The phrase "as a moral guide" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that serves as a reference for ethical behavior or decision-making.
Example: "Many people look to religious texts as a moral guide in their daily lives."
Alternatives: "as an ethical compass" or "as a principle for conduct".
How then can empathy serve as a moral guide when it is morality's role to lead us away from cruelty toward people outside our own group?
Empathy betrays us only when we take it as a moral guide.
But Clinton never presented himself as a moral guide to the country.
These tensions stimulate imaginative leaps into the triple thought: the work of art that functions as a moral guide.
Flanagan believes that English-language culture has a bad habit of seeing literature as a moral guide that offers us guidance on how to live.
As a moral guide, the phrase is hardly a clarion call, but in a fallen world, ruled by money and compromise — our world — it's almost good enough to become a meme.
A devoted teacher, Mr. Hundert believes himself to be a moral guide as well as a source of information, and his self-confidence is tested by an especially difficult student, a senator's son named Sedgewick Bell (Emile Hirsch).
"Liar's Poker" had served for them as a career blueprint, a moral guide (on how to be in, but not of, the money machine), and the fuel of dreams.
Over the years, his following evolved to suit the ideologies of those in power — from a "cult of the people to a cult for the people," in which Bolívar was presented as "a democrat, a revolutionary, a moral guide and a Catholic," and in which his policies "were hailed as relevant beyond his own time".
As a parent, you become a moral guide for a future member of society, setting expectations and standards to live by.
In what way, then, can it serve as a reliable moral guide?
