Sentences with phrase «practicing of the virtues of»

Not exact matches

I recently read an opinion piece by Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini in which he extolls the virtues of greeting the sun just as it's rising each morning: «Every day I get up at 5:30 for my own yoga and meditation practice because I know I'm going to head into a chaotic world where I will be challenged.»

Michael Kierkegaard may have been brooding and domineering, but that doesn't» or doesn't have to» explain why he taught his children to practice the virtues of temperance and chastity.

As Palladius said in the Lausiac History: «I must commemorate the courageous women to whom God granted struggles equal to those of men so that no one could plead as an excuse that women are too weak to practice virtue successfully.

In my least sanguine moments, I think that the primary purpose of worship is to force us to be patient with one another, to practice the Christian virtues among our fellow believers.

We affirm the joy that comes from practicing the timeless virtues that form the character of Christ within us» discipline, self - sacrifice, courage, humility, patience, charity, truthfulness, and personal integrity.

And, citing the book of Sirach (3:3 - 7, 14 - 17), he added: «The word of God presents the family as the first school of wisdom, a school which trains its members in the practice of those virtues which make for authentic happiness and lasting fulfilment.»

By contrast, those responsible for ruling, the «philosopher kings,» were to be «cultured» in a way that formed in them the «philosophical virtue» that was grounded in knowledge of the Good itself and not, as were the guardians» virtues, simply trained into them by custom and practice.

What else are we to conclude when a man without any biblical training or calling from the Spirit is considered more qualified to preach the gospel by virtue of being a man than a woman with extensive training, years of practice, remarkable giftedness, and a profound sense of calling?

On the most profound level, however, the framers recognized that ordered liberty depends mightily upon certain habits, virtues and practices — that is, upon a moral culture of a highly developed type.

It is sustained by the virtues inculcated through the preaching and teaching and practices of discipleship that characterize the life of the Christian community.

Without broad practice of the virtues appropriate to a free polity, the novus ordo, the new order, could not possibly survive.

I am not complaining about this merging of values — it is right to note that Scripture often presents us with networks of virtues and mutually reinforcing practices.

The cultivation of Christian practices and ways of thinking is a virtue of Rod Dreher's Benedict Option, if only because it provides a solid anchor that enables believers to engage a culture that holds us, whether Chinese Indonesian or American Christians, in such contempt.

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.

The philosophical foundation of Solzhenitsyn s Christianity is the plebian's mythopoetic conception of religion as the practice of virtue (as opposed to Sartre's modernist idea of it as a kind of mystified ideology).

The priest, however, must exercise other functions besides administering the sacraments and institutional means can not empower him to fulfill these duties; hence he needs to practice spiritual discipline, cultivating all the Christian virtues; he also needs to study, for «how can he teach unless he himself possess knowledge» and have gained a «full grasp of the Catholic teaching on faith and morals?»

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.

These local norms and beliefs would afford a different experience of liberty, one about which liberalism has been silent, one that stresses self - governance and self - limitation achieved primarily through the cultivation of practices and virtues.

This kind of liberty is a condition of self - governance of both city and soul, drawing closely together the individual cultivation and practice of virtue and the shared activities of self - legislation.

Moore showed that the development of the moral and spiritual virtues depended on simple ascetical practices including prayer and penance.

We need to be reminded that it was once taken for granted that authentic education was built upon the teaching and practice of the human and theological virtues, that education, as St Thomas Aquinas put it, is «the progression of the child to the condition of properly human excellence, ie to the state of virtue».

It is a sad paradox that in our society, with its almost unprecedented need for mutual accommodation and the practice of civic virtues, we should be so hesitant about developing the qualities in our children that they will most need if our society is to endure.

So, for instance, if it is not clear to the readers of my work that my writing is done by an Episcopalian Christian, I will have failed to practice this virtue — which, of course, includes my making clear at which points the materials I study or engage seem to me false, noxious, or incomplete; just as it includes my making clear when and in what ways it seems to me that the materials I engage are true, have taught me something I didn't know before, or may be of use to me and my community in its search to apprehend and incarnate the gospel.

Not only that, we still practice the virtue of charity as particular persons in big numbers and often on a grand scale.

Citing examples of Christian mothers who were instrumental in the abolition of slavery and the passage of laws against child labor, she makes a strong case that virtues such as compassion and creativity that are «refined in the practice of motherhood can and should be used in other arenas to bring God's love, peace, mercy and justice to the world.»

We as Christians should teach ourselves the virtues of charitable love and practice it so the world will follow.

Aristotle provided MacIntyre with an account of why our actions require a conception of an end as well as the social and political conditions necessary to sustain a life formed by the virtues constitutive of that end that is simply lacking in modern moral practice and theory.

I admire Muslim women and all women who practice the virtue of modesty, whether they choose to cover their hair or not.

And if Tocqueville is right that «the principle of association is the first law of democracy,» then social justice is the first virtue of democracy, for it is the habit of putting the principle of association into daily practice.

In Jesus» teaching, the last who shall be first are people who, by virtue of life circumstance, have very little social or spiritual status according to traditional religious practice — women, children, and eunuchs.

Statements of one period are «felt as fact» in virtue of their congruity with the spirit, practice, and basic assumptions of a time; they are not «felt as fact» by another period because, in the unstoppable running of water over the dam, the spirit, practice, and basic assumption of a time became altered.

A second, more recent development was the decision by most Protestant denominations practicing infant baptism to admit children to the Lord's Table by virtue of their baptism.

First, it is engaged directly in the practices constitutive of theological education — the transmittal of knowledge, the development of the capacities required for critical inquiry, the formation of skills for ministry, and the nurturing of the virtues of honesty and integrity that are essential to serious academic work.

So in each of his acts he describes a virtue that believers may practice whether the sun is falling out of the sky or not.

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.

Peter encourages us to practice the qualities of virtue, knowledge, self - control, steadfastness, godliness, brotherly affection, and love (vv.

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.

Father Claude Chauchetiere, who, along with fellow Jesuit Pierre Cholenec, would chronicle Kateri's story for future generations, spoke of her spirituality with wonder: «Not only did Kateri practice her faith in such a manner that her confessor declared she never once relaxed her original fervor, but her extraordinary virtue was remarked by everyone.»

They developed a full program of twelve virtues to be practiced by all those dwelling in the Spirit.

We can rebut Reagan's assumption that religious practice automatically guarantees moral virtue and justifies favoring the ethical views of conservative over liberal Christians, Jews or agnostics on such specific issues as school prayer.

If Machiavelli seems a decent guide to Christian politics, it is only because Americans are uniquely tempted by the liberal civil religion he touted — a backward, Hobbesian monster of a thing, wherein civic virtue shapes Christian practice instead of vice versa, trading eternal things for temporal ones.

Science as it is practiced has both virtues and vices, successes and failures, and its practitioners work from a variety of metaphysical bases.

Christians should care about what our leaders desire: Governance is pedagogical, after all, and the expressive powers of law shape us in virtue and practice.

That pattern or movement in the stories about Jesus, that structure, functions something like a «depth grammar» in all enactments of the practice of the public worship of God in Jesus» name, by virtue of which all its culturally and theologically diverse instances bear family resemblances to one another.

These people — they are the prudent ones — practice the virtues of moderation and temperance.

The answer was an unqualified «yes,» sweeping aside all the Old Testament passages which indicate that God is the one who avenges the misery of the poor and the suffering of the oppressed; sweeping aside also the New Testament passages which counsel the unfortunate to practice the virtue of patience and exhort servants to obey their masters even if the master is unjust.

In the early Christian exercises aiming to instill virtues such as peace of mind and absence of the passions, and in the tradition of contemplative monasticism as developed by such fourth «century Church fathers as Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory Nazianzen, Hadot detects a strong whiff of Greek philosophical practice.

Renewing a shared faith in the eucharistic presence of Christ requires the leadership's actual collaboration and genuine communion with all baptized Catholics, including those who feel excluded from equal participation in the life of the church by virtue of their exclusion from priesthood, their racial or ethnic background, or their incomplete formation in the practices and ethical norms of the tradition.

Although the individual may for a time seem to outwardly decline in their practices of virtue, they in reality become more virtuous, as they are being virtuous less for the spiritual rewards (ecstasies in the cases of the first night) obtained and more out of a true love for God.