This love is not regard for abstract right or for the happiness of being, much less for one's own interest, but it is regard for God as the fountain and standard of moral excellence, or in other words, love for God as holy.
As God wills and maintains his own moral excellence, so all creatures must will and maintain the moral excellence of God.
But in respect to moral excellence, such knowledge is not enough: a man may do just or temperate acts, but he is not necessarily a just or temperate man, unless he does them with right intention and on their own account.
There are no similar difficulties in the way of modifying the Ideal of Moral Excellence--as distinguished from the dictates of Moral Duty--in order to render it more perfectly felicific.
Of course, the excellence we perceive in the fine arts, which is always relative to moral excellence, must tend to the improvement of taste.
A Brahmin is no longer typical of either religious purity or moral excellence.
A good Hindoo housewife is a model of moral excellence.
Under such a dispensation, it is difficult to conceive how human beings could be formed to a detestation of moral evil, and a love and admiration of God, and of moral excellence.
This being so, it is plain that the proper attitude of all creatures in respect to moral excellence is a recipient and dependent one.
Christianity elevates the standard and raises the ideal of moral excellence, and thereby disturbs the self-complacent feeling of the stoic, and the moralist.
There is no better test of moral excellence, than the keenness of one's sense, and the depth of one's love, of all that is beautiful.
His "moral excellence," however, does not prevent his making the most of them.
The school of difficulty is that in which we have our most efficient training for eminence, whether of capacity or of moral excellence.
In the fact that, by an experiment conducted on the largest scale, it demonstrated the insufficiency of reason to elaborate a perfect ideal of moral excellence, and develop the moral forces necessary to secure its realization.
To speak generally, what we are wont to say about the arts and sciences is also true of moral excellence, for to its perfect development three things must meet together, natural ability, theory, and practice.
But few have as yet been willing to admit that beauty is a quality independent of goodness, independent sometimes to the extent of hostility: that it is as independent of moral excellence as is logical correctness.
There is no justice, no charity, no moral excellence in physical beauty.
If we say that the moral faculty differs from the aesthetic faculty, we can only mean that the mind forms certain judgments of moral excellence, and also certain judgments of beauty, and that these two mental processes are clearly distinct.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moral excellence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
