Sentence examples for highest virtues from inspiring English sources

Ise Shintō establishes purity and honesty as the highest virtues, realizable through religious experience.

The movie also illustrates another thing: that politics is the best place to develop the highest virtues.

But he saw something noble, too, in the relentless search: "It is also deeply connected with the highest virtues of academic man — the impulse toward perfection".

In both Hinduism and Islam, filial obedience is among the highest virtues, and Mumtaz Begum, a Muslim woman, and Umadi Lal Ratre, a low-caste Hindu man, defied the deepest wishes of their parents by marrying across religious lines.

Rather, Jain believers pay them homage as representatives of great beings in the hope that they may be filled with a sense of renunciation and the highest virtues and thus encouraged along the path toward their final liberation.

Modern suburban Americans, it is argued, rarely sink to the level of depravity -- they are too tepid for that -- but they don't achieve the highest virtues or the most demanding excellences.

Actions like these reflect a society in which success, not goodness, has become our highest virtue.

Or indeed to have considered whether honesty of this sort is the highest virtue.

For as all Jesuit alumni know, the highest virtue is prudence.

Our political institutions led us, earlier than many, to the conclusion that freedom was the highest virtue.

And if you believe it is the highest virtue for a person to remain for ever himself, it is hard then to assert that the highest virtue is for a person to be for ever someone else.