Sentences with phrase «moral stature»

Open to alternative energy lobbyists handicapped in proportion to their moral stature.

He argued that the strategy of winning Southerners «motivated by anti-civil rights (or anti-Negro) sentiment... reflected shamefully on the party's moral stature».

The more closely those who are not poor identify with those who are, the easier it will be to secure their support for programs to help the poor, or persuade them that programs that help people regardless of how much they make have the same moral stature as programs directed to the poor.

No issue has proven more vexatious than race in the assessment of the moral stature of Western Civilization.

If Americans are not educated, industrious and sober; if our streets are violent and our sexuality pagan; if our family life is unstable and our personalities unsound — in short, if America has lost its moral stature and thus its national self - respect, then, for religious conservatives, it is the fault of those who prate of freedom and sow anarchy — not the least cause being liberal religionist loss of proper faith.

To the extent that his philosophy is expressed through a kind of preaching, the moral stature of the man can not be ignored.

He gained a moral stature that day and it has prevailed ever since.

Heidegger's moral stature also matters for other reasons.

Not exact matches

Once humanity is given the stature of moral creator, how can one continue to argue for God's moral clout without begging the question?

The book is an enjoyable read that once again underscores the moral and spiritual stature of John Paul II on the world stage.

The same St. Paul who admonishes us to grow into the stature of Christ insists again and again that we are «saved by faith» and not «by works»; which is to say that our final peace is not the moral peace of having become what Christ defines as our true nature but is the religious peace of knowing that a divine mercy accepts our loyalty to Christ despite our continued betrayal of him.

It surely detracts from man's spiritual stature as a free moral agent, to suggest that every misuse of his freedom is caused by something outside himself.

In the biblical perspective, progress is to be measured in terms of the quality of man's life, his moral and spiritual stature, his corporate existence in community.

It is in the struggle for economic justice that one can begin to grow to the fullness of one's moral and spiritual stature with freedom and dignity, created in the image of God to be creator of the good.

Connelly is a character of many motivations who uses his stature to protect and aid Bulger through a sense of loyalty to his friend and neighborhood regardless of the moral turpitude involved in his actions.

I can promise you that you will grow in moral and intellectual stature.