"High ideals" refers to a strong set of beliefs or values that are considered morally or ethically excellent. It implies aspiring to admirable principles or goals and striving for excellence in one's thoughts, actions, or intentions.
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Most of our respondents tended to enter the profession with
high ideals of really wanting to make a difference.
They paint a picture of a man who entered office
with high ideals but who was plagued by crisis after crisis — some unexpected and others self - inflicted.
Many people find it impossible to restrict themselves to one Scripture because they realize that all the sacred texts of mankind
contain high ideals and worthwhile teachings.
The candidate must have an acceptable personality, be of good moral character, and
possess high ideals regarding professional services and conduct.
More particularly, Christian realism about man teaches us that men need not only be inspired by
high ideals in their time of need but also to be freed from bondage to idols.
While Su shows that this evolution was driven by international power politics, not simply
by high ideals, the trajectory is unmistakable.
Note that this is inauthentic life no matter how
high the ideals which society or church may press upon us.
``... The only sticker I apply to book covers is the IndieReader Discovery Award, knowing that it represents and supports the
very highest ideals of the indie publishing community.»
Confucianism holds the value placed
on high ideals such as friendship which, Fr Kocik argues, Christianity raises to supernatural heights by charity (p39).
Given greater gender role egalitarianism, the emphasis on the nuclear family, and less family interdependence in the U.S. (Conger, 1981; Gere & Helwig, 2012), we predicted that American participants would
report higher ideal communal strength for spousal relationships than other relationships, and that the expectations for men and women would be relatively similar.
In contrast, given greater emphasis on the extended family, collectivism (Barbopoulos, Fisharah, Clark, & El - Khatib, 2002), and the responsibility for children to care for elderly parents in Egypt (Fadel - Girgis, 1983; Yount & Agree, 2004), we predicted that Egyptian participants would report
higher ideal communal strength for maternal relationships following marriage, and that women would be expected to provide greater caregiving within the family based on more traditional gender roles.
Whether or not there is a heaven, as reward, I would rather strive to a
truly higher ideal, than live down to a common «social norm» that degrades us to mere animal status, living for our own pleasure and telling us that our more base desires are good, natural and should not be considered something to be overcome.
Oftentimes this involves the unpleasant uncovering of an operative ideology; i.e., an articulated position which
espouses high ideals but is actually a rationalization primarily to maintain the vested interests of a particular individual or group.
If your creed is to place that bet, then your code becomes a bit tough to honor, since it is a very
high ideal without the comfort of mechanical rules that some churches seem to offer.
Believers can be sweet and kind and good and intelligent, but rarely do you find one that disagrees in one tiny way with the behaviors and decisions he a.s.s.igns to his own deity — really just an embodiment of his
own highest ideals.
In most human affairs, freedom to be self - governing is a
rather higher ideal than most of the ideals about which governance decisions would be made.25
The followers of the Enlightenment were not immune from
invoking high ideals to justify selfish interests.
Dr. Seshadri and colleagues with the Framingham Heart Study in Massachusetts observed that having
higher ideal cardiovascular health scores on an American Heart Association scale was associated with a lower risk of developing Alzheimer's dementia.
For a movie that pretends to be
about high ideals, that's a pretty cynical conclusion.
As Peter Howell reports on some of the most - talked about films at TIFF 2017, the pursuit of
high ideals rarely follows a straight path toward contentment and enlightenment — and maybe never gets there at all
A classic form of fantasy
advancing high ideals is found in four books by author - illustrator Flavia and her daughter...
Edward Mangano, the former Nassau County executive, entered office
with high ideals but was plagued...
For a church and a people who ascribe to such
high ideals in family life and to tolerate, even enable the rottenness, the wickedness described by Sister Carolyn is astonishing.
This union stands
on high ideals, and together we need to reach for what we know is possible — a better New York,» Kent said.
«I'm in harmony with
my highest ideals, my worship of great workmanship.»
For the first time, we have the technology to build a food system that aligns with
our highest ideals.
If you want to see true examples of how faith can inspire people to live by
the highest ideals, ignore the so - called «pastors» who are living it up.
If plural marriage is God's
highest ideal, then why are there approximately EQUAL numbers of men and women on the planet?
Niebuhr saw something good (America's
high ideals) going unintentionally awry, while Lemert, a Senior Fellow of Yale's Center for Comparative Research, sees only something bad (nationalism) getting steadily worse.
Learn to love one another, care for and lift one another up to
higher ideals.
In this tract Wesley seems to come to
his high ideal of «perfect love» in his reading of Scripture informed by a variety of the great spiritual teachers of the church who emphasized similar themes.
Christ gives us is
a higher ideal.
Rather, it will serve justice, by upholding
our highest ideals of offering refuge to genocide survivors and others among the world's most vulnerable.
«What greater expression of faith in the American experiment than this, what greater form of patriotism is there than the belief that America is not yet finished, that we are strong enough to be self - critical, that each successive generation can look upon our imperfections and decide that it is in our power to remake this nation to more closely align with
our highest ideals?»
Mahatma Ghandi, on the other hand, believed that the teachings of Christ in this Sermon held up
the highest ideal for how to live life.