Sentences with phrase «doubt as a virtue»

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.

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Despite his virtue, I have my doubts — if such may be the case — on Santorum as an effective Republican nominee.

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-.

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.

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

However, many go to the other extreme and set up doubt as the paradigm of virtue in the quest for knowledge without acknowledging the «faith» that any quest for knowledge requires.

If in doubt, just check out the video for «Picasso Baby,» Jay Z's attempt at performance art on July 10th, 2013, in New York's Pace Gallery where, touted and cheered on by such (former) artist hero - cum pop stars as Marina Abramovic, Jay Z waxed eloquently about the virtues of artistic creation by rapping about his forays into art collecting.