Sentences with phrase «as high moral»

Successful resumes for Minister mention skills such as high moral standing, expertise in their field, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, organization, initiative, and computer literacy.

I consider my beliefs as high moral standards.

Holding out health as the highest moral value... treating people as bad or wrong if they don't take charge of their health.»

Not exact matches

About a third of respondents say Moore, an evangelical who has described the race as a «spiritual battle,» has higher moral standards.

«Those aged over 70 are viewed by people as more friendly, more competent and as having higher moral standards than those in their 20s,» the researchers noted.

Managing China: Rather than checking China's ambitions, Trump's tariff move will allow Beijing to claim the moral high ground as a supporter of multilateral and open trade.

The tariffs, rather than checking the country's ambitions, will likely increase its confidence on the global stage, allowing Beijing to claim the moral high ground as a supporter of multilateral, open trade.

It had not occurred to me that anyone would imagine that the only alternative to a boundless confidence in reason's competency to extract moral truths from nature's evident forms, no matter what the prevailing cultural regime, is the belief that moral knowledge is the exclusive preserve of «revelation,» narrowly conceived as a body of inscrutable legislations irrupting into history from on high.

Well - meaning conservatives, while trying to encourage young people to behave as they should, have lost the moral high ground in the AIDS debate, and regaining that ground will be exceedingly difficult.

It is here, where the moral bonds of voluntary attachment have not yet been stretched beyond the breaking point, that true moral discourse can be maintained, especially, as Michael W. McConnell says, «over the highest things - matters of ultimate truth and value.»

Yet shortly after the council, the high culture of the West took a sharp turn toward an aggressive and hegemonic secularism that now manifests itself as Christophobia: a deep hostility to gospel truth (especially moral truth) and a determination to drive Christians who affirm those truths out of public life and into a privatized existence on the margins of society.

We in the secular world have too high morals to allow anything like this to go on for decades as your cult has protected child r@pists.

Nope, humans are exceptional, are higher amongst all of creation which makes them, as created being to be unique when it comes to moral choices they make.

For individualism, without such a grounding in a higher relationship, can just as easily be the basis of a criminal's resistance to a lawful regime as it can be the basis of the resistance of a moral hero to a criminal regime.

But upon a closer examination, the Bible has shown itself as reliable, accurate, both scientifically and prophetically as well as providing a high moral standard.

The likelihood of bringing about a higher good, i.e., eudemonia, by rudely expressing one's concern for others» health, voicing unflattering criticism, and forcing confrontational consideration of moral issues is small (and, in some cases, such as the friend who sings off - key, nil).

There are ways to be able to reason morality as objective (not in the usual religious sense however) without attributing it to a higher moral authority (god).

what upsets people is what i DO N'T do: such as lead in a particular way, teach with authority, be more charismatic, not setting a higher moral standard, stuff like that... it's not about what i or we DO as a community.

Rather, it is a variation of these along with the demonry of personality itself, of man's moral and rational capacities in tension with the sensitivities of spirit as a higher dimension of freedom and goodness which grasp him as a novelty of grace within his human structure, judging him, yet summoning him to that which is beyond his own human order of good.

The distinctively modern conception of natural law emerged as an effort to articulate common moral principles notwithstanding disagreement about the highest or inclusive good.

Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.

Akira, they wrap themselves in the twin cloaks of patriotism and the moral high ground while wielding their bible as a sledgehammer — at the same time, they feign persecution and portray themselves as victims despite their blatant discrimination.

But by understanding the moral norms in Israel and early Christianity as natural products of their times, we are able to look beyond them for indications of a higher, liberating view of women.

For here, the «presumption» tends to give higher priority to what were classically understood as important but secondary criteria, like «last resort» and «probable chance of success,» over the classic first - order criteria: competent authority, just cause, and right intention (about which, to repeat, we can have a greater degree of moral surety).

The «pacifist» proponents of nonviolent resistance do not, as many seem to think, occupy the moral high ground while the rest of us are prepared to get our hands dirty in «the real world.»

Instead of seeing the light in this article you decided to use it as moral high ground to condemn people who don't think the same way you do.

@ steve, I could also get into some of the «higher brain functions» that lead scientists to better understand why we have compassion and such; however, I think that many people don't really give compassion or morals a lot of thought or care as to where they come from, they are simply a part of who we are as a species.

xii - xiv), which results in giving a relatively low place to abnormal phenomena, and exalting moral and intellectual endowments, and, above all, agape, love or charity, to the highest places, is a genuinely scientific estimate of the situation as it was from the beginning.

As Gandhi and King both knew, taking on moral responsibility for those who hurt one is the highest form of dignity, the greatest example of strength.

The high moral teachings that Jefferson delighted in were the very teachings which exposed him (and us) as a sinner in need of redemption.

His heaviest count against the prevailing teaching of his time is precisely this: that, starting with the best intentions, it had come to encourage this folly and evil, as if it were inseparable from a high moral standard.

The high moral standard (love your enemy and do good to those who do evil to you) was unattainable (and obviously unacceptable as well) by Jefferson — who was in fact in rebellion against a government in which the Bible demands he should have been submissive and subject to.

With human exceptionalism cast aside, our new prime directive is to eliminate suffering, and eliminating the sufferer is now advocated in high places as a moral good rather than a pernicious harm.

Judaism, as an example, my view, has a very high set of moral values and its members have been murdered for their beliefs.

OK, then lets see articles about the rest of the GOP's candidate's beliefs... and the DEMs certainly play the moral high ground as well.

between the actual moral state of humanity as it is and the vision of the highest state humanity aspires to attain, there is a distance which humanity, by its own ability, certainly can not bridge.

(3) The State has as its primary moral demands the maintenance of justice and security; the Christian finds his highest obligation in love to God and his fellow men.

While admittedly of human origins, it has come to be thought of as authoritative also, in the expression of religious faith, and of very high value in the teaching of religion and morals.

It is such moral revulsion that speaks in the prophetic warnings and denunciations where we commonly meet the scathing summary of this whole system of religion: «On every high hill and under every green tree you prostrated yourself as a harlot» (Jer.

Just as omniscience means that all existence is regarded as intelligible, so holiness means that all action is involved in some moral order and that every moral achievement, however worthy, stands under a higher judgment.

Moreover, he had moral insight of a high order, as is shown by his essays, which still remain classic in the literature of ethics.

How, in God's name, is such a weak, ignorant, foolish individual entrusted with the rites of priesthood when this crime has happened so much for so long — how is it possible that the Pope, or any Bishop, or any Priest could say such a stupid thing as the child seduces the adult who is entrusted with upholding the highest morals of all?

However, the NY Magazine article highlights something very important — the people of God, who are called to hold to the highest standard of morals and ethics, now rank as the highest group percentage-wise of those who say that these things don't necessarily matter.

No Christian writer of the New Testament, so far as our records reveal, ever faced the responsibility of applying high moral principles to preserving the institutions of society, administering governments, handling international relationships, prosecuting social reforms, or even mitigating by public measures the inequities of an economic system.1

19, often referred to as the highest development of ethics in the Old Testament, begins: «You shall be holy, for I, Yahweh your God am holy»; and for the most part throughout the chapter the terms of holiness are moral and ethical.

I love it that my friend and you are wrestling with people who both of you see as OK guys with similar outlooks on social and moral issues and get on really well together but even though we can converse on belief the Old Testament is a massive stumbling block, a 100 foot high brick wall.

Hence Rabbit's constant remembrance of things past: his fading stardom as a high school basketball hero in Mt. Judge, Pennsylvania; his youthful marriage to the store - clerk Janice Springer; their many sexual felicities and infidelities; the deaths that each so horribly caused in their own house; their moral enmeshment in the lives of their friends and families, especially their elderly parents and their own son Nelson; Rabbit's jobs as a typesetter and car dealer, and now Janice's belated career in real estate; their financial prosperity during the boom of the «70s when they bought vacation homes in Florida and the Poconos; now their fear of economic ruin amidst the coming Depression.

The things that we regard as virtues, as the highest achievements of man's peculiar and separate greatness, he would condemn as vices and defects; and contrariwise, vices and defects are exalted by him into high moral commandments....

As celebrants of multiculturalism, the editors may protest that they can not limit themselves to biblical faith, since, after all, it has no higher claim on their attention than that it is the religious connection of more than 90 percent of the population and the religio - moral foundation of Western Civilization.

Developed cultures contribute additional layers of differentiation, replacing myth and tradition with unified cosmologies and higher religions, articulating well - codified moral precepts, and positing universalistic principles as modes of legal and political legitimation.