Hawthorne is most enjoyable and most true to himself when he offers us the chalice of poetry filled to the very brim with the clear liquid of moral truth.
In all we may find our way to some mystic monument of eternal law, or pluck garlands from some new-budded bough of moral truth.
Hawthorne, as has been urged already, is a great believer, a man who has faith; his belief goes out toward what is most beautiful, and this he finds only in moral truth.
It entirely disposes of the objection that if moral truth cannot be proved by miracles, they must be valueless.
The objection urged against Christianity, that because a miracle cannot prove a moral truth it is therefore useless, is quite beyond the question at issue.
Is it not a fact, that every natural as well as moral truth may be fully unfolded to the understanding without them?
If I thought so, though I should have been mistaken, I told a moral truth.
He was more likely to understand it, as the pictures formed a series, meant 'to illustrate one great maxim of moral truth, viz.
Moral truth, is, when you tell a thing sincerely and precisely as it appears to you.
The onlooker, investigating a primitive custom, can see that moral elements have helped to build it up, so that it embodies something of moral truth.
He who accepts the spontaneous deliverances of his conscience, when confronted with the necessity of making a decision, as revelations of moral truth, may be called a perceptional intuitionist.
Seneca adds his testimony to the self-luminous character of moral truth: "Whatever things tend to make us better or happier are either obvious or easily discovered.
Thus he defends the body of moral truth accepted by so many of his fellow-moralists.
Religion, therefore, being the belief of a God, and the practice of moral truth, cannot have connection with mystery.
But though every created thing is in this sense a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more than obscurity can be applied to light.
The God in whom we believe is a God of moral truth, and not of mystery.
And the practice of moral truth, or, in other words, a practical imitation of the goodness of God, is no other than our acting towards each other as he acts benignly towards all.
The God in whom we believe is a God of moral truth, and not a God of mystery or obscurity.
And the practice of moral truth, or, in other words, a practical imitation of the moral goodness of God, is no other than our acting towards each other as he acts benignly towards all.
But though every created thing is, in this sense, a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more than obscurity can be applied to light.
They show, by the nature of their objections, that they acknowledge poetic propriety or moral truth to be the sole criterion of religious credibility.
For the respect exacted by an establishment is limited and external, and not greater than its traditional forms probably deserve, as normal expressions of human feeling and apt symbols of moral truth.
Our religion consists in denying the authority of the ideal, which is its only rational foundation; and thus that religion, while gaining nothing in empirical reality, comes to express a moral falsehood instead of a moral truth.
It is accordingly a moral truth which no subterfuge can elude, that some things are really better than others.
His neglect of duly distributing punishment and reward is no moral fault, so long as moral truth is kept sight of in characterizing actions, while that neglect is borrowed closely from reality.
He had no sooner completed his proof that execution was the sole criterion of poetry, than he went on to argue that "the highest of all poetry is ethical poetry, as the highest of all earthly objects must be moral truth.
Moreover, knowledge of the physical world is felt to possess a higher degree of certainty than does any knowledge we can have of supposed economic or moral truth, or of economic or moral standards.
God is necessarily the principle of Moral Truth, and of personal morality.
Moral Truth, like every other universal and necessary truth, cannot remain a mere abstraction.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moral truth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
