Sentences with phrase «goodness of other actions»

In a social context where the default position of most people is a crude mixture of utilitarianism and relativism, we need to reiterate the intrinsic wrongfulness of certain actions (e.g. killing the innocent), and the intrinsic goodness of other actions (consensual sexual intimacy in marriage).

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Thank goodness because there was more than enough in his previous budgets, including the proliferation of tax expenditures (which are really spending programs but delivered through the tax system), various initiatives included in the Economic Action Plan, among others).

And so, from my own studies of online evidences then and now, I think I can legitimately wonder what other unjust actions may have gone on behind the scenes to hide what I can only interpret as misogynistic, self - serving, perpetrator - protecting behaviors under a guise of generosity, goodness, and light.

Supposedly good people whose presences or actions make life ugly for themselves or others are dubious specimens of goodness.

In developing a theism which conceives of the supreme instance of goodness in terms of perfect love, Hartshorne argues that this «religious ideal of love» is «not a mere emotional glow toward others,» but rather, love is «action from social awareness» (MVG 166).

I believe that we can illuminate the problem of evil not only by recognizing that there are other creative agents of action (a reinterpretation of the omnipotence of God) but also by recognizing that destructiveness is an essential part of creativity (a reinterpretation of the goodness of God).

What if most of the problems in our relationships with other people — the way we «see» and are «seen» by them, the way we interpret their lives, actions, and / or attitudes (and inversely the way others interpret our own), the way we treat and respond to others (as well as the ways they treat and respond to us)-- every single thing that each and every one of us do that damages our relationships with one another * stems * from an inherent misunderstanding of the nature and the goodness of the God in whose image we ourselves were created.

That is, freedom is the human capacity that unifies all our other capacities into an orderly whole, and directs our actions toward the pursuit of happiness and goodness understood in the noblest sense: the union of the human person with the absolute good, who is God.

At the end of the day you only have control over self and your actions, never the actions of other and you only have the power to see change in your life with the aid of God's Spirit which will cause you to produce good fruits like love, mercy, goodness kindness....