Sentence examples for moral effort from inspiring English sources

A community of the broad-minded is a pleasant place, but requires no great moral effort.

Yet Beauvoir also knew that a woman "needs to expend a greater moral effort than the male" to resist the temptations of dependence.

For the secretariat, his authority was absolute because we respected the intellectual and moral effort and the judgment that went into his decisions, and the calmness and lack of pretension with which they were communicated.

Philosophical conversion the beginning of the ascent to the One consists precisely in turning away, by a tremendous intellectual and moral effort, from the life of the body, dominating and rising above its desires, and "waking to another way of seeing, which everyone has but few use".

Through the writings of the monk Evagrius Ponticus (346 399), his ideas passed not only into the Greek ascetic tradition but also to John Cassian (360 435), a Semi-Pelagian monk (who emphasized the worth of man's moral effort), and to the West.

The situation is changing so quickly that it is difficult to say how much my moral efforts will resonate and be successful.

So, while we must never relieve ourselves of our moral efforts, as we remain responsible for our own moral transformation, this does not exclude divine aid in other respects.

While it is true that in Jainism, the moral and religious injunctions were laid down as law by Arhats who have achieved perfection through their supreme moral efforts, their adherence is just not to please a God, but the life of the Arhats has demonstrated that such commandments were conductive to Arhat's own welfare, helping him to reach spiritual victory.

It's because many people in these countries, as Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute has noted, believe in a simple moral formula: effort should lead to reward as often as possible.

A further challenge is that due to suicide's strong negative emotional or moral connotations, efforts to distinguish suicidal behavior from other behavior often clandestinely import moral judgments about the aims or moral worth of such behavior.

And if it happens in argument, it requires a considerable social moral and intellectual effort to arrange.