Sentences with phrase «what human justice»

If it is our highest human task to «establish justice in the gate,» as the Torah prescribes and the prophets exhort, we also need a fairly sophisticated notion of what human justice is.

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What sets humans apart is love, i.e. our feeling for justice, our creativity in the face of challenges, our ability to empathize deeply and respond wisely.

The river's clean waters serve as the wellspring in what has steadily become one of the storied confrontations over energy development, justice, finance, and human rights in the American West.

Although, admittedly, taking positions is cheaper than directly meeting human needs through what the «peace and justice» enthusiasts derisively call «charity.»

I find meditation, and compassion for self to be conducive to what you talk of with loving God and mankind — sometimes in mysterious, unfathomable and transcendent ways, encountering the power to open up men and women to each other and God in love peace justice and human dignity.

Reorienting your life around what you believe about God and what it means to be truly human and believing every small life or act of justice matters comes with a cost.

Wisdom is writing of the human situation, and we must not suppose that if we agree with what he writes, we are assuming a schism between God's justice and his mercy.

With the changing demographics in America, including the racial and ethnic, socioeconomic, immigration, and biblical justice challenges of our day, it is more important than ever for people of color to have safe places to live authentically, serve humbly, and use their influence and experiences to shape our theology (what we know and believe about God) and our praxis (the ethics of our human behavior or what we actually do).

He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God (Mi 6:8): God hopes, indeed expects, mercy to emerge from liberated and sanctified human nature; God hopes, and indeed expects, that human beings should be just, merciful, and loving freely, not from compulsion.

Love, Justice, truth and peace — That is all what most humans want and it has nothing to with religion.

There is as yet no power able to deal with the major structural changes that are required for justice in the world, so that all persons may have what they need for decent human existence, existence that the modern world has ample means to provide.

The key to the situation lies in putting together what we know of God as Creator and Redeemer, and finding a view of God's relation to the world which will do justice both to the insights of biblical faith and to the facts of human experience.

Finally, because of all this, the Christian proclamation has as its end - product the bringing to the hearers an awareness of the reality of newness of life — what in the Fourth Gospel is called «eternal life» and «abundant life», what St. Paul is getting at when he speaks of «life in Christ» as possessing a particular and specific quality of giving - and - receiving in love, in divine Love which is then reflected and enacted in human loving, with its association with justice and righteousness and deliverance from loveless existence.

State the editors, «Those who know and practice... truth must ever stand as guardians of what is essentially the Christian tradition, and call before the bar of human justice and public opinion those who traduce these truths of natural and special revelation.

What is remarkable is the human capacity — in spite of this intensive societal indoctrination — to perceive where justice demands change, to discover that one's society or one's peers are morally wanting.

The spiritual challenge of our time is to realize our sacred humanness, that there need not be a conflict between the natural and the supernatural, between the finite and the infinite, between time and eternity, between practicality and mysticism, between social justice and contemplation, between sexuality and spirituality, between our human fulfillment and our spiritual realization, between what is most human and what is most sacred.

That means that God's justice is quite different from what human beings normally think of as justice.

The first hundred and fifty or so pages of his Leviathan show forth his attempt to paint that portrait of human being, but by almost universal agreement, he failed — that is, he could not both present human being as a part of the new nature and at the same time do justice to our direct experience of what it is to be human.

It would be to do for the modern era what Aristotle succeeded in doing for an earlier age — it would be to find a way, given the modern world's understanding of nature, to do justice to human being as a part of nature so understood.

Then and there I vowed to use whatever power that I had for good and against evil, to promote what is best in people, to work to free people from their self - imposed prisons, and to work against systems that pervert the promise of human happiness and justice (p. 179).

It has been prepared to say, and to find varying kinds of theological support for saying, what their Christian insight should have compelled it to say in any case: that any human being, anywhere, who has shared in love, sought for truth, created or admired beauty, lived bravely, served goodness, stood for justice, and has thus responded, as far as was possible under the circumstances in which he or she lived, to whatever of divine reality has been made known, must somehow be included in the company of the faithful.

All who are concerned with the human stewardship of the earth, with justice and with peace, are called to be committed to what makes for justice and for peace.

The point here is that human justice, no matter how imperfect, is what most differentiates us from animals.

Say: «Come, let me convey unto you what G - D has [really] forbidden to you: «Do not ascribe divinity, in any way, to anything (or anyone) beside HIM; and [do not offend against but, rather,] do good unto your parents; and do not kill your children (born or unborn) for fear of poverty --[for] it is WE who shall provide sustenance for you as well as for them; and do not commit any shameful deeds, be they open or secret; and do not take any human being's life -[the life] which G - D has declared to be sacred - otherwise than in [the pursuit of] justice: this has HE enjoined upon you so that you might use your reason; and do not touch the substance of an orphan — except to improve it - before he comes of age.»

I wept because I had been made to see, for the first time, that all the justice that must be shown the black man, all the help given him, everything that should be done legally to give him his rights, will never do what a simple act of love can do: make him know that he is accepted, cared for, yes, really loved by those who do not just «do good to him» but who feel with passionate concern that he is a human brother.

But the idea that every human law is imperfect, and therefore unjust to some extent, does indeed make sense, because we can imagine a perfectly just judge who administers perfect justice» who assesses a person's talents, motives, opportunities, weaknesses, ideals, history, and everything else about him, and then judges all his actions against the standard of what he is able to do.

This difference between divine and human justice makes necessary the secrecy of the confessional» what the penitent confesses is for God's tribunal of mercy alone, not for men.

It is characteristic of Plato to begin with some question out of human experience such as «what is justice?»

My aim is to nourish what I believe is an emerging new consciousness among many potential dreamers and doers in the churches who can help provide us with the visions and the values we need to promote a movement toward an ecologically optimum world community full of justice and joy in which the human race can not only survive but embark on exciting new adventures of physical and spiritual enjoyment.

In that way, and that way alone, Jesus rises from the dead and lives on in the human heart and mind because if you believe in the Resurrection then treat people without compassion, mercy, justice and forgiveness, what good is the any of it?

Or, to put it another way, religious significance must be described in terms that do justice to our human response to the distinction between what is essential and what is ephemeral.

Suffice it to say that the conceptuality which I accept — and accept because it seems to do justice to deep analysis of human experience and observation, as well as to the knowledge we now have of the way «things go» in the world — lays stress on the dynamic «event» character of that world; on the inter-relationships which exist in what is a societal universe, on the inadequacy of «substance» thinking to describe such a universe of «becoming» and «belonging», on the place of decisions in freedom by the creatures with the consequences which such decisions bring about, and on the central importance of persuasion rather than coercive force as a clue to the «going» of things in that universe.

The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.

Opponents dismiss us as bloodthirsty and inhumane, but let's see what a commitment to human dignity and justice really entails.

Indeed, one justice minister admitted that the cuts were made urgently and without time for research, in fundamental contradiction to what international human rights law and standards require, which is a thorough assessment of the likely impact on people and their human rights prior to the introduction of retrogressive austerity measures.

The bearded Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn criticised the Tory benches and their position on Human Rights and their support for a «Bill of Rights», making an emphatic argument that MPs should, «take a moment to praise the European Court of Human Rights & European Court of Justice and stop listening to the neanderthal voices behind him [the Tory backbenchers] in what was a very important step in improving the human rights after the second world war.&rHuman Rights and their support for a «Bill of Rights», making an emphatic argument that MPs should, «take a moment to praise the European Court of Human Rights & European Court of Justice and stop listening to the neanderthal voices behind him [the Tory backbenchers] in what was a very important step in improving the human rights after the second world war.&rHuman Rights & European Court of Justice and stop listening to the neanderthal voices behind him [the Tory backbenchers] in what was a very important step in improving the human rights after the second world war.&rhuman rights after the second world war.»

So the second set features three volumes — Conflict and Crisis, Rights and Justice, and Poverty and Development — that roughly translate into peace, development and human rights, but that take a broader view of what these areas encompass, with issues such as arms control, humanitarian assistance and transitional justice cJustice, and Poverty and Development — that roughly translate into peace, development and human rights, but that take a broader view of what these areas encompass, with issues such as arms control, humanitarian assistance and transitional justice cjustice covered.

Aside youth groups daily and openly declaring their support for him to use the justice system to fight what they described as injustice meted out to him, a number of big shots of the party are reported pledging solidarity and allegiance to the business magnate's action at the Human Rights Court in Accra.

A human rights group, Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has said the National Judicial Council must explain to Nigerians what it knows about the alleged attempt by a former Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, to induce the embattled Justice John Okoro.

The coalition Government do not intend to withdraw from the European convention on human rights, which was imposed by the victorious British on the rest of Europe after the war in order to establish British values across the countries that were recovering from fascism and was drafted largely by Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, who put what he thought were the best principles of British justice into it.»

What we don't know is exactly when the uniquely human capacity for empathy and justice emerged in our ancestors and how cultures build on a universal moral sense.

That court referred the case to the European Court of Justice, asking it to decide several questions, including what the E.U. law means when it refers to «human embryos,» and whether the ban also covers patents that don't involve embryos directly but where the use of embryos «is a necessary precondition» for the covered process or product.

While studying both of these subjects, I was exposed to a lot of social justice issues and found myself really interested in why there is such injustice in the world in all forms (lack of basic human rights, sex trafficking, refugee crises) and what causes people like you and I to react to them — psychologically, spiritually, emotionally.

What Raine and director Roger Michell set up is an almighty clash between justice as a human conceit and empathy as a human reality.

Resource includes: - Christian Attitudes to Human Rights - Christian Attitudes to Social Justice - Salvation Army - Christian Aid - What is Liberation Theology?

Arenas leads Hoover's after - school Garden Nutrition classes, one of several programs comprising the educational outreach of the People's Grocery, a nonprofit West Oakland organization that, in addition to providing the community with access to high - quality, affordable food, aims to educate children and adults about nutrition and what it calls «food justice,» or «the human right to healthy food.»

Even with people coming together in what is possibly the largest demonstration ever in the U.S. to advocate for change in women's rights, human rights, health care, civil rights, climate change and social justice, we still have difficult and important work to do.

What does it mean to speak of the human destruction of the climate in terms of criminal justice?

«Right now we have an opportunity to see climate change in a different light; to see it for what it is, a human rights issue on a dangerous collision course of race and class,» said Nia Robinson, director of the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative.

Given this consensus, all groups and individuals have a burden of demonstrating what justice would require of them in terms of emissions levels mindful that, as a starting point, all human beings should be entitled to equal per capita shares of safe emissions unless some higher level can be justified on moral grounds.