Sentences with phrase «virtue of charity»

(An issue that I'll pass over for now is that the anti-American team often writes as if American Protestants weren't really Christians who practice the virtue of charity, of loving one another out of love of God.)

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

In his sixth letter, Screwtape advises his nephew Wormwood on how to handle the virtue of charity growing up within the soul of the patient he is trying to guide toward damnation:

«Since nothing is more esteemed by God than the virtue of charity, nothing is more desired by the Devil than its extinction.

With their powerful moral undercurrents, minimalist acting and ascetic style, Bresson's films (Mouchette would make an excellent companion piece to The Kid with a Bike) weren't concerned so much with stories and characters as with the ideas they helped to illuminate — namely the continual war between man's baser and higher instincts, between the evils of mistrust and crime, and the virtues of charity, compassion and love.

Not exact matches

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

The crown of the caregiving virtues is charity, which has to be distinguished from latently misanthropic pity.

At 2 pm he would start his work, meditating on the virtues of faith, hope and charity.

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.

It means leading a life of virtue and sacrifice, in charity and gratitude, for the glory of God.

He claimed Christians should be extreme when it comes to «charity, of virtue, of grace, of unswerving adherence to goodness and truth, to the high goal of holiness in which lies our ultimate happiness».

-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.

In this way charity, the mother of virtues, is extinguished.

He argues that they are an important school of virtue, in which the particular love for our friends enables us to learn charity for all.

As a theological virtue, charity requires the grace of God.

The following centuries of monastic experimentation gave them deep insights into humility, and into the great theological virtues of faith, hope and charity, They understood the Gospels to be saying that we are meant for great things — meant to live in imitation of Christ himself.

That collective emphasis, that understanding of man as fundamentally social, was derived from the classical conception of the polis as responsible for the education and the virtue of its citizens, from the Old Testament notion of the Covenant between God and a people held collectively responsible for its actions, and from the New Testament notion of a community based on charity or love and expressed in brotherly affection and fellow membership in one common body.

Charity is the humblest but also the most important of the virtues; strictly speaking, it is charity that gives rise to the «Buddha - thought.»

The other virtues — charity (dana), compassion (karuna), morality (sila), patience (ksanti), energy (virya), meditation (dhyana)-- are to be valued only when their end is the attainment of Buddhahood.

(In short, charity, yet another fundamental Christian virtue, viewed not merely as a commandment or a disposition of the heart, but as a way of showing that one's view is true from every point of view.)

These same virtues, Mark R. Schwehn reminds us, befit the whole of a scholar's life and work: humility, faith, self - denial and charity.

We may end our article where we began it, by quoting from the Novena of Cardinal Newman: Philip, my holy Patron, who wast so careful for the souls of thy brethren, and especially of thy own people, when on earth, slack not thy care of them now, when thou art in heaven... Be to us a good father; make our priests blameless and beyond reproach or scandal; make our children obedient, our youth prudent and chaste, our heads of families wise and gentle, our old people cheerful and fervent, and build us up, by thy powerful intercession, in faith, hope, charity and all virtues».

Stith's point has the added virtue of refuting Dan Biezad's claim that in Endō's Jesuit characters, empathy and genuine charity coincide.

Here is the specific potion of scripture: 2Pe 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 2Pe 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 2Pe 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

Instead of the Sermon's provision for cases at law, for the exercise of charity, for civic virtue, presupposing if at the same time reinterpreting the requirements of the ancient national code; instead of the Old Testament Law with its provisions for the inheritance of property, for various kinds of civic and social duties, albeit of a primitive order, which the Sermon presupposes, (Matt.

What the modern mind finds disconcerting in Christian charity is its negative or at least static aspect, and also the «detached» quality of this great virtue.

On the basis of this initial idolatry it develops a morality in which economic worth becomes the standard by which to measure all other values and the economic virtues take precedence over courage, temperance, wisdom and justice, over charity, humility and fidelity.

Robert Bellah has shown that American culture from its early beginnings has held two views in tension: on the one hand, the biblical understanding of community based on the notion of charity for all members, a community supported by public and private virtue; and, on the other hand, the utilitarian understanding that community is a neutral state which allows individuals to pursue the maximization of their self - interest.16.

Here I think she opposes a governmental public policy that IN THE NAME OF VIRTUE turns charity into a DUTY that is forced, or imposed onto people.

charity is not a virtue, but more of an obstacle to life lived to the fullest.

No, true value, true virtue is creating wealth... not redistributing it in the form of charity or taxation.

The benefits are: God's mercy is communicated in a tangible way; Reconciliation with God; Personal encounter with Christ; Divine life is restored in our soul; Grace is given; Confession reminds us of the price of sin; The profits of penance; Remission of eternal punishment; Temporal punishment can be diminished; Merit and virtue restored; Makes our prayers and works more efficacious; We benefit from the priest's prayers and penance; More fruitful participation in other sacraments; Sacrament of healing; Strengthens our faith; Cultivates hope; Increases charity; Fosters growth in humility and in self - knowledge; Helps to form our conscience; Brings psychological benefits; Prevents us from falling into more serious sins; Improves our prayer life; Source of spiritual direction; Helps us becomesaints.

For, Huebner writes, «without such images as the triumph of the lamb and the heavenly banquet, along with the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity that give them a kind of material display, [the deaths of martyrs] are reduced to a crude occurrence of meaningless suffering, or at most a form of masochism.»

The biblical understanding of national life was based on the notion of community with charity for all the members, a community, a community supported by public and private virtue.

We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the virtues of sympathy, charity, and non-resistance may be, and often have been, manifested in excess.

A detailed comparison of these lists with that in Nicolai Hartmann's second volume of his Ethics, would not be without interest.15 Also the great Pauline virtues of faith, hope, and charity are left unaccounted for — to say nothing, for example, of joy, peace, long - suffering, gentleness, meekness, humility, and temperance, or of the Vedantic Sat, Chit, and Ananda.

[8] From the theological point of view, however, since charity is a theological virtue, love introduces us to the last important feature of Pauline ethics: grace.

He notes that «service is a universal principle: it applies to every aspect of life - the State should be at the service of the citizens, politics at the service of the State, the doctor at the service of the sick, the teacher at the service of students», and he emphasises that service flows out from various virtues, especially humility and charity.

The virtue of having your IRA administrator cut a check to the charity — rather than taking the RMD, depositing it in your account, writing the check to charity, and deducting it on your tax return — is that the qualified charitable distribution, unlike an RMD, doesn't inflate your adjusted gross income.

But the harnessing of self - interest by markets does not transform greed and indifference to the poor into virtues; nor does the market render concern for the poor and charity unnecessary.

I could make something up about how I believe that the virtues of education and charity were passed down through generations, despite the radical change in environment from Poland to America.

Now, these environmental NGOs, by virtue of having charity status, were already the recipients of government largesse.