Sentences with phrase «by high moral»

If what is demanded of me by high moral principles also leads to my deliverance in a situation where not to act in accordance with these ethical demands or to continue in my same ways of acting leads to my destruction, then there are possibilities for basic transformations of my ideas, attitudes, and goals.

To me greater good comes when every individual abides by the highest moral values.

Not exact matches

«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.

The researchers also rated past presidential candidates» charisma, by combing their speeches for charismatic tactics - storytelling, expressing moral conviction, setting high goals.

The researchers also rated past presidential candidates» charisma, by combing their speeches for charismatic tactics — storytelling, expressing moral conviction, setting high goals.

How many Newts pervade the GOP who disgustingly take the moral high ground by campaigning on «family values» then turn around and abandon a wife with cancer?

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).

My own father, a person of the highest moral character and integrity was accused of being shady by my abuser because he tried to find us alternative housing when my abuser (although court ordered to pay the mortgage) willfully and vindictively drove it into foreclosure and the kids and I homeless, while he went off and bought he and his spiritual wife a new home.

I think a big thing about being spiritual is believing in something higher than yourself without being tied to some arbitrarily specific moral code created by people (not God (s)-RRB- in the context of their times that often has horrifyingly backwards and incredibly immoral rules.

And while Christianity's highest and deepest implications may tax the brains and moral courage of the most fully developed personalities, they can also be accepted by the relatively simple and ungifted.

We live in an age whose chief moral value has been determined, by overwhelming consensus, to be the absolute liberty of personal volition, the power of each of us to choose what he or she believes, wants, needs, or must possess; our culturally most persuasive models of human freedom are unambiguously voluntarist and, in a rather debased and degraded way, Promethean; the will, we believe, is sovereign because unpremised, free because spontaneous, and this is the highest good.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

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.

Ordinary people want the best for society and can certainly work together without needing to derive moral authority by citing a higher power.

They mark the conclusion of what we call the once - born period, and represent the highest flights of what twice - born religion would call the purely natural man — Epicureanism, which can only by great courtesy be called a religion, showing his refinement, and Stoicism exhibiting his moral will.

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.

When the Church quite praying, at the time that it was infiltrated at the highest levels by Luciferians, when liberal theology and moral relativism kicked in, God was separated from government.

They live on a higher moral plane that is seldom understood or questioned by their fans.

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.

Any anthology which presents only the high and noble points of a sacred literature really misrepresents that literature, for it is not all by any means of equal beauty or interest or of equal moral or religious insight.

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

But apparently it's a country where good moral people can be manipulated by self - serving politicians into being distracted from the larger issues by high - school debate questions like «when does life begin» or «should gays marry,» or even «is being gay a choice.»

So your idea that they both share some universal idea is contradicted by the fact that they both realized that the highest moral callings that each of them embraced were never going to be anywhere near universally - adopted, not even in an ideal world.

I am an atheist and I live by a very high moral code that is derived from the understanding that nothing is going to save me when I die.

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

«What I see in the Bible's accounts of Jesus and his followers is...» Well, therein lies your problem, Mark Osler, you need to rely on your Higher Authority to know what is right, wrong, moral, immoral and pleasing to or punishable by our Creator.

Most strikingly, however, it prescribes with the ritual requirements for meeting the restrictions created by Yahweh's holiness an even higher moral, social and ethical demand than is found in either of the other codes.

And so we are thrown into the moral dilemmas of war, with ever higher stakes and difficult decisions that must be made by our often ill - equipped political leaders.

But that Old Testament law was, judged by moral and religious standards, prevailingly on a higher level than that of contemporary and neighboring peoples is also beyond dispute.

Now, however, the high moral ground of liberty, justice, and openness had been captured by those who interpreted those terms in ways decidedly more radical than the establishment had ever conceived.

What makes you the authority to take the moral high ground now or is this just a sham by you to take God out of the US??

Unfortunately most of the products that slimy companies like Hobby Lobby sell are manufactured in third world countries by impoverished people and yet they declare they have the moral high ground, desp!cable hypocrisy.

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....

Jean Baptiste Marie Vianney (1786 - 1859), the Curé of Ars, wrought a moral transformation in the village where he was priest, was sought by high and low from far and wide for spiritual counsel, and was also canonized in 1925.

For if the ethical (i.e. the moral) is the highest thing, and if nothing incommensurable remains in man in any other way but as the evil (i.e. the particular which has to be expressed in the universal), then one needs no other categories besides those which the Greeks possessed or which by consistent thinking can be derived from them.

The Church could no longer interfere with the Government just as the Government could no longer interfere with the Church, but through voluntary reform groups the Christian citizen could, by moral pressure and a majority legislation, see to it that public morality was kept at a high level.

This classic theological insight has been obscured or rejected by many current developments in theology, but the costs may be extremely high, for its implications may well be true not only of personal moral and spiritual life, but of the entire biophysical cosmos as well.

The Chronicle of Higher Education and Change have been much concerned about values recently, as have the American Association of Higher Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several universities.

How high his moral standard was could not be better demonstrated than by his declaration that to look at a woman with lust is to commit adultery in one's heart.

By putting their family on such a high moral pedestal, they now have horrible people like me slavering for «scandals» to pop up because a fall from grace is pretty entertaining when it's someone as smug and douchey as Jim Bob Duggar.

We never committed to one single particular book on sleep habits either — like you, I was somewhat overwhelmed by all the choices (and the LENGTH, I mean, if my kid isn't sleeping, I probably don't have the time, energy or focus to devote to a 700 - page tome ABOUT SLEEPING), and found that too many authors turned sleep into a moral high ground.

How could Party leaders be consistent with the values (fiscal restraint, social conservatism — e.g., high moral code) they have professed for 30 years and nominate someone with zero performance in reducing expenditures even on a local level, someone tainted by giving and receiving political favors as a Commissioner on the Port Authority, and someone linked for 20 years by business and marriage to mobster activities?

Tomasi tries to deflect worries about capitalism in practice by claiming the high ground of ideal theory: the philosophical choice between free market fairness and its alternatives ultimately rests not on empirical and feasibility concerns, but rather on which vision of justice is most compelling at a moral level.

IF, and it's a big IF, there were to be a hung Parliament next time around, far better that the LibDems (and I guess this applies to the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Dr. Dick Taylor too) act as kingmakers by voting for or against the government, whether it be Labour or Conservative, * on the merits of each individual piece of legislation * than propping up some of the most loathsome, reactionary policies this side of the self - styled moral crusaders from the ear of High Thatcherism.

De Blasio, seeking to claim moral high ground, explained his absence at that hearing by noting that he had answered nearly four hours of questions — mostly unrelated to mayoral control — at a hearing in Albany in early May.

Neither is there much difference by party — 56 per cent of Labour voters take a high moral stance on this issue, as do half of all Tory voters and 45 per cent of Lib Dems.

Legislators whose practices had come under scrutiny by the commission somehow captured the moral high ground, as Cuomo caught flack for interfering in the commission's workings.

Instead of engaging the police - union boss, the mayor would stick to a three - part plan: occupy the moral high ground by talking about honoring the families of the murdered cops and avoiding political fights, empower «responsible» voices to echo de Blasio's message, and isolate the «bad actors.»

Seeking to claim the moral high ground in his ongoing battle with the Senate Republicans over the renewal of mayoral control, de Blasio skipped a second hearing on the subject held by the conference in Manhattan.

In no way can business seek to claim the moral high ground by simply paying its taxes.