Sentences with phrase «moral integrity even»

In other words, the legal opinion favoring freedom from obligation, if supported by probable opinion, may be followed with moral integrity even if the opinion favoring obligation is more probable.

Not exact matches

He showed that Catholic doctrine and moral teachings had a fullness, integrity and beauty that nothing could match, even while they posed a challenge in their implications for daily living.

According to the knowledge, competence, and prestige which they [the laity] possess, they have the right and even at times the duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church and to make their opinion known to the rest of the Christian faithful, without prejudice to the integrity of faith and morals, with reverence toward their pastors, and attentive to common advantage and the dignity of persons.

We must find how it is possible to hold to some ultimate integrity even when that integrity involves a radical humility about our own moral attainment.

An idle, aging king in the heady, evening air of a Jerusalem springtime; the beautiful Bathsheba and her incorruptible husband Uriah; the king's prompt, efficient, confident steps to cover the results of his lustful intoxication; Uriah's integrity as soldier and his unwitting and ultimately fatal frustration of David's self - protective scheme merely by the virtue of his extreme loyalty to his compatriots still in the field; David's unhesitating but premeditated resort to murder; the complicity of Joab, always intensely, blindly loyal to David; and continuing this picture of the king's total moral collapse in steps of progressive deterioration, David's calloused words of reassurance to Joab, «Do not let this matter trouble you...»; and at last the consummation of the whole sorry episode when Bathsheba is added to David's harem and another son added to his progeny.

These biographical notes on the life of David acknowledge and illustrate David's moral ambivalence and even duplicity, and yet at the same time present a man who, as the sons of men go, is superior not only in the qualities of winsomeness and shrewdness, but also in the solid virtues that issue from a dominant integrity.

I was actually just pointing out that even though one may have a degree and experience, it does not mean they have integrity and moral standing.

It is hard to believe that after 8 years, I can't meet even ONE who has any moral sense, manners or integrity.

This is a good opportunity to convey moral standards such as honesty, fairness, and integrity and is a missed opportunity in most schools, even those with strong character - education agendas.

But it also exemplifies the moral courage and intellectual integrity to trust the data, even when the implications were troubling.

However, were it not for Atticus's personal morals guiding him, he likely would not have fulfilled the professional duties given much importance in the Rules: his duty to act honourably and with integrity even when people criticized him; his duty to be honest and candid both with Tom and the public, rallying for the public and the jury to believe in Tom's innocence while ensuring that Tom's expectations of winning were not fueled; his duty of loyalty to his client by representing him zealously both inside and outside the courtroom.

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