Sentences with phrase «moral reproach»

Dr Piazza said: «Morally motivated vegetarians may serve as a source of implicit moral reproach for many omnivores, eliciting behaviors designed to defend against moral condemnation.»

Mary could not receive the «power of the Spirit»; Deborah could no longer cry, «Give ear, you princes» (nor could she sing of the «warriors in Israel unbinding their hair,» lest baldness carry moral reproach); and the report in Acts that «with these words, [Stephen] fell asleep» would need correction out of deference to those afflicted by either narcolepsy or insomnia.

In truth, if he could speak to us today as clearly as he did to earlier generations, it would not be in the amiable tones of someone familiar to us but in a distant, almost prophetic voice, full of ironic moral reproach.

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The man who alternately sins, and in his remorse makes high moral demands, lays himself open to the reproach that he has made things too easy for himself.

Weil's moral absolutism remains a reproach to Jews who believe they can appropriate Israel's ethnicity (and perhaps its ethics) but dispense with its holiness code, and to Christians who seek redemption in their own ethnic roots rather than through adoption into the people of God.