Sentences with phrase «christian virtue»

As she struggled in our session about how to be a good Christian woman and still hold onto her protective anger, I called on my knowledge of the Bible and challenged the idea that anger was inconsistent with Christian virtue, inviting her to think about the story of an outraged Jesus throwing the money changers out of the Temple.

He deeply believed in the connection between Christian virtue and education, but he refused to make that the official doctrine of his school.

Johnson's reply demonstrates in equal measure the great classical virtue of magnanimity and the great Christian virtue of forgiveness.

(1) The attempt on the part of both process and Christian virtue thinkers of Hauerwas» ilk to struggle anew with questions of the self and to shed the Cartesianism (substantialism?)

The Christian virtue of forgiveness, participants told researchers, is more difficult than ever to summon.

Acting according to one's conscience is not a Christian virtue but maybe a Mormon one.

Humility is an important Christian virtue, and one point at which even Christian ministers need to exercise it is in passing judgment on services conducted by their brothers in the Lord.

This view assumes that mercy is the Christian virtue, justice the secular one; mercy the virtue that tailors policies to the individual, justice the impersonal universal law; mercy is leniency, justice strictness.

Whether something is proposed for belief, for hope or for action, the love of Our Lord must always be made accessible, so that anyone can see that all the works of perfect Christian virtue spring from love and have no other objective and to arrive at love.

It would be unjust to force those who are not Christian to undergo training in Christian virtue — just as it would be unjust to force those who are Christian to undergo training in non-Christian virtue.

I'm not sure when or why it happened, but in some circles, entitlement has been declared December's Christian virtue.

In the early years of their long - running dialogue, Stout might well have expected Hauerwas's Christian virtue ethics to fit well with his own account of democratic virtues, the two value systems cooperating to sustain a secular democracy without yielding to the secularism of Rorty and others.

Love is a Christian virtue; tolerance, for all its pragmatic value, is not.

Editorials encouraged members of the American church to step up giving to missions and expressed confidence that the Western obsession with armaments would ultimately collapse, along with war, «through its own crushing costs, its horrible tragedies, and its merciless defiance of Christian virtue» (October 15, 1914).

(In short, charity, yet another fundamental Christian virtue, viewed not merely as a commandment or a disposition of the heart, but as a way of showing that one's view is true from every point of view.)

I have no doubt that lots of non-believers are generous — which, after all, is a pagan as well as a Christian virtue.

The ancient Christian virtue of detachment became at least suspect, often anathema.

I'm still healing from years of unhealthy exposure to this false Christian virtue.

But promptness isn't a Christian virtue.

This anger qualifies as a Christian virtue precisely because it shocks and jolts those who too facilely accept the prevailing structures of institutional sin.

The one Christian virtue he hung to most tightly was hope: «I think the key to my attitudes political and religious and personal may be that I expected, after a lifetime of giving the dark side of reality plenty of bold exposure, I still expected some kind of happy ending to rescue me at the end.

The strength — the feminism — she embodies is based on the Christian virtue of fortitude.

Precisely because of that contrast the irreverent religious recognizes in anger a positive Christian virtue.

oppression is not a christian virtue.

We can counterpose to this unrestricted superbia the Christian virtue of humility.

They will walk people into what Will Willimon and Stanley Hauerwas have referred to as «a community capable of sustaining Christian virtue.»

And I do not believe that stupidity is a Christian virtue.

@HeavenSent Is compassion not a Christian virtue?

The result of this has sometimes been to misconceive the Christian virtue of chastity and distort it into an avoidance of personal responsibility in the centrally important areas of sex, married partnership and parenthood.

Nor is it a Christian virtue to think we can.

It's as if politeness is the highest Christian virtue.

By safeguarding the privacy of our families and friendships and the quiet humility of our prayer life, we direct our lives towards God and uphold the Christian virtue of modesty, in all meanings of the word.

Contentment is not a Christian virtue that gets much airtime.

Is trolling considered a Christian virtue?

Humility is a distinctively Christian virtue, grounded in the doctrine of Christ's kenosis.

Is not love considered one of the highest of Christian virtues?

In my least sanguine moments, I think that the primary purpose of worship is to force us to be patient with one another, to practice the Christian virtues among our fellow believers.

Irreverent spirituality also has a contribution to make in the listing of Christian virtues, though as usual one might suspect that this contribution will be a bit unsettling to traditional religionists.

The values that the main characters embody — love, kindness, justice, loyalty, hope — are consistent with Christian virtues.

But that we can today speak of «Christian virtues» is due to the fact that one who reads the Gospels seriously is left in no doubt as to the general structure of what a life lived in obedient love would embody.

Before the change, gaining consideration for sainthood in the Catholic Church required martyrdom, living a life heroically of Christian virtues or having a strong reputation for religious devotion.

By the way, according to 1 Corinthians 13:13 faith, hope and love are the big three Christian virtues (cf. Col 1:5; 1 Thess 1:3; 2 Thess 5:8).

Remember I told you to keep your eyes peeled for the trinity of Christian virtues?

The priest, however, must exercise other functions besides administering the sacraments and institutional means can not empower him to fulfill these duties; hence he needs to practice spiritual discipline, cultivating all the Christian virtues; he also needs to study, for «how can he teach unless he himself possess knowledge» and have gained a «full grasp of the Catholic teaching on faith and morals?»

Q: What are the seven Christian virtues?

Regarding man's relation to man, it means the negation of what Jesus taught, and the opposite of what was outlined in the previous section as the Christian virtues.

One is to draw up a list of Christian virtues — honesty, generosity, courtesy, veracity, and the like — and define a Christian by their possession.

There are other portrayals of the Christian virtues in the New Testament.

There are Christian virtues.

Nevertheless, I repeat, there are Christian virtues, and in their possession Christian character bears distinctive marks.