Sentences with phrase «practice of virtue learned»

The ancient claim that man is by nature a political animal and must in and through the exercise and practice of virtue learned in communities achieve a form of local and communal self - limitation — a condition properly understood as liberty — can not be denied forever without cost.

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We have to learn how to be friends... intimacy with God is developed through intentional spiritual practices and habits... Such habits form us into people of virtue capable of living as the friends of God we are created to be,» Makant says.

Indeed, whether we look to the teachers of ancient Israel or to the Platonic academy or to Augustine at Cassiciacum or to the medieval university or to Pico's disputatious Florence or to the small colleges of early nineteenth - century America, we find learning flourishing in communities formed by the conscious practice of spiritual virtues.

For it is one thing to suggest that the life of learning will always be in some sense dependent upon the exercise of spiritual virtues in however attenuated a form, quite another to imagine that the universities will turn to the practice of those spiritual disciplines, such as prayer, that give such virtues meaning and strength.

Humility, faith, and self - denial: these practices neither exhaust the list of spiritual virtues that are indispensable to learning nor do they represent a list of distinctively Christian virtues.

The finished work will give the appearance of an orchid, a common motif found in Asian ink paintings, often done as practice in learning how to control brushstrokes, but also for the discipline of caring for the fragile Asian flower that serves as the artist's model, a task that demands patience and knowledge meant to measure the virtue and status of the revered flower's caretaker.