Sentences with phrase «peace in a violent world»

The newly baptized then becomes a part of the community of believers who walk in the light of Christ and seek paths of peace in a violent world.

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What the world needs is not peace but revolution — not violent revolution but fundamental change in economic relationships between the poor and the rich.

Yet it is together, as church, that we are meant to witness to peace in a cruel and violent world and bring a message of hope in the face of despair.

But I would like my grandchildren to live in a world less violent than the one I have navigated, and it would be a moral failing if I refused to play my part in creating this world because I was too proud to change my mind or too mistrustful to work with people whose experiences may be different but who grieve as I grieve and share my prayers for peace.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

In a world where humans and demons coexist under a fragile peace, change is coming... A mysterious drug, known only as «Zone - 00,» seems to be causing demons all over Tokyo to lose control and revert to their old, violent ways.