Sentences with phrase «moral example»

Actually read the bible and see how contradictory it is and what a horrible moral example it sets.

The church facilities will be well used; the minister, as something of a social events coordinator and pop psychologist, may continue to draw a fair crowd on Sunday as he or she, almost at random, punctuates the sermon with references to Jesus as moral example.

Not all Christology fits the contours of our lives, not all Christology can be consumed without remainder in moral examples and ethical preachments.

Although she sometimes skips out on paying bills, she remains determined to set a positive moral example for her children.

It was an easier choice because their own father was an inspiring moral example, not a moral degenerate like Hermann Goering.

* 48:51 J.D. Greear / Trevin Wax conversation on kids» curriculum, Old Testament moral examples, and worship

«Kids need to have loving parents who are going to set a good moral example.»

The Prime I know would never kill in cold blood, but then the Autobots are now an analogy for our brave and noble troops, who often are forced to murder, but Prime chooses this, so even as an example to the military, remembering this is a kids movie and not a rally cry, is still a rather disturbing moral example to set.

Through it all, Gandhi maintains a certain detachment; he is convinced he is right, convinced that violence is not an answer, convinced that sheer moral example can free his nation as it did.

I, too, have known many progressive Christians who know Jesus as a guru through his teaching and moral example, but not with the same intimacy as one knows a Divine Parent or Spouse.

Therefore Joseph's flight from Potiphar's wife is more than a moral example, it is Joseph's first acknowledgement that he sees God at work in the world of cause and effect.

Robert Bellah and colleagues, in their book, Habits of the Heart, describe this reigning value of American life: «Separated from family, religion, and calling as sources of authority, duty, and moral example, the self first seeks to work out its own form of action by autonomously pursuing happiness and satisfying its wants.»

To be with her husband in that manner of non-attire is not befitting of a moral example, she is not just a commoner but common as well, she and many others have bought the royal family into disrepute.

If reconciliation is indeed the basic Christian experience, we would be justified in giving greater attention to the latter models (liberator and moral example) than the former (penal substitute and sacrificial victim).10

Jesus serves not as the savior who redeems corporate humanity from sin, therefore, but as a moral example to guide solitary and heroic individuals — having himself trod the same lonely path of self - determination.

She is a moral example to Toppo, who tracks her to an open - house event, where she makes the case for games to parents.

[O] pportunities for young people to serve their communities can play a major role in restoring hope and moral example to our nation...

Does he provide a moral example of how the rest of us should live?

It is ESR's hope the EEOC will lead by moral example and not just by rule making and lawsuits.

As part of the decion - making process, the court will consider the moral example given by a parent to his or her child, the influence that parent's behaviour may have on the child's development and the manner in which the parent's conduct is likely to affect the child's welfare.