Sentences with phrase «as virtues»

The key to this, Dr Foo says, is to foster a caring family culture — for instance, say something like «In our family, we respect our parents, we hold kindness and caring for each other as virtues.»

Features that were later viewed as virtues of plate tectonics were attacked as flaws of continental drift.

The shape of the head, the shoes and the blood are typical items belonging to human beings and they show as these virtues are intrinsic to humanity and part of its nature.

These institutions promote social justice and inclusivity as virtues of good character, and where public school attendance is determined by residence and highly segregated on socioeconomic lines, Catholic schools, especially those that participate in school choice programs, are diverse in terms of race, social class and even religion.

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....

He understood how commonly vices pass themselves off as virtues, as when tightfistedness masquerades as frugality.13 He illustrated: A parishioner who is wasteful may pretend to be generous.

But that mirror should register the faults of the middle class as well as its virtues.

That is, pastors and churches leaders raise up these «sins» as virtues to be acquired.

But there is something else that appears to indicate that Thomas» identification of faith, hope and love as virtues is not entirely without difficulties.

Familiarity and affinity breed bad habits as well as virtues.

If modern Christianity has patterned itself after Jesus, then the Jesus we present to the world is not the Jesus who rejected the offers of self - reliance, control over others, and glory before men, but is the «Jesus» who has accepted such values and now holds them up as virtues.

Throughout most of recorded history, theologians and philosophers have extolled propriety and correct social behavior as virtues akin to morality.

I would have thought being amicable at work would have been seen as a virtue not something to be seen as a negative?

«This is not the time to humble brag by citing a mistake that can actually be seen as a virtue, like a time you worked «too hard» on a project or didn't delegate because you wanted to keep a close eye on quality,» she says.

Most people lean hard into their perfectionism — they extol it as a virtue to the point that it becomes a vice.

For a host of reasons, governments the world over have chosen to cut spending, not as a virtue, but as what they believe to be the less severe of two painful options.

Men have been taught dependence as a virtue.»

There are different brands of christianity, but selflessness is usually seen as a virtue, arrogance is not.

Not only can they freely make up their own rules, they can redefine their disobedience to their own system as a virtue!

I too, as a virtue ethicist atheist whose transhumanism seems to be rooted in dualism as Leah is, can only ponder tha Kantean imperitives of vanilla dualism by mean of the French feminist approached to hermaneutics.

Try to imagine a man who had 300 wives and 700 concubines being extolled as the virtue of wisdom!

I don't really look at it as a virtue.

In America, that acquiescence was embraced as a virtue.

Faith in «god» is considered by christians, jews and muslims as a virtue while faith in fairies, elves, leprechauns, and a myriad other fantasmagorical beings is a sign of insanity.

The catechism, it will be seen, assigns belief in God and trust in God to two different virtues, though as Benedict XVI's Spe salvi points out, in several Biblical passages «the words «faith» and «hope» seem interchangeable»; [10] but is either of them to be counted as a virtue?

That our laws permit the killing of unborn children is already a sign of the barbarity which arises from radical individualism, albeit it dressed as virtue in the claim to be ensuring the «right to reproductive health».

Every age in fact finds that people try to rationalise wrongdoing and dress it up as virtue.

Those without a voice or proper sense of self have been taught to see their humiliation as the virtue of humility.

I've spent a lot of energy over the years defending civility as a virtue.

The church of the future will have to learn to embrace relativity as a virtue and to dismiss certainty as a vice.

The American Values Network, a group of political activists and pastors, sparked a debate when it recently released a video challenging some conservative and Republican leaders» professed admiration for Rand, an atheist who saw selfishness as a virtue and celebrated unfettered capitalism.

Rand did not see selfishness as a virtue (liberals read so poorly they can not Rand).

The ancient monks saw zeal as the virtue opposed to sloth, and in the Christmas readings we find the «zeal of the Lord» invoked by both the prophet Isaiah and the author of the letter to Titus.

Likewise, «Often inordinate laxity is believed to be kindness, and unbridled anger passes as the virtue of spiritual zeal.

Aquinas defined chastity as the virtue which moderates the desire for sexual pleasure in accordance with right reason.

Conformity is encouraged as a virtue.

Eliminating suffering by eliminating the sufferer is not seen by euthanasia supporters as a vice, but as a virtue.

As virtue is its own reward, so faith supplies, in a similar way, its own verification.

That the narrowness of the «lower experience» has been often considered the meaning of happiness by common sense while security and order in life are extolled as virtue is itself a tragic testimony to the folly of human timidity, as analyzed below.

Clearly, in the context of our cultural moment and the song itself, recklessness is being used as virtue rather than character flaw.

You would think that, with the great history of Luther always before us, evangelicals would be more open to embracing religious doubt as a virtue.

Jesus thought of love neither as a virtue which belongs to the perfection of man, nor as an aid to the well - being of society, but as an overcoming of self - will in the concrete situation of life in which a man encounters other men.

For example, in one of the better chapters, entitled «Human Justice and Animal Fairness», the reader is introduced to Maasai systems of gift - giving, game theory as applied to chimpanzee behaviour, canine sensitivity to fairness, rules of play among wolves and rats, before a brief detour into Martha Nussbaum's development of Rawlsian justice theory leads us to an extended discussion of Aquinas» understanding of justice as a virtue, acquired and infused.

So mired in white blindness, so lost in the liberal orthodoxy that counts mere dissociation from racism as virtue, and so addicted to the easy moral esteem that comes to her from dissociation, Dowd plays the oldest race cards of all - I'm white and you're black, so shut up and be grateful for my magnanimity.

The church has long taught fortitude as the virtue of adversity and as a fruit of the Spirit (Gal.

You've done a fine job of illustrating why most atheists have zero credibility and actually lack the theological knowledge they promote as their virtue.

This is widely touted as a virtue for churches, yet the Catholic Church and the Salvation Army are two rigorously bureaucratic groups that continue to lead social service efforts.

The Romantic cult of selfhood, then, is in large part responsible not only for the scarcity in our culture of real friendship, considered as a love and as a virtue, but also for our general inability to realize that anything is missing.

The selections from ancient Greece, Rome, and China, along with those from the Renaissance and Enlightenment, clearly conform more closely to Lewis» understanding of friendship as a form of love, and to the Aristotelian emphasis on friendship as a virtue, than do most of the modern selections.

The Church's tradition regards poverty voluntarily chosen for spiritual ends as a virtue.