Sentences with phrase «moral person by»

Is he considered a more moral person by complying with the request, or by refusing it?

Jesus sometimes offended highly moral people by befriending tax collectors.

Not exact matches

While you were probably right from a moral perspective (judging people by their appearance remains a crappy thing to do), apparently from a scientific one, you were pretty much dead wrong.

Not everyone agrees on what is noble, for example, and there have been atrocious acts of history committed by people who sincerely believed they were acting on a moral ideal.

«Those aged over 70 are viewed by people as more friendly, more competent and as having higher moral standards than those in their 20s,» the researchers noted.

At a moment when the Republicans are talking about entitlement reform, and Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is proposing to triple the rents of some of the poorest people in the country, the sight of big banks reporting surges in profits that were fuelled by tax cuts raises alarming moral questions.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

That's the real truth, and that's why people are fascinated by other ways which have remained less disturbed by the Gospel that really grips this society, which is that there should be no constraint on individual consumer choice in goods or morals.

In short, I consider this «reality» show as must see TV which attempts to convince non-Muslim viewers of Muslim self - importance, moral superiority, and feigned persecution with every condescending word uttered by these hypocritical, duplicitous people.

The stories of players in these accounts challenge our moral imagination by forcing us to recognize that the uniformed men on the field are not just Football Players, but Persons - brothers, fathers, husbands, and sons like me.

If you want to keep people focused on your religion as a unifying set of moral and practical codes to live by, make attendence to religious services and taking the day off work to attend mandatory or else it is a sin punishable by death.

Academic moral theory, like preaching, «stiffens the backbone» of one's coreligionists (or co «ideologues) by «convincing people who think like you that they are not alone in their beliefs [and] have the backing of someone who is confident, competent, articulate, and thoughtful.»

«Not many people,» Elliott notes, «feel a moral duty to take part in these studies»» though, of course, we are more than happy to reap the benefits brought by new drugs.

John Beyond the Golden Rule, which is something that was already pretty universal and predates the Bible by hundreds of years, what moral advice the Bible gives is hopelessly outdated, and it's message of a preferred people, be they Jew or Christian, is really rather elitist.

There are many songs written and played by people against whom I have the most fundamental and passionate disagreements in the moral and intellectual realms (which are the most important ones), yet hearing their songs can evoke ecstatic feelings that are very much like feelings of worship and longing for God.

God makes good stuff... Even good moral people who don't know he was made by him.

He refused to believe that the false ideas of the human person and human history embodied in communism could divide Europe indefinitely; and by igniting a revolution of conscience behind the iron curtain, the man the last president of the Soviet Union called «the world's greatest moral authority» became an agent of liberation for his Slavic brethren and the precursor of new possibilities in international affairs.

History provides the moral judgment, and we do not have to be theologians engaged in scriptural debates to point people to the judgment rendered by history... Elaine

These people can have their morals but in Actual Truth, nobody is being harmed by viewing p0rn.

Trying to be someone else and trying to live up to expectations put on you by a Pastor or church moral police is what leads people to sneak to do things and feel guilty about doing the things that make them happy.

I'm a Christian and I KNOW Christ exists, but not in this man - conttived and contorted punishing unforgiving version conceived and dictated by those with morals much more questionable than the average decent person on the street or even myself.

By «classical spirituality,» Wells is referring to the devotional habits and moral demeanor of the Protestant Reformers which had been «passed on in deepened pastoral form by the Puritans» and now have extended «down through history and into the present through people like Martyn Lloyd - Jones, J. I. Packer, John Stott, Francis Schaeffer, and Carl Henry.&raquBy «classical spirituality,» Wells is referring to the devotional habits and moral demeanor of the Protestant Reformers which had been «passed on in deepened pastoral form by the Puritans» and now have extended «down through history and into the present through people like Martyn Lloyd - Jones, J. I. Packer, John Stott, Francis Schaeffer, and Carl Henry.&raquby the Puritans» and now have extended «down through history and into the present through people like Martyn Lloyd - Jones, J. I. Packer, John Stott, Francis Schaeffer, and Carl Henry.»

She is surrounded daily with supporters who bolster her views, people who understand themselves as moral crusaders, pursuing their aims with all the zeal inspired by political ideology or — perhaps more aptly — ersatz religion.

That biblical vision helped form the bedrock convictions of the American idea: that government stood under the judgment of divine and natural law; that government was limited in its reach into human affairs, especially the realm of conscience; that national greatness was measured by fidelity to the moral truths taught by revelation and inscribed in the world by a demanding yet merciful God; that only a virtuous people could be truly free.

But, as John Paul, Havel, and others said at the beginning of the revolution and say now, it was above all a matter of people discerning the possibility and moral imperative of «living in truth» and «calling good and evil by name.»

It is not clear to me how much of Jody Bottum's moral analysis in» Blood for Blood» and» They Did It» is meant to apply only to sad case of the person just executed and how much is meant to apply to all uses of the death penalty by modern states.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

An isolated tribe in the Amazon jungle has just been contacted by the outside world for the first time, do you believe as tf does that his god has written his morals on the hearts of these people?

Penn Jillette makes this observation about god, claiming to be moral, doing things that would be considered highly immoral if done by people.

There are only people raised by a different but equal moral code.

My racist relatives in Mississippi used to talk about the moral decay brought by integrating black people into white society... of cours, e they didn't complain about the cross burnings or lynchings being moral decay..

A politics of reason gave way to a politics of emotion and flirted with the politics of irrationality; the claims of moral reason were displaced by moralism; the notion that all men and women were called to live lives of responsibility was displaced by the notion that some people were, by reason of birth, victims; patriotism became suspect, to be replaced by a vague internationalism; democratic persuasion was displaced by judicial activism.

Yes, those who like to say that there are moral absolutes inherent in people, places, or things are clearly shown to be wrong by the simple existence of an unstable and diverse and contradictory bunch of «holy books».

My own father, a person of the highest moral character and integrity was accused of being shady by my abuser because he tried to find us alternative housing when my abuser (although court ordered to pay the mortgage) willfully and vindictively drove it into foreclosure and the kids and I homeless, while he went off and bought he and his spiritual wife a new home.

Unexpectedly and uncomfortably accepting outcasts by breaking social mores, he created a sense of belonging for them, which frequently conflicted with the moral sensibilities of religious people of his day, angering them.

This moral discipline informs Fredriksen's effort to present her subjects as persons who loved, aspired, and suffered, rather than as mere ciphers moved by abstract historical or cultural forces.

A person may prolong his life by eating right, good exercise, good habits, moral attributes that strengthen the mind, abstaining from harmful habits, resisting desires to go to clubs, parties, socials, etc, that includes mischief making mankind, etal.

It is against this background of public moral struggle that the people of Israel prepare to vote on July 23 for their next government, in an election that pits the conservative Likud Party of Menachem Begin and current Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir against the Labor Party headed by two - time loser Shimon Peres.

@Dunk... yeah right I'll get it out, when my money doesn't get used by people like you... You are pretty lame to think that you would have no morals if you didn't read what you should do.

Roger Harding, head of public attitudes at the National Centre for Social Research who produced a report into the findings, was quoted by The Times as saying: «It suggests people are taking their moral views from elsewhere.»

Prominent academics and civil liberties organizations have raised the prospect of stripping churches of their tax exemptions and pursuing litigation to require private companies and civic groups to be led and staffed by people who pledge allegiance to the moral creed of the left.

If the church focused on teaching people to be moral by upholding bible principles instead of their own traditions, they wouldn't have to be concerned.

If a person wishes to pursue a dubious moral course, the easy way is to disguise his conduct as the action of a free man, uninhibited by old rules, breaking loose and acting on his own.

It may not seek to compel people to live by its moral vision, but it does seek to persuade them to do so.

In today's divided moral landscape, with thoughtful, well - meaning people on both sides of every issue, there's no better way to show that you're a serious thinker than by acknowledging that every controversial issue is «complex.»

I think a big thing about being spiritual is believing in something higher than yourself without being tied to some arbitrarily specific moral code created by people (not God (s)-RRB- in the context of their times that often has horrifyingly backwards and incredibly immoral rules.

It is important as far as possible to remove temptation by changes in the situation that surrounds us, to develop strength of will and clearness of moral judgment through any help other people can give us, to utilize whatever inner resources we have for doing right.

When a patient's problems are related to religious or moral conflict, the staff clergyman would be the most likely person for the patient to see because of his authority in this area and because he may be perceived by the patient to be the most appropriate person to deal with these problems.

Cynicism and moral anarchism, whether expressed in crimes against persons and property by the dispossessed or in self - interested manipulation by the better - off, are, if I read modern history right, more likely a prelude to authoritarianism if not fascism.

What's more, by writing persuasive articles about people's moral obligation to give away money, Singer has caused tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars to be donated to famine relief organizations.