Sentences with phrase «with the injustice in»

When you find yourself in such a situation, Jesus says there is a way for believers to deal with injustice in our lives, and that is not to get caught up in the trading of hostilities and lawsuits that the rest of the world operates by.

No we shouldn't but with the injustice in the match a lot of our own faults are being overlooked.

«And, secondly, the bigger picture about how this Government has been committed to trying to deal with the injustices in society, some of which matter more to people from ethnic minorities.»

People can deal with injustices in many ways.

Not exact matches

Finding those with knowledge of the facts and issues surrounding child trafficking and coupling them with people who have a fiery passion for ending the injustice has allowed Love146 to grow their presence in both the US and the UK.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the most revered figures of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle and a key backer of the divestment campaign that helped end the system, was an early backer of fossil fuel divestment and said in 2014: «People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.»

Created by Soros in 1979, Open Society is a grant - making foundation with branches and partners around the world and focuses on supporting democracies and combating issues of injustice and discrimination, among other causes.

There is also plenty of injustice to be dealt with in the workplace.

Policy initiatives on transparency and government accountability, along with formal (albeit belated) responses to injustices in Wukan and other rural communities indicate a willingness to redress human rights issues involving abuses of political authority.

But fired up as I was about porn culture and sexual violence, and questioning attitudes towards women in the Church, I felt bombarded by messages about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to do anything to challenge the injustice I saw.

The trouble with tribunals, and the central response to past injustices in the liberal peace, however, runs deeper than their lack of visible success.

In civil wars with multiple factions, plucking criminals from one faction for prosecution may well raise cries of injustice from other factions and propel further conflict.

And should the Supreme Court be unwise enough to impose same - sex marriage on the whole country, the decision will be greeted not like Loving v. Virginia (overturning antimiscegenation laws in 1967), as an achievement of obvious justice, but like Roe v. Wade, with a tireless movement dedicated to overturning its obvious injustice, and a reinvigorated effort to pass a federal marriage amendment.

But you see the injustice in that — how arbitrary it is to deny women certain rights or positions or opportunities (with men being denied nothing) and figure there must be a good reason (because you're a good guy).

But, unlike this cartoon, the church is never fined for going too slow or taking too long dealing with abuses, inequalities and injustices within it's own ranks or in the world.

Wouldn't it have been wonderful if in the last two months we were constantly engaging with the Muslims of our community, clearly expressing our differences theologically, but also standing with them against injustice?

I'd rather learn to laugh with my new friends than resist the current assault of humor on corrupt power structures rooted in systemic injustice.

But if our default reactions to everything in culture we don't like is anger, than we risk being so consumed with our own outrage, that we drown out the voices that need to be heard — the voices pointing out systematic injustices, violence and corruption.

We, too, may need to navigate a Nile to dwell in desert solitude awhile, with foreign tongue and unfamiliar face endure injustice, exile, and disgrace.

But others will come forward with their long list of injustices that must be protested: the poor, the street people, the mentally ill, environmental abuse, substandard housing, unemployment, corruption on Wall Street, the absence of peace in the Middle East, and on, and on, and on.

The purely individual need for a fulfillment that is denied to us in this life, for an everlasting love that we await, is certainly an important motive for believing that man was made for eternity; but only in connection with the impossibility that the injustice of history should be the final word does the necessity for Christ's return and for new life become fully convincing.»

In fact such leadership might free the group up — allow them to stop constantly be looking inwards to their own structures and face out to the world that needs people with the balls to speak out for injustice.

By thoughtfully advocating for changes in unjust systems, providing relief in areas of raw need, and empowering people within broken neighborhoods to love one another, the power of the Gospel to deal with individual sin and systemic injustice will be proclaimed to the watching world to the praise of our Father.

I got this line from the interesting film, Machine Gun Preacher» when Sam Childers expresses this sad reflection, overcome with the cruel injustice he's witnessing in the Sudan.

Either one suffers with God, which doesn't make suffering worthwhile: or one ignores suffering and injustice in the hope of a spiritual salvation.

He deliberately chose to suffer in order to be truly one with humanity in all its suffering, including the suffering of injustice.

Nicole: Yes, it's heartbreaking to think that many people in the country haven't perceived Christians as concerned with one of our nation's biggest injustices.

In the course of her research into adolescent spiritual development, Almeda Wright has heard numerous stories and testimonies from young African Americans experimenting with new ways of relating spirituality to their protests against racial injustice.

Let us RISE to the questions of our time.Let us SPEAK to the injustices in our world.Let us MOVE the mountains of fear and intimidation.Let us SHOUT down the walls that separate and divide.Let us FILL the earth with the fragrance of Love.Let us be women who Love.

Camus, probably with Sartre in mind, rejects the notion that existence always precedes essence (Rb 296) and states that there is a creative source for rebellion against injustice in a «moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history» (Rb 251).

For the child of rape who struggles to forgive, the bad news is that she suffered a terrible injustice; the good news is that Jesus did too and he wants to fellowship with her in her suffering.

They were not ready to deal with the forms of injustice that it created until late in the 19th century.

There are families in my neighborhood who have relocated here with their kids, and one thing they tell me is that they want their kids to grow up knowing that not everything is okay in this world — that racism exists, that injustice exists, that just because someone smells doesn't mean we have to be afraid of them, and so on.

On the other hand, the non-Christian — the one who, living under a tyrannous regime or in a society where, it seems, social injustice will never end, wants to kill the tyrant or destroy the society; the one who, exploited or degraded by a colonialist regime, wants to kill the oppressor; the man who, victimized by a racist society, wants to avenge by violence the indignities heaped upon him — all these, along with their violence, their hatred, their folly, must be accepted by those of us who are Christians.

From the initial orientation sessions through the following four years, students are insistently reminded of the intolerable injustice of homophobia, with it frequently being suggested that a refusal to engage in homogenital acts is a form of homophobia.

Christians have always looked to the future to vindicate the present, and in doing so have made humanity restless with the injustice, ignorance and poverty that have characterized history.

I hold that in every situation of injustice and oppression, the Christian — who can not deal with it by violence — must make himself completely a part of it as representative of the victims.

Christians will be sufficiently and completely present in the world if they suffer with those sufferers the one way of salvation, if they bear witness before Gods and man to the consequences of injustice and the proclamation of love.

Their sense of having suffered injustice at our hands, along with a growing sense of autonomy and dignity among Latin American nations in general, seems to have been a significant element in our decision.

Alfred Neumann in Six of Them tells of a German professor of law who continued teaching in the early days of the Hitler regime, lecturing on justice with pointed reference to its subversion in the Nazi state.36 When fired from his position, the professor, his wife, and a loyal band of students publish secretly copies of his lectures and other material attacking the injustices of the regime.

To be a people of justice is to act with and on behalf of those in our society who are vulnerable to injustice.

I'm so overwhelmed right now with the depth of pain, sorrow, deception and injustice this world gladly bathes itself in that I just don't know what to say.

Long before Joseph Smith, some early Christians believed that the Son brought his celestial flesh down with him from heaven, but the Church Fathers thought this idea did a grave injustice to Mary, because it treated her as an empty vehicle through whom Jesus passed» in Valentinus» chilling image» as if through an aqueduct.

He was repeating the old story: the first birth of all peoples in God's image, stamped with reason and able to see each other as a neighbor, to be awakened in the second birth» in water and fire» of Christian charity that brooks no injustice.

The link is in the commitment of those who suffer and of those in solidarity with them to make no peace with whatever injustice or abuse is causing or contributing to their suffering, and in their commitment to celebrate the goodness and power in our relationships with one another — especially, in these moments, with those who suffer.

Taken on its own terms, read in the original languages, placed back into its historical context, the Bible is ho - hum on homosexuality, unless — as with heterosexuality — injustice and abuse are involved.

If we are giving significantly of our own money to combat hunger or poverty or injustice we are very likely to become interested enough in these efforts to invest some time and energy in them, to work with individuals and to become involved in policy debates and to confront the economic system.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

It's a rotten injustice when someone neglects to treat another with human dignity, especially if it's in the name of a belief system.

When you come into proximity with injustice something grows in you for God's heart, you don't have to learn it.