The champions of the social conception of life usually try to connect the idea of authority, that is, of violence, with the idea of moral influence, but this connection is quite impossible.
The effect of moral influence on a man is to change his desires and to bend them in the direction of the duty required of him.
The advocates of the opposite view--the view that God works only through the truth as a means, and that his only influence upon the soul is a moral influence--very naturally deny the mystical union of the soul with Christ.
Although no church or union of churches has rightful jurisdiction over the single local body, yet the Council, when rightly called and constituted, has the power of moral influence.
To the activity of priestly minds belongs especially what one often hears called "moral influence.
If I call to some one to run away when a rock is to be blasted, I exert no moral influence by this demand; if I say to a child "You will go hungry if you will not eat what is put on the table," this is not moral influence.
Influence on the spirit, so-called "moral influence," is hereby assured.
The chief of our resources is moral influence--propaganda not only in word but in deed.
At different times the bourgeoisie combined the red-hot irons of repression in different proportions with methods of moral influence, and, first of all, the teaching of the priest.
The Bushnellian, or Moral Influence Theory of the Atonement.
Moral Influence theory, that the love that can do good to an enemy is already forgiving love; so that the benefit to the enemy cannot be, as Bushnell supposes, a condition of the forgiveness.
The mere appearance of an atonement has no moral influence.
This unites the Governmental and the Moral Influence theories.
Yes, she met him too in the truth of the matter that, as her stepmother had had no one else to be jealous of, she had made up for so gross a privation by directing the sentiment to a moral influence.
The advocates of the social life-conception usually attempt to combine the idea of authority, otherwise violence, with that of moral influence; but such a union is utterly impossible.
We know now that threats and punishments are powerless to decrease the numbers of such men, but that their numbers may be decreased by change of environment and by moral influence.
For nothing has so injurious an effect on temper and manners, and consequently on moral influence, as the want of that internal quiet which can only arise from the accordance of duty with inclination.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moral influence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
