Sentences with phrase «life of virtue»

This gets us back to the previously described life of virtue being the happy life.
It can serve a vehicle for love, a part of what R.R. Reno productively calls «A fully orbed life of virtue» as we encounter the stranger on the road to Jericho or within the boundaries of our community, and it often transcends borders as it commits to working within their context.
While some were portrayed as saving their people, paragons of family goodness and repenting their sins for lives of virtue, others were portrayed as harlots and hussies, purveyors of sin, deadly temptresses and seductresses.
«The life of sin,» he writes, «is a fall from coherence to chaos»; by contrast, «the life of virtue [is] a climb from the many to the One.»
He defends, against the Neoplatonists, the Christian understanding of human nature as intrinsically open to sociability such that the life of virtue should be a social life.
It means leading a life of virtue and sacrifice, in charity and gratitude, for the glory of God.
It is precisely in this way that Thomas Aquinas envisioned the moral life: the life of sin is a fall from coherence to chaos, the life of virtue a climb from the many to the One.
A virtuous leader helps the ordinary people to live a life of virtue.
PAK: One sees in the magisterium of Leo XIII a careful working out of the necessary connections between metaphysics (what man is — a rational, social animal), ethics (the achievement of happiness through a life of virtue), politics (the ordering of the city, in its authority and in its laws, to the common good), and religion (God as the first beginning and last end of all reality, including society and regime).
The ironic thing, however, is that it was by studying the early Greek Philosophers, especially Aristotle, that I realized that maybe the concept of rewards really is a metaphor for the internal reward we reap when we live a life of virtue (their words) or sow to the Spirit (Paul's words).
However important the life of virtue may be, though, the more we attempt it the more we will realize its limits.
Brian's key to high frequency living is straightforward: practice a life of virtue and integrity.
Aristotle, on the other hand, believed that happiness was an action and not a feeling, achieved through a life of virtue and balance.
«Living our vocation to be protectors of God's handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience»
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