Sentences with phrase «people in our society»

I believe that people in our society are losing their sense of civility, courtesy and respect.

«Arguments about net neutrality shouldn't be used to prevent the most disadvantaged people in society from gaining access or to deprive people of opportunity.

«It's still one of these things that people in our society find incredibly important and interesting about other people,» he says, with what sounds like annoyance.

Uneducated person has nothing to offer other people in the society.

He was brave and unrelenting in his role, particularly when it came to forcefully advocating for children in care — the least powerful people in our society.»

He hung out with 12 blue - collar dudes for three years and partied with the most sketchy people in society, people who I'm almost positive told jokes crass enough to make your pastor shudder.

It's offensive to have people in our society say things like this, especially on camera.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

He fights with every religious leader of his day (they are representives of God), hangs out with some of the lowest people in society (drunks, prostitutes, tax collectors), healed people on the sabbath (they see this as against the law), healed lepers (also against the law), accepts some Gentiles and heals them (outside his actual mission), died for all of «humanity», etc..

We simply have cluster of people in our society that insist on pretending its the 11 century?

Those who benefit from it tend to be the best educated, the most articulate, and the most politically active people in society.

Is it any wonder, then, that large numbers of persons in our society ask in all seriousness, Who is my true family?

There is this woman — this small, unnoticed, uncared - for woman who hardly counted as a person in her society.

There are many people in our society who came out of a church, but they didn't come all the way out.

Three categories of people in the society - pro abortion, anti abortion, and those who don't care.

Because both people in society and people in our churches live in the public realm, and because existence in the public realm validates authority and relevance, the absence of church presence in the public realm of the media diminishes people's perception of the relevance of faith to their everyday existence - ie.

Attalus was a popular and well respected person in the society He was dragged into, the amphitheatre with a placard in front of him on which was written, «This is Attalus, the Christian».

I know there are good people in every society working for change for the better.

It is love to obey God, and by having a swift death penalty we love the people in our society [many of whom are our enemies also] and offer them the best chance for a life free from fear and crime.

3/4 of people in our society are responsible and good people.

Because God has a track record of choosing the most unsuitable people in society to accomplish His will.

If we add to this the sexual activity of young men of the same age, of gay men and lesbian women at a later stage of life, and that of unmarried and divorced heterosexual couples, it becomes clear that the sexual practice of people in our society is quite different from that held to be normative by the traditional teaching of the churches.

Plenty of evidence is in on this point: when a ruling elite decides to destroy a group of people in a society, most of the people who are not targeted will not resist, whatever their religious affiliation.

and why are they the most ruthless people in society?

In the biblical view, the raping of nature and the exploitation of people in society are profoundly understood as part of one reality, creating disaster in both.

In fact it is readily apparent in the lives around us that many people in our society have already made this grievous misidentification.

We are persons in society, living in commonality with our brothers and sisters.

In fact there are few people in society that can not point to some part of themselves and give an example of the media focusing on a negative stereotypical image.

As the changing socio - economic conditions of nineteenth - century urban, industrial America demanded of the church a reassessment of its understanding of people in society, it was the Social Gospel movement which arose to take seriously the reality of corporate sin and the need for corporate response.

«Each person represents a life that is struggling without the support that people in our society deserve.

But at the same time, as Whitehead also noted, the «topic of religion» is the person in society, and that for an obvious reason.

The people in our society today who know the Bible best seem to be the same ones who live it least.

For me, the relationship between the ancient Catholic Churches and the young ones is similar to the relationship between young and elderly people in a society.

When you throw a party Jesus said, do not do it like the majority of people in society who only invite those who will return the favor.

The proportion of dependent persons in our society has hardly changed since the turn of the century.

Descriptively, the public sphere refers to that aspect of social action, cultural institutions, and collective decision - making that affects all people in the society and engages the interests of all people in the national body....

The man reminds us of people in our society; he has discovered that having a lot of money doesn't necessarily mean that one feels fulfilled and right with God.

The Gospels are filled with stories of Jesus physically healing the most vulnerable and despised people in his society.

Such notions have little or nothing to do with love; they are a matter of human justice which may be a mode of love's expression in certain situations but they are also very misleading because love is ultimately not concerned with «justice» in the vulgar sense — it is above justice, whose interest is either retributive or distributive, for the interest of love is with persons, persons in society with their fellows, and the fulfillment of selves in the giving - and - receiving which is mutuality or union.

Through the sharing of mutually meaningful symbols, hymns, prayers, and liturgies, a congregation experiences a drawn - togetherness which helps to overcome the shadow of loneliness which haunts sensitive people in our society.

Moral and legal rules are the product of society, and, though they may have validity in a particular cultural setting, they ought not to be «universalized» to apply to all peoples in all societies.

I can on principal agree with your belief but the question would judge her if she were just another person in society that was not a talent.

Too many people in our society teach their children how to live but not how to die.

There is considerable resonance between what ordinary people in society value and what the megachurches have to offer.»

We know that television entertains us, a companion ever ready with the escape and fantasy we sometimes need, but also that it cultivates a mean world full of violence, that its values and stories demean and dehumanize us, and that its religious impact is the very antithesis of the Christian faith in which most people in our society profess to believe.

The imperative to liberalize has demanded a shrinking of state involvement in national life, producing a wave of privatization, cutting jobs, slashing health, education and food subsidies, etc. affecting the poor people in society.

In fact, the religious view considers the secularist «mechanical materialist view of reality as too reductionist and as leaving out the «organic» and «spiritual» dimensions of human being and history and therefore as unable to renew the values of humanism and its reverence for life and the dignity of the human person in society in the name of which secularism started to protest against religious authoritarianism.

Gay persons in our society frequently have been told by their families that they do not belong to them, by the church that they are desperate sinners because of their sexual orientation, by the medical profession that they are sick, and by the law that they are criminals.

The important thing is that television is laying the foundations of a consistent and integrated system of belief which fails to reflect the diversity of social reality but which is consistent with the economic system which has given it birth and serves the needs not primarily of people in society but of its corporate managers.

But marriage has been the dominant experience of most people in our society for good reason.