Sentences with phrase «moral convictions about»

Only moral convictions about right and wrong ensconced in manners and customary restraints can ensure a healthy culture of relations between the sexes.

They were entirely dependent upon both and were bound together by shared moral convictions about the natural order.

I am so glad there are still young men who have moral convictions about how to treat young ladies.

DeChristopher will face a trial this month on felony counts of disrupting a government auction, and he could receive up to 10 years in prison and $ 750,000 in fines for actions that stemmed from his deep moral conviction about the urgency of our climate crisis.

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In The Green Knight, the good Peter Mir confronts the murderer, and seems to have no resources with which to bring about moral conviction in the man; their several conversations end in frustration and no closure is reached.

The Revolution of 1989 in east and central Europe» a world - historical series of events ignited by moral passion, informed by moral conviction, sustained by deft and morally sophisticated politics, and supported by a resolute demonstration that the Soviet Union could not compete with the United States in a serious arms race» raised further questions about classic foreign - policy realism and its narrow focus on «hard power» as the analytic prism for understanding both the dynamics of world politics and the exigencies of American foreign policy.

Surely even the unchurched would respond positively to expression of conviction on moral principles, even if they disagreed about the obvious applications: e.g., idolatry and Watergate.

My concern was that Wilson could not establish the moral ground of his position; that he ran the risk then of fostering confusion among his own allies about the ground of their opposition to abortion; and that the allies who made themselves suggestible to his arguments were risking a serious erosion in the conviction that they summoned to this issue.

In the world of Charlie Hebdo, sadly, all religious convictions (indeed all serious convictions about moral truth) are, by definition, fanaticism — and thus susceptible to the mockery of the «enlightened.»

Do our moral convictions connect in a reasonable way with what we think about human origins?

Everything else that we say about him, as creator, redeemer, companion, the maker of moral demands, the righteous and just one, must be referred back to that abiding Christian conviction.

This is not a gesture of humility about my thought or writing, but rather denotes my increasing theological, epistemological and moral conviction that theology in service to the church can not come only from an individual mind.

Those who had moral reservations about research on the youngest of humans but were persuaded of the need to pursue treatments can now support this promising research without compromising their pro-life conviction.

This means «equipping the saints» to be twenty - first - century apologists who can (pace Pope Francis) offer compassionate aid to the walking wounded of postmodern society, explain the truths about the human person that the Church believes are essential to a truly human political community, and, if necessary, hold fast to Gospel - based Christian moral convictions even if that means professional or economic distress.

Perhaps this is because Collins is less than clear in his publicly stated convictions about the metaphysics and moral value of human life.

It's a moral conflict expertly conveyed by Ejiofor, who, whether delivering stern lessons to his police officer student and friend Joe (Max Martini) or dealing with a host of shady businessmen (including Mamet regulars Rickey Jay and Joe Mantegna), smartly expresses his character's staunch conviction with hints of sorrow born from the recognition that devotion to his «code of the warrior» and its rituals inevitably means pain for himself and those he cares about.