Sentences with phrase «anything virtuous»

If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

One of the LDS Articles of Faith is, in part: «We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent... if there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.»

If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things» I can live with those beliefs.

Not exact matches

According to the Reformed doctrine, total depravity makes man morally incapable of making a virtuous choice [of faith]... If total depravity does anything, it renders a man totally unable because he is indisposed to respond to the overtures of grace.

It is virtuous that a man should in measure sympathize with the sufferings of the lower animals: only in measure, for someone who tried to sympathize with a shark or octopus or herring would be erring by excess...; their life is too alien to ours for sympathy to be anything but folly or affectation.

If anything, the piles of numbers make it difficult to get at the core moral questions - how virtuous and how selfish are people, and how and to what extent can their ethical disposition be improved?

The rampant evil we see in the world today: ~ the corruption of human character so prevalent even in the young, ~ the disregard of everything that is pure, virtuous and godly, being replaced with apathy and indifference toward anything that stands for righteousness, ~ the boastfulness and pride in man's own achievements... ~ the inability to recognize the beauty and virtue in things that generations of the past naturally understood.

When we have been valiant and «virtuous» in the struggle (which means we have not eaten anything «sinful»), we know the gates of heaven are at hand (it only feels like hell).

Many surely are virtuous people, but that doesn't make their unique beliefs anything other than nonsense.

I tend to reach for anything classified as a carb in between my more virtuous moments when I have something like this kale apple salad, which was yesterday's spontaneous pantry / fridge - foraged lunch.

Opportunity to learn — or what QC terms «the tools to succeed» — can become a handy, even virtuous, excuse for not holding anyone to account for actually teaching or learning anything, or at least for justifying mediocrity.