In singing under Shaw for more than 16 years — in New York, Cleveland, Puerto Rico and Princeton — I came to understand how the standards he sets for church musicians and
the spiritual values he brings to the concert podium produce the kind of music that so moved that young woman in Tennessee.
Not exact matches
Already there are many thousands of present - day parents who were
brought up with no religious faith and few standards, and they have had almost nothing, and sometimes less than nothing of
spiritual value, to pass on to their children.
This, however, is to impoverish attempts to
bring spiritual and moral
values to bear on both national and world society, because practical action needs to flow from the life of the spirit.
To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a
spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are
bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what
values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.
It would not only remove fear and
bring security — it would not only create new moral and
spiritual values
Whether you believe more in human
values or heartfelt
spiritual values, your comment does nothing that goes to the heart of the debate — that helping one another goes a lot farther than neglecting or paying for things that
bring pain and suffering to one another...
Only such a serious, sustained, communally supported life in an alternate
spiritual identity can provide the discriminating vision and the energy for
bringing about real
value change in higher education.
I certainly hold dear the
spiritual values I was
brought up to believe in: Compassion, charity, forgiveness.