Sentence examples for Moral precepts from inspiring English sources

Moral precepts such as "murder is wrong" are seen as divine laws, requiring a divine lawmaker and judge.

Thus, atheists may easily identify with a given religion's moral precepts, its history, even its cuisine.

I see ethics in terms of four moral precepts: equality, dignity, respect and value.

It has to do with reinvigorating, and perhaps enforcing, what he sees as Christianity's nonnegotiable moral precepts.

The Communist Party, heavily pragmatic, is unlikely to adopt the moral precepts at the heart of classical Chinese philosophy.

Oxford's Jonathan Glover sought to apply moral precepts to everyday life in his excellent book, Causing Death and Saving Lives.

This was the Soviet Union against the world and the moral precepts which guide human relations among people everywhere.

Her opponents accused her of antinomianism the view that God's grace has freed the Christian from the need to observe established moral precepts.

1201 - c. 1249 Freidank, (flourished 13th century) German didactic poet whose work became regarded as a standard repository of moral precepts.

Dressed in saffron robes, they wait patiently with their begging bowls, a reminder that Thailand is dedicated to the high moral precepts of Buddhism.

One of the earliest English proverb collections is the so-called Proverbs of Alfred (c. 1150 80), containing religious and moral precepts.