge ourselves on sorrow and anger and victimhood, to fill our hearts and minds only with the tales of hate and evil and horror, until we forget the beauty and peace and justice growing and rising like yeast among us.

Not exact matches

One of the most poignant experiences for young people growing up in our society is to espouse some cause such as civil rights or world peace — a cause they learned to love in their home or church — and then find that their parents are opposed to overt action on behalf of social justice.

To serve the God of love means to do what needs to be done to clear the way for that society of justice, peace, and growing brotherhood which God wills.

Kirkridge's mission is to «picket and pray»: to join the work for peace and justice with a serious effort to grow in relationship with God.

«It is crucial for us to continue to acknowledge and show appreciation for this unique and honorable display of humanity and compassion, especially in today's world where we must work together to fight the growing trend of radicalism and stand up for justice, interreligious cooperation and peace.

www.whiteband.org «Challenging the institutions and processes that perpetuate poverty and inequality across the world to defend and promote human rights, gender justice, social justice and security needed for survival and peace» The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, -LSB-...]

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»