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Example sentences for "moral character"

  • But there is another link, and one more spiritual, which binds man to man for good or evil, and that is moral character.

  • No external circumstance can justify it: wealth is no proof of moral character; nor poverty of the want of it.

  • It is greatly to our purpose, moreover, to observe that the apostle clearly defines the moral character of his request.

  • May I not hope, that you will, both as a Republican and a Christian, take the ground, that despotism has a moral character, and a bad one?

  • It is a state of trial and discipline with a view to the formation of moral character.

  • It is a question which may be properly entertained, whether a free self-determined being can be made perfect in moral character in any other manner than by the discipline of the will.

  • Was the earth designed to be a theatre for the development of moral character, the education and discipline of moral beings?

  • This is the reason too why he is thought not to be low in moral character, because to exceed in giving and in forbearing to receive is no sign of badness or meanness, but only of folly.

  • Goodness is the eternal principle of God's nature which leads him to communicate of his own life and blessedness to those who are like him in moral character.

  • As God cannot but demand of his creatures that they be like him in moral character, so he cannot but enforce the law which he imposes upon them.

  • These three surpass all the other gods in moral character and in providential care over the universe.

  • This theory would compel us to believe that in eternity past God was holy only because of the good he got from it,--that is, there was no such thing as holiness in itself, and no such thing as moral character in God.

  • The intention to do what is known to be wrong, even when the overt deed is prevented, stamps upon the person its own moral character.

  • Some of these essential elemental functions may in themselves possess no moral character whatever.

  • The authority of conscience touches at each and all of these different points, because at each and all human life is taking shape in moral character, as either conformed to duty or variant from it.

  • The first law ever promulgated must have been either a just or an unjust law, or else of no moral character.

  • In so far as they are purely instinctive, they have no moral character.

  • This is exactly the point at which we wish to apply the lever and to lift into prominence the moral character-building aim as the central one in education.

  • In our meetings, discussions on the means of moral influence are more frequent and earnest than on any other topic; and in their daily work hundreds of our teachers are aiming at moral character in children more than at anything else.

  • As a theory the culture epochs may seem too loose and unsubstantial to serve as the basis for such a serious undertaking as the education of children to moral character.

  • In conclusion, therefore, shall we make moral character the clear and conscious aim of school education, and then subordinate school studies and discipline, mental training and conduct, to this aim?

  • Happiness is only one of his ends; the evolution of moral character is another.

  • Moral character in Chemosh, Moloch, or Baal was not of much importance, and their relations with their peoples were never conditioned by moral conduct.

  • Further, by issuing this code under the name of Yahweh Moses claimed for Him a moral character.

  • We now perceive clearly in what consists the real identity of moral character, in all Intelligents of true moral rectitude.

  • Take that divinest and noblest of all instruments for the carving out and refining of moral character, the will of God.

  • We naturally turn to Bishop Butler when we think of moral character.

  • That fellow really had a moral character, and, worse still, he couldn’t be scared.

  • I knew all the time that I had no moral character, no principles.

  • That was because I had no moral character.

  • In the idea that all art, when we have taken due account of technique and training, springs from a moral character, we find the unifying principle of Ruskin's strangely diversified work.

  • First, of the foundation of art in moral character.


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