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Although we can be surer of the fact of the greatness than of the qualities of character in which it consisted, we can go some distance in identifying those qualities, and that is the task we have set ourselves in the present chapter.
Taking place over familiar and commonly utilized Los Angeles terrain, this sun dappled rhinestone ultimately feels like another mean spirited, empty headed bauble, one whose ultimate moments of entertainment are dictated by the quality of the character in focus at any given moment.
Donald F. Ferrarone's screenplay doles out the qualities of its characters in the legwork.
«It's the characters,» he says, citing the quality of the characters in what might be called the Southern canon: To Kill a Mockingbird, Walker Percy's Lancelot, the stories of Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty and Truman Capote.

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Bruce Weinstein, The Ethics Guy, is a keynote speaker and corporate trainer in ethics, leadership, and character, and his latest book is The Good Ones: Ten Crucial Qualities of High - Character Echaracter, and his latest book is The Good Ones: Ten Crucial Qualities of High - Character ECharacter Employees.
«They fail because their qualities of character were not a match for the role in the organization.»
Many centuries ago, Aristotle analyzed success in political persuasion along three dimensions: logos (the quality of argument), pathos (the power of emotional appeal), and ethos (admiration or respect for the character of the speaker).
By way of contrast, the worth of a man for Jesus is not determined by his human quality or the character of his spiritual life, but simply by the decision the man makes in the here - and - now of his present life.
The patriarchs were chosen because of definite qualities in their character, not because God just happened to like them better than other people.
They yield a «More,» in William James's words, that is not the sum of the parts but a new creation, an emergent quality or character.
When Jesus says, as in the Fourth Gospel's interpretative words, «Love one another as I have loved you, greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends,» the very quality of the love which God has expressed through Jesus becomes the quality and character of suffering love poured out for another beyond the worthiness of that other.
The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.
Therefore, to the qualities already mentioned, I would add the following generic qualities: (a) an expansive quality associated with the feelings of subjectivity; (b) a retrogressive or inertial quality inherent in the conformal feature of simple causal feelings; and (c) a discordant quality present within the communal character of transmuted physical feelings.
The stuff undergoes change in respect to accidental qualities and relations; but it is numerically self - identical in its character of one actual entity throughout its accidental adventures.
Even as an atheist I can still say that Jesus taught a lot of wise things and was a compas.sionate character, but there is nothing of Jesus» admirable qualities in your view.
The stuff undergoes change in respect to accidental qualities and relations; but it is numerically self - identical in its character of one actual entity throughout its accidental adventures» (PR 78/120).
... In the perception of a contemporary stone, for example,... the immediate percept assumes the character of the quiet undifferentiated endurance of the material stone, perceived by means of its quality of color...
The realm of essence is the home of an eternal infinity of qualities and forms which the flux of physical existence (the realm of matter) may or may not actualize from time to time as the character of one of its phases (or which spirit may or may not conceive or imagine from time to time) but there is no dynamism in the realm of essence to determine which shall thus enter the concrete world (see RB 385 - 386).
As the poetic parallelism makes clear, the character of Yahweh's compassion is the hesed character — the steady, enduring strength of fidelity, devotion, and commitment which partakes of the quality of grace precisely because it is more than the convention of covenant can appropriately command, because it is greater than the relationship which first produced it, and because it is able, in breaking out of the relationship, to recreate the very relationship in transformed dimensions.
Gentility in a democracy has nothing to do with social status, but depends only on the considerate, patient, tender, and reasonable quality of character.
Today the word «virtue» is usually applied to good traits of character, qualities which dispose us to act rightly in various sorts of situation.
Thanks to them, the world is lifted up towards God... In this year consecrated to the Eucharist, reviving the figure of Dom Guéranger is an invitation for all the faithful to rediscover the roots of the liturgy and to give a new breath to their journey of prayer, taking care to place themselves always in the great tradition of the Church, in respect of the sacred character of the liturgy and of the norms which mark its depth and qualitIn this year consecrated to the Eucharist, reviving the figure of Dom Guéranger is an invitation for all the faithful to rediscover the roots of the liturgy and to give a new breath to their journey of prayer, taking care to place themselves always in the great tradition of the Church, in respect of the sacred character of the liturgy and of the norms which mark its depth and qualitin the great tradition of the Church, in respect of the sacred character of the liturgy and of the norms which mark its depth and qualitin respect of the sacred character of the liturgy and of the norms which mark its depth and quality.
Whitehead also makes it explicitly clear in this context that the joint adoption of the subjectivist bias and of the substance - quality categories is inconsistent: «Yet if the enjoyment of experience be the constitutive subjective fact, these categories have lost all claim to any fundamental character in metaphysics» (PR 241; cf. 243).
It depends on how Ivan is defining «local community» and how he envisions it being proposed as the «arrangement for us today,» but against his basic note of resignation I join Mr. T. (Tocqueville) and the A-Team (Aristotelians) in insisting upon the greater naturalness and liberty - fostering character of township / polis life, and thus upon our unavoidable duty to cultivate whatever qualities and institutional features of that life that we can in our circumstances.
The principal points Paul made in that address are (1) to recall to their minds the character and quality of his ministry to them; (2) to remind them of the trouble the Jews gave him and the anxiety and suffering he underwent in their behalf; (3) to state that he preached repentance and faith in Jesus Christ as the essence of the gospel; (4) to testify that he went now to Jerusalem not knowing what would happen to him there except that he knew by the Holy Spirit that afflictions awaited him; (5) to assure them that nothing concerned him, not even the loss of life itself, so long as he could testify to the grace of God in Jesus Christ; (6) to say that he had no regrets about his ministry to the people in Ephesus, for he was clean of the blood of all the people there, for he preached the full gospel to all of them; and (7) to admonish them to be diligent in their oversight of the Ephesian church and to feed the church of God there, which Christ purchased with his own blood.
How to be the kind of person who can stand up to life, face its difficult challenges and hardships, and carry off a victory in quality of character and useful living — that central problem confronts us all.
For the present, however, the point is that the quality of the Spirit, and hence our criterion for knowing whether any given spirit is indeed to be linked with the Spirit of God, is for Christians the congruity which that spirit does, or does not, possess with what we have learned of God, God's character and purpose and manner of operation, through Jesus Christ in his revelation of the divine nature and agency in the world.
One saw the situation in which they were fated to act, one observed the quality and character of their acts, and one watched as the interaction of the situation and act moved to its inevitable end.
Hence the development of these qualities in the American national character.
With the character of that passage in Romans in your memory, consider this: that there is here exhibited a quality of the mind in its working which is not permeable to the merely analytical intelligence.
What Paul does is to enlarge to the scale of cosmic action a quality of character of which he was vividly aware in the remembered Jesus.
So I will simply remark on several qualities of the created (in Tolkien's terms, «subcreated») world in which fantasy characters live and move and have their being.
On the one hand, he recognized the good in the traditional sense — that there are certain qualities of character that are worth having for their own sake, and goods that are self - evident in the sense that no argument or further justification is necessary for them.
«Jesus says judge the spirit by the spirit» This president has displayed a Jesus like quality and character in himself that is missing from a lot of self proclaimed christian and so called christian leaders to date.
There are other professions in which the external educational requirements are higher, but there is no profession in which the combination of training plus the qualities of character essential to leadership is so often high.
Even so, there are some basic outlines that circumscribe academic communities: their face - to - face quality, their common pursuit of knowledge and understanding, and their integral character, the sense in which the quality of the individual's thought and the quality of the communities» thinking are mutually dependent upon one another.
Divine judgment, historical judgment, consistent, on the one hand, in its punitive quality with the concept of God - as - Creator - Judge but, on the other hand, transcended in the main by the concept of God - as - Redeemer into judgment not merely punitive but ultimately itself redemptive in character and purpose.
It has to do with a quality, discernible in that human character, which confronts us with a claim to our worship: in response to which it is not absurd, as it would be in the case of other men, to exclaim «My Lord and my God».
It is persuasive in the sense that it has the character of ideality and of final causation in contrast to the coercive quality of efficient causation.
7 In discussing an earlier version of this paper, Hall responded that while there might be some aesthetic quality associated with technology, the «difference of degree» between this and the aesthetic character of other modes of human activity is so great as to constitute a «difference in kind.&raquIn discussing an earlier version of this paper, Hall responded that while there might be some aesthetic quality associated with technology, the «difference of degree» between this and the aesthetic character of other modes of human activity is so great as to constitute a «difference in kind.&raquin kind.»
From my perspective, I may say that Whitehead has described God's operations at the level of creativity - characterization, at the level where God helps shape the character of the world in very specific ways, including its moral, aesthetic, natural, and cultural qualities.
In the sixth century before Christ, he understood with astonishing clarity the inward origins of public character and traced the good life back, behind taboo and custom, legality and form, to personal quality of spirit.
and the conditions of its enjoyment lay in a quality of character which had nothing to do with special race or nation — «Whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.»
Through what may appear as loss of its scientific character, contextual theology gains in its evangelical quality.
Whatever the relationship between chapters 1 and 3, and whatever the interpretation of Hosea's personality, the prophet was in marriage covenant with an unfaithful woman; and in his own anguish and love for his wife, he believed Yahweh had revealed the nature of the relationship between Yahweh and unfaithful Israel, the specific character of the divine compassion, and the precise quality of Israel's violation of covenant.
However, some tact in your disagreement would speak volumes of quality character.
The point of the «existence is not a property» doctrine is to deny the suggestion that the existence of a conceived entity can increase or decrease the conceived entity in character, quality, value, or perfection.
But in Whitehead's view Bradley still remains a prisoner of the substance - quality dichotomy: for feeling itself now takes on the mysterious character of a substance, about which all that can be known is its qualities.
They notice that it is permeated by a spirit of deep reverence or piety, that it aims to transform the quality and character of experience in a direction that appears saintly, that it manifests itself in such institutions as temples and monasteries in which there are ritual observances, and so forth.
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