Sentences with phrase «moral wisdom»

If scripture is taken as a whole, he argues, it offers a deeper moral wisdom about the use of violence.

Whether such political wisdom is also moral wisdom is, however, a question worth pondering.

There are times and circumstances when we must recognize exceptions to our inherited moral wisdom.

This formula is perhaps better suited to rhetorical use in public discourse than for rigorous intellectual analysis (where the battle to vindicate natural law should continue), but «the received moral wisdom of the American people» is far from being an expression of empty propaganda.

Lasch continues: «Like all students, they're looking for moral wisdom and intellectual guidance about the things that matter, which can be summarized in a single phrase as the conduct of life.

Using the phrase «the received moral wisdom of the American people» in political discourse would likely encourage sinful pride, which would be most unwise.

Our ambivalences in the areas of abortion, euthanasia and elective suicide call us to coordinate our scientific knowledge with moral wisdom.

I was a Christian, but now I'm open to practical moral wisdom from all sources, and seek the best in every book and every person, and use my own better judgment based on all the experiences and knowledge gained throughout life.

Human beings, including Americans, are endowed with a natural moral wisdom, and are also prone to acting against it.

This is part of our conventional moral wisdom.

Permit me to propose as a nonthreatening, not overtly religious formula for addressing questions of moral reason in the public square the term «the received moral wisdom of the American people.»

I prefer to hope that our moral anguish will prompt us to coordinate our scientific knowledge with moral wisdom, so that the present crisis can be truly a crisis in a biblical sense — a transformation which brings new faithfulness to God and a derivative humanism.

A friend with a taste for the moral wisdom of fairy tales likes to remind me, these days, of H. G. Wells's great fable The Time Machine.

And thus do they pervert and distort the Scriptures, making them the guide to slavish details of the daily life and an authority in things nonspiritual instead of appealing to the sacred writings as the repository of the moral wisdom, religious inspiration, and the spiritual teaching of the God - knowing men of other generations.»

Reality, you have false informations only and no true knowledge or moral wisdom.

The teaching of the Church and centuries of spiritual and moral wisdom are judged by whether they inhibit or enhance the therapeutic norm.

It is also in simpler form, for it contains only three main literary types: letter, historical record, and apocalypse, all interspersed with spiritual and moral wisdom.

For the first time in history, however unexpected or unwelcome, the world must contend with a claim to new revealed truth, a moral wisdom not of human intellectual origin, offering access by faith, to absolute proof, an objective basis for moral principle and a fully rational and justifiable belief!»

This book provides the rare commodity that is moral wisdom.

But I do wonder how much longer our society will stay trapped in a futile debate on sexuality limited to the moralists and the medicalists, neither of whom has much sense of the moral wisdom, compassionate understanding and sense of ambiguity available to us from the biblical tradition.

The fact that we do not finally submit our consciences to the dictates of any tradition or institution is the best possible reason for using our freedom to appropriate the moral wisdom of all traditions and institutions.

For instance, the advice columns written by two 75 - year - old twin sisters who have for decades been a source of moral wisdom for millions of Americans.

The Church would do a great service to our current culture if she could help those who care deeply about truth see that their devotion to reason need not condemn them to a crimped, scientistic approach devoid of moral wisdom and metaphysical meaning.

This means that the womanist theologian must give authoritative status to black folk wisdom (e.g., Brer Rabbit literature) and to black women's moral wisdom (expressed in their literature) when she responds to the question, «How ought the Christian to live in the world?»

Teknolust is rigorously stylized, gorgeous to look at, funny, and in the end, a vision of «replicants» who at first suggest some computer invention run amok; yet, in the last analysis, the simulations morph from futuristic icons into creatures of flesh, spirit, soul, and moral wisdom, laced with a sense of humor.

The NY Times and Al Gore will not like this, but it is better to fight it out on the basis of the alarmists» invalid science rather than the moral wisdom of their alleged attempt to «save the world» from imaginary global warming / climate change due to human - caused CO2 emissions.

Even though some judges may be men or women of moral wisdom, there is no particular correlation between having that wisdom and holding judicial office.