Sentences with phrase «highest moral calling»

CZR believes it is a lawyer's highest moral calling to stand up for injured people against the big insurance companies that routinely refuse to take responsibility and only seek to maximize their profits.

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.

Wanda Hendrix is a bit young for her role, but the screenwriters early on establish her marriage to her septuagenarian Count (played by Felix Aylmer) and use their relationship to heighten Power's increasing hunger for the waifish creature, and his maturing into a less wily, selfish fox because of true luv and a higher moral calling.

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I am a Christian but I call bs on those pompous, self - righteous so called Christians that claim any sort of moral or historic «high ground»

I recall taking a senior class in Catholic high school called something like Peace and Hunger, which was basically an indoctrination in the moral imperative of redistributing the world's wealth and 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.

However, the NY Magazine article highlights something very important — the people of God, who are called to hold to the highest standard of morals and ethics, now rank as the highest group percentage-wise of those who say that these things don't necessarily matter.

I would say that if war causes us to suppress our deepest religious, ethical and moral convictions, then we have indeed caved in to a «higher religion» called war.

But this high - mindedness, Wisse notes sadly, can become what she calls a kind of moral solipsism: «a reckoning that is preoccupied with its own performance to the exclusion of everyone else's.»

Observer, I choose not to support society's so - called morality when it deems moral things like the murder of babies in the womb, sodomy, drunkenness, getting high, public nudity, po.rnogr.aphy... Yeah, society sure has come a long way.

One area of overlap and potential conflict is what sociologists call the problem of legitimacy, which includes among other things the question whether existing political authority is moral and right or whether it violates higher religious duties.

EVERYONE at one time or another has posted junk (me predicting a City win and you castigating Per) as you call it, so let's not take the moral high ground as a right.

In her second paragraph, she writes that her «book is not another call to the moral high ground» — it is purely «about how to turn ideals into action».

To be a moral witness is perhaps the highest calling of journalism, and in this unforgettable, highly readable account of contemporary slavery, author Benjamin Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told — and heard.

It's insulting and demeaning to be called a liar and a thief by readers who don't know anything about the processes of publishing, copyright law or professional ebook production, and yet are certain of both their facts and their moral high ground.

In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground.

Calling me kid surely gives you the moral high ground and the pinnacle of reason.

Voyage of Life is the finest and most celebrated example of what Cole called a «higher style of landscape,» through which he aimed to illustrate moral messages with the beauty of nature.

It's time religious leaders take a stand against fossil fuels With the moral issues in mind, Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate, called upon all religious leaders to take a public stand against fossil fuels, whose high emissions of greenhouse gases are said to increase the rate of climate change.

My high - school philosophy teacher would call it a «false duality», because it says that climate change is either a moral challenge or an economic one, when in fact, it's both, and meeting the challenge one way doesn't preclude meeting it the other.

It calls itself the «Biggest Little City in the World,» a name left over from a different legal and moral era, when the economy rode high on gambling and out - of - state travelers seeking divorce.

Regression analyses of child and adult measures of child's emotion self - regulation and callous - unemotional traits, and a child measure of moral emotions, showed that poor emotion regulation, along with low levels of guilt and high levels of shame, predicted children's externalizing behaviors, while only low levels of guilt predicted a unique subset of child characteristics called callous - unemotional traits.

I climb up on my freshly acquired moral high ground and call it «ethical gossip».