Sentences with phrase «with other virtues»

What struck me about the remark is that virtues can become their own enemies unless they are counterbalanced with other virtues....

All of these, together with any other virtues that could be named, are gifts of the Sender, continuously given, continuously rejected, continuously renewed.

It carries biblical origins and grew in popularity along with these other virtue names.

Not exact matches

The other night, I had the pleasure of having dinner with Vivek Kundra, a big name in technology circles by virtue of his being the first ever Federal Chief Information Officer of the United States.

The greatness of America is rooted in the virtue of our principles; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights; that government must be by the consent of those who are governed; that it is precisely the defense of rights and due process for the utterly indefensible that secures the rights of all others.

Others have observed that countries such as China and India were able to maintain parities by virtue of the application of capital controls, so an equally vigorous debate on the role of capital controls is intertwined with the debate on regimes.

(the way someone thinks about the world) Do you no view people of the world with Inherent existence; existence possessed by virtue of a being's own nature, and independent of any other being or cause?

It should give one pause, however, that Abraham Lincoln was quite comfortable with the idea that law is a business as well as a profession, and that his idea of virtue in a lawyer was not much different from common decency in any other occupation.

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.

Some phases are completely determinate, but these are continuous with each other by virtue of mediating phases of incomplete determination moving toward penultimate determination.

He is contrasted with all others by virtue of being «nontemporal.»

Mercy is a virtue that requires someone who needs mercy, someone with some sort of sin or other imperfection.

Wolfhart Pannenberg concluded his incisive overview of the period with the observation that one must «spare the Christian doctrine of God from the gap between the incomprehensible essence and the historical action of God, by virtue of which each threatens to make the other impossible,» and went on to state that «in the recasting of the philosophical concept of God by early Christian theology considerable remnants were left out, which have become a burden in the history of Christian thought.»

While nobody has a monopoly on virtue, it is not blasphemy to suggest that some people, some patterns of behavior, and maybe even some party platforms are more in accord with God's will than others.

Indeed, if the past is infinite, it must share certain abstract characteristics, such as are embodied in Whitrow's two criteria, by virtue of its infinitude, with any other infinite sequence.

If we find other meaningful life, that won't prove there's no God, and we'll remain stuck with virtue and «born to trouble» out there, as we are here.

Yet, on the other hand, he never scaled downward man's possibilities, and the very virtues that have been enumerated as belonging to the life of faith and love are implicit witness to his confidence that man with the help of God could live as the «salt of the earth.»

In a simplified scheme, his multi-faculty humanity possessed broadly speaking three layered faculties that connected with the three broad divisions of the entire affair, namely, sensible, rational and transcendental — the highest being the transcendental spirit of humanity that was capable of connecting with the Other by virtue of being in possession of a core that corresponded to the Other.

Economists have recently discovered such notions as trust and Institutions, noting what the rest of us always knew, that a deal in a market (such as your employment with all its formal and informal clauses) depends on both prudence and the other virtues.

Typically, the writers affirm that, by virtue of their marginalization, they are in «solidarity» with other marginalized people.

Let us call the features of things by virtue of which they are determinate with respect to other things their «conditional features,» because those features mark the ways other things condition their identity.

By virtue of its conditional features it does occupy positions with respect to other things and thereby makes a difference to the world.

The idea that society could be based on a mere coagulation of individual interests, that the pursuit of private vice could result in public virtue, was a radically new idea in the 17th and 18th centuries and one that did not sit well with other still powerful traditions.

An eternal object is supposed to bestow or withhold a specific, precise form of definiteness, but how can this be if every eternal object drags along with it, so to speak, the whole choir of eternal objects in virtue of the fact that its relationships to other eternal objects are internal relations?

Today's world man has become with no value other than his organs if sold or stolen... so what is happening only proves that we are imposing marketing the wrongs against the rights... cultures and beliefs are going down the drain with all those values, morals, virtues some how turning into commotion among cultures and beliefs turning against each other misunderstanding each other or unaware of cultures way of living and beliefs to ease communication mutual understanding as a nation of mankind and a nation of faiths.

Throughout the early months and years of marriage, it is important for couples to exercise the virtue of patience with each other, recognizing that growth takes time and struggle and living together.

The minister is unique compared with all the other helping professionals by virtue of the unique outcomes of his or her labor.

I also agree with Hodrick that still other lines must be drawn around the market, and that even when government does not draw these lines, convictions and virtues drawn from other sources ought to insist upon them.

In this case, Whitehead's philosophy may have the virtue of picturing the theistic issue exactly as it seems to be — with the question of God's existence an open one to be decided on grounds other than those of systematic necessity.99

Writing in the aftermath of World War II, Mark Van Doren characterized Hawthorne's reaction to the programmatic liberal optimism of his age: Hawthorne «merely knew that it was wrong when it said with Emerson that self - reliance is a sufficient virtue comprehending all other virtues.

They exist and they function by virtue of their control over the individuals who comprise them in the process of exchanging content with each other.

In other words, the task, as recent theological discussion has urged, is to create not images that purport to describe God, but images that articulate, by virtue of metaphor or analogy, a relationship with God.

But this criticism does not really apply to Hartshorne in that in his virtue ethics he is not so much concerned with agents as with the principles that (albeit at a high level of abstraction) guide one in determining which actions are logically possible and which, when chosen by some agent or other, are consistent with what must be the case in metaphysics.

But in Western culture, Bowman explains (echoing Nietzsche), primitive honor did battle for centuries with the Christ - ideal of inner virtue, humility, and turning the other cheek.

Man increasingly is a threat both to himself and to other species by virtue of the powerful things he does to his environment with his machines, his chemicals, his weapons, and his waste products.

As for myself, it was impossible to believe that if the demon were its author, he could have used, in order to lose me and lead me to hell, an expedient so contrary to his own interests as that of uprooting my vices, and filling me with masculine courage and other virtues instead, for I saw clearly that a single one of these visions was enough to enrich me with all that wealth.»

The Pharisee was not condemned because he spoke falsely in what he said; but the fact that he compared himself with others, that he desired to exhibit his virtue before God, showed that he did not rightly understand what God's grace meant.

He makes exactly the same movements as the other knight, infinitely renounces claim to the love which is the content of his life, he is reconciled in pain; but then occurs the prodigy, he makes still another movement more wonderful than all, for he says, «I believe nevertheless that I shall get her, in virtue, that is, of the absurd, in virtue of the fact that with God all things are possible.»

In the early years of their long - running dialogue, Stout might well have expected Hauerwas's Christian virtue ethics to fit well with his own account of democratic virtues, the two value systems cooperating to sustain a secular democracy without yielding to the secularism of Rorty and others.

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.

Man's responsibility in this regard must be exercised in and with varying degrees of deference to the external moral (and natural) orders he inherits in virtue of his past and present relationships with God, other individuals, groups, nature, history, culture, and a variety of moral communities.

True, I did write about the beauty of Reformed tradition which I love with the same passion that I would write about the beauty of my wife; and, while that analogy is not perfect (I would not extol my wife's virtues as a means of encouraging others to marry her, while I do extol the virtues of the Reformed faith with proselytizing intent), I hope it explains my zeal.

To the extent that we are committed to the ideal of a secular society free of ecclesiastical influence and governed by toleration, liberty, and a conception of civic virtue; and insofar as we think of true religious piety as consisting in treating other human beings with dignity and respect, and regard the Bible simply as a profound work of human literature with a universal moral message, we are the heirs of Spinoza's scandalous treatise.

It is by virtue of their physical properties that electrons and other particles combine in different ways to produce atoms, and so it is with atoms that find themselves in juxtaposition and then combine to produce molecules.

For if God is to share human nature with the whole human race through the Incarnation, there need to be other human beings sharing this nature by virtue of their inheritance of it through conception of a woman.

Why should they not be regarded as simply a number of substances which are indeed really related in virtue of their mutual acting on each other, but independent with regard to substantial being?

It is by virtue of transcending that we can see the community of interests that we share with others and convert apparent trade - offs into mutually supportive goods.

The natural disorder of children expresses itself in the tyrannical will to power over others, and the conventional response of parents is to subdue this desire with the discipline of the traditional virtues.

Faith is the key, faith bracketed with the other two virtues, traditionally named as «theological», those of hope and love, the latter also in a further sense under - girding faith.

Aristotle writes «The same causes and the same means that produce any excellence or virtue can also destroy it... The same holds true of the virtues: in our transactions with other men it is by action that some become just and others unjust, and it is by acting in the face of danger and by developing the habit of feeling fear or confidence that some become brave men and the others cowards....