Sentences with phrase «through virtue»

It may be difficult to see this for yourself, but through the virtue of being in a particular industry, you have created a professional network.

Whether through virtue, savvy, or just general badassedness, these women are not above doing what's necessary to make it through to the sequel — even if that means putting on Jason's dead mother's moth - eaten sweater, because that shit had to be gamey.

And he inherits a team that, through virtue of massive returning production, likely would have improved by quite a bit even if Strong had remained.

According to Islam, no individual has an advantage over another except through virtue and knowledge.

According to virtue ethics, the cultivation and formation of character through virtues such as temperance and fortitude is the essential aspect of the moral life.

Proactively build inclusive and egalitarian partnerships with all stakeholders, through the virtues of honesty of purpose, mutual trust and respect.

(acquired through virtues)

Not exact matches

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 16 through June 22, 2013, as National Small Business Week.

These costs can be grouped into three major categories: administrative costs for bookkeeping and informing participants of account balances and plan features; investment management costs for investing participants» savings; and marketing costs for media advertising of the plan's virtues.22 However, unknown to most retirement savers, 23 participants actually pay all or the vast majority of these costs24 through fees charged as a percentage of their account balance and paid out of their investment returns.

This time around, the proposal is expected to tilt toward approval almost entirely by virtue of Mr. Biglari's transparent campaign to undertake circular purchases of Biglari Holdings shares through a company - funded investment vehicle over which he exercises sole managerial and voting control.

By virtue of their size within the ETF industry, the firms have the ability (through economies of scale) to charge significantly lower fees in comparison to other companies.

The current German politics of imposing austerity measures on the rest of Europe stems from the tradition of what Adrian Pabst memorably termed «Kantian morality of context-less duties, Weberian statecraft void of virtue, and Bismarckian quasi-military management of citizens through centralised welfare.»

There is no reason to assume that judges possess sufficient knowledge and virtue to undertake a mission of moral evaluation through the episodic venues of cases and controversies.

Following the Stoics, he taught that virtue and vice are distinguishable through a natural law, that there is an eternality to nature and a moral constitution to the universe, and that a «mixed government» might be advisable.

I believe that man is, by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.

All virtue is established through love and humility by experience and time and grace.

One might expect that Benedict was working his way backward through the theological virtues, with the first encyclical on love, the second on hope, and a later on faith.

From the earliest weeks of life, when an infant is taught to control hunger in order to meet the sleeping needs of parents and to fit into a social pattern in which people do not eat during the night; through babyhood, where etiquette skills include learning conventional greetings such as morning kisses and waving bye - bye; to toddler training in such concepts as sharing toys with a guest, refraining from hitting, and expressing gratitude for presents, manners are used to establish a basis for other virtues.

It offers positive and negative role models for this virtue through its portraits of Socrates, Thrasymachus, and their friends, and in the action of the dialogue offers exemplary insight into how such virtue might be best acquired by an individual or a state.

In it, he explains the essential virtues that reflect true «faith» (iman) through related Qur» anic verses and Prophetic sayings.»

Through their serene transparency flow the waves of creative power, charged with natural virtue and with grace.

It would be easy for a campus ministry group to wink and nod toward their evangelical ancestors, pointing to a doctrinal statement that doesn't exactly say the right things but doesn't contradict them either, while buying political protection and cultural shelter through equivocation and virtue signaling.

The nobility and primacy of virtue — in other words, the realities at the foundation of a traditional way of life — are best learned through experience.

The same point appears in The Logic of Sense as follows: «disjunction posed as a synthesis exchanges its theological principle for a diabolic principle,» ensuring that «instead of certain number of predicates being excluded from a thing in virtue of the identity of its concept, each «thing» opens itself up to the infinity of predicates through which it passes, as it loses its center, that is, its identity as concept or as self» (LS 176 and 174).

There was need of that long, heroic journey through the mystical dark night, and of an exceptional development of the theological virtues of faith, hope and love, before matter could become «diaphanous» to Pere Teilhard's eyes and could reveal to him within itself not only the hallowing stream which flows from the Incarnation and the Eucharist but also the radiant presence of Christ.

-LSB-...] charity is placed as a key link: divine charity works through human action, as a theological virtue -LSB-...] Man is not considered only as the object of a process, but as the subject of this process.

Running through all the issues is the concept of paideia, education that cultivates the virtues.

The grace which we received in the bishop's laying on of hands and the constant renewal of grace in the sacraments of the Eucharist and Confession deify us: through that grace we grow in virtue, through that grace we shine as «other Christs» in this world and for all eternity.

But Bible thumpers will twist any atrocity, like toying with Abraham to get him to go through the motions of killing his own son, into a virtue.

Thereby the living power of the transcendent and omnipotent Judge is transposed in human experience into the dead body of Satan, as Milton's passage through the death of selfhood unveils the ground of an isolated selfhood as that chasm separating the creature from the Creator, thus making possible the reversal or dissolution of natural virtue and self - righteousness in the immediate and present actualization of the self - annihilation of God.

What I learned about the virtues, I learned through doing, and through gleaning what it was people admired in fellow parishioners.

No amount of growth in virtue, no regimen of self - improvement, no pattern of self - discipline will ever change the fact that I am a gentile and God chose to save the world through Abraham and his seed.

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

The people who hold the «just war» principle have much to do between wars, not only teaching the criteria but also nurturing the virtues commensurate with the tradition — justice, temperance, patience, courage — through preaching and teaching, liturgy and works of mercy.

Their prayerful dialogue of oratio was directed to a loving repose in contemplatio that would in turn adorn their lives with virtues through actio.

2Pe 1:3 - 11 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 1Co 9:11 - 12 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

This is especially true of Westerhoff, who is attracted to the theological ethics of Stanley Hauerwas, with its emphasis on how the Christian story functioning through Christian communities shapes the character and forms the virtue of the faithful.

But Hamilton, like any story worth telling, has themes that transcend its immediate background: Politics requires virtue, virtue grows from grace, grace flows through marriage.

The only thing they have to do with us is our obedience.I can no more heal cancer than one of my cats can, but when I yield my hands to God, healing virtue flows through them.

Our actions are intended to make us feel like we belong somewhere; we «fit in» among one group by virtue of the snickers and wagging tongues through which we exclude others.

Applying this to the doctrine of the Trinity, Jüngel suggests that the Father, Son, and Spirit enhance their previously existing relationship to one another through the decision to give of themselves to their rational creatures: the Father through the gift of his Son to us, the Son through freely allowing himself to be given as such a gift, the Spirit in virtue of his activity as mediator, not just between the Father and the Son, but now likewise between the Father and his adopted sons and daughters (GGW 446 - 53, 505 - 14).

Through work, people acquire virtues, both technical skills, or Aristotelian techne, and moral virtues — prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance.

Thus our version of Athena has characteristically been packaged under the name of Horatio Alger, whose heroes embody the virtues and blessings of success through careerism.

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.

A story sustains the precariousness and openness of the situation until it reaches its end, and does so by virtue of that power of imagination, or what I called memory that penetrates the future, to envisage a stretch of time as both sequentially related and also developing through human opportunity, intention, decision, and being acted upon.

By «God» I mean the pervasive personal presence, distinct from me and prior to me, who is the source and support of my existence; who through Scripture makes me realize that he has towards me the nature and name of love - holy, lordly, costly, fatherly, redeeming love; who addresses me, really though indirectly, in all that Scripture shows of his relationship to human beings in history, and especially in the recorded utterances of his Son, Jesus Christ; and who is daily drawing me towards a face - to - face encounter and consummated communion with him beyond this life, by virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (Rom.

This ideology which is present in mass media by virtue of their nature and social organization then shapes how they represent social reality through processes of selection and reinterpretation.

The broader purpose of Ashcraft's study is to demonstrate by example the virtue of taking political and religious ideology out of the realm of abstract philosophical discussion and considering it «in relation to a socially defined audience whose members seek to obtain certain practical advantages through social action.

Both patterns saw society resting on the deep inner commitment of its members, the former through conversion, the latter through republican virtue.

Christians, by virtue of becoming more like Christ over time, should have more deeds in the good column than the bad, but a certain number of good works are not required to get through those pearly gates.