Sentence examples for meritorious act from inspiring English sources

It's no guarantee of quality, no meritorious act in and of itself, but it is often a springboard to distinctive and original results.

In theology the existence of free will must be reconciled with God's omniscience and goodness (in allowing people to choose badly) and with divine grace, which allegedly is necessary for any meritorious act.

Yet Arnauld also assumed that the man's decision, like any meritorious act of will, was free.

It is supposed to be a meritorious act and yet optional, one that may be performed if the spirit moves you, but need not be performed.

He held that efficacious grace is, instead, a feeling of love, which he called a "delectatio victrix (victorious pleasure)" and which infallibly leads to a meritorious act.

For Bañez, then, the actual grace in question is a sort of supernatural beginning of volition that is produced in the human being by God and that infallibly results in a meritorious act of will.

Meritorious acts of will include, among others, the decision to pray, to seek forgiveness for past sins, and to perform a good action for the love of God.

The causal effect of meritorious acts in effecting salvation was a secondary form of causality, functioning like money, as an agreed upon medium of exchange in the economy of salvation.

Abdu'l-Bahá thought that the education and training of children is among the most meritorious acts of humankind and Bahá'í communities put great emphasis on the development of youngsters.

Bondage is bad and freedom is good; meritorious acts are good and demeritorious acts are bad.

Meritorious acts lead one to heavenly realms or, when perfected, to liberation (mokṣa).