In this heightened national dignity, women will have a large and ennobling share.
I still believe this, and I am pretty confident that a good many years will pass before we shall dispense with the ennobling services of our ministers.
We have, it is true, this splendid hall, which lessens our expense for food and encompasses us with ennobling influences; but it costs $150 a year to board here.
What ennobling influences come to schoolboys when once they can think their teacher is the sort of person they would like to be!
Thy celestial inspiration will dominate the remainder of my life, public as well as private, and preside over my progress towards perfection, purifying my sentiments, ennobling my thoughts, and elevating my conduct.
For a long series of years," Steffens writes, "she lived one life with her brother, even ennobling and exalting him by her presence.
The former should never exist without the ennobling companionship and clarifying mixture of the latter.
George Eliot, whose genius was ever labouring to fill up the void which the rejection of her early faith had made, consoled her dying hours, as she had inspired her mostennobling pages, with the Imitation of Christ.
Those {166} views which you hold so strongly, which are to you the most ennobling that have ever been given of God and of religion, where is it that alone they are to be found?
Put together the wisest and most ennobling suggestions of those who regard Christianity as obsolete and you find that it is virtually Christianity which is delineated.
It is sweet and ennobling to think that, when we are discharged of the load of this cumbrous flesh, we shall be much more ourselves, and able to see where now is but darkness, and to feel where now is but vacancy.
It should lift us with it into the empty and ennobling air.
It is then that man, in all the vigour and capacity of his intellectual nature, feels the sentiment of love upon him in all its ennobling force.
With him tender affection for the Queen of Heaven was a pure and holy sentiment, a sublime, and ennobling act of piety.
Generosity was a marked trait of his character, an ennobling principle of his nature, the motive power of his actions, and the mainspring of his life.
These are not incompatible with generosity and ennobling manliness.
Struve, who possessed the faculty of ennobling his environment, introduced Candidate Borg as Dr.
You know nothing of this, you who play all day long, and work a little only during an idle hour between luncheon and dinner; you who rest your spirit when the earth is green and enjoy nature as an ennobling and elevating spectacle.
It is this heroic element in man and woman that makes self-sacrifice an ennobling and purifying ordeal in any religious profession.
It elevates before her an ennobling object, and enlists her fine sensibilities, emotions and affections in its pursuit.
To be sure, it might be said that we honor the industrial spirit of our country in ennobling one who has acquired a colossal fortune by his own unaided abilities; but Manchester and Birmingham have also their 'millionnaires.
He feels no ennobling principle in his own heart who wishes to level all the artificial institutions which have been adopted for giving a body to opinion and permanence to fugitive esteem.
They belong to mankind, and they will be pursued with a zeal as irrespective of equal and exact justice, wherever they are not restrained by the ennobling maxims of Christianity.
He had a strong natural sense of justice, accompanied with moral energy, and gave utterance to elevated and ennobling sentiments in his intercourse.
The passion they celebrated never seems to have inspired one ennobling or generous sentiment, nor to have lifted them for one moment above the grossest selfishness.
The ennobling quality of all politeness is dignity.
Of all young ladies in the world, she should be the one to shrink from a mental independence and hold to the guidance of the man ennobling her.
Seeing her, the light of what he now knew of her was an ennobling equal to celestial.
God, as the presupposition of all elevating ideals, and the object of all ennobling desires, is the primary source and the ultimate explanation of all progress.
Can we, when we set aside Christianity, construct a creed capable of not only commanding the assent of the intellect, but of attracting and changing the heart, quickening and guiding the conscience, and purifying and ennobling the conduct?
The wisdom of the heathen world, at its very best, was utterly inadequate to the accomplishment of such a task as creating a due abhorrence of sin, controlling the passions, purifying the heart, and ennobling the conduct.
The devout worshiper must have some conception of the ennobling or emulatory character of his deity, whether that deity be an idol made with hands or the true and living God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth.
Thus, these holy men were endowed with the ennoblinggifts of the Spirit, which have been inherent in the Church of Christ in all ages.
Within the family established and maintained according to the Divine word, man and woman find their holiest and most ennobling happiness.
Lawful, that is to say righteous, association of the sexes, is an uplifting and ennobling function to the participants, and the heritage of earth-life to preexistent spirits who are thereby advanced to the mortal state.
Has it cultured the popular sensibilities to noble and ennobling ends?
The Greeks did well, at their best time, in cultivating and ennobling the homogenic love.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ennobling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
