Sentences with phrase «moral earnestness»

What will be the impact of their burgeoning colleges marked by life - changing vitality and moral earnestness?

The New Testament's later development of an international and inter-racial faith was the logical conclusion of Jesus» way of thinking about God, and so notable was this contribution that he has been credited with being the first one in history to take monotheism with thoroughgoing moral earnestness.

And by «moral earnestness» I do not mean the sort of moralism which centers itself in obedience to codes or laws or sets of commandments, whether they be ten or of any other number.

With an entirely straight face, indeed with moral earnestness, Frank Rich continues in that idealistic vein for which Anna Quindlen was so admired by herself: «Perhaps these drawbacks are still troublesome today, but they are nothing next to such alternatives as unwanted babies or disease.

But, as you all know, these events have been characterized by a certain soberness and a moral earnestness that has left little room for some other important gestures of faith: I speak of joy and wonder.

Since our leaders did not have the sensitivity to feel the moral earnestness of literally millions of European and American people, it is legitimate to ask how sensitive they are to the moral issues themselves.

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(Isaiah 5:16) Then, in contrast with this view, having described the loose and cynical ways in which popular thought referred to «the Holy One of Israel,» (Isaiah 5:18 - 19) he went on to announce with vehement earnestness the real meanings of holiness in terms of personal morals and social righteousness.

The science is presented with breathtaking appeal; the moral concern is uttered with breathless earnestness.

It is a church which has lost the distinctive note and the earnestness of a Christian discipline of life and has become what every religious institution tends to become — the teacher of the prevailing code of morals and the pantheon of the social gods.

A humble herdsman of Tekoa, he appeared one day at the royal shrine of Bethel and, with a religious earnestness that moves us even yet as we read it, began to denounce the spiritual shallowness, the exploitation of the poor by the rich, the bribery, sexual indulgence, and general moral laxity which he saw all about him.

Speaking as a believer who has often pondered that and other dispiriting questions about why evangelical Christianity has been so readily co-opted by conservative politics, I'll confess that the heaviness of Schrader's moral inquiry and the earnestness of his provocations were right up my alley.

Our antihero adores mocking the moral clarity, earnestness and predictable stunts of his distant cousins.