Sentence examples for religious virtue from inspiring English sources

Slope is entirely self-promoting, but portrays all his actions with a veil of religious virtue embroidered with psychopathic confidence.

However, it is the historical associations of pearls with purity, refinement, religious virtue, glamour and wealth that prevail in our thinking of pearls as the queen of gems".

These multiple perspectives enhance a broad view of religious truth rather than diminish it; hence, there is a strong tendency for contemporary Hindus to affirm that tolerance is the foremost religious virtue.

Although Tea Party groups like Dick Armey's FreedomWorks have emphasized the movement's libertarianism and played down its social conservatism, several of Skousen's 28 principles stress the role of religious virtue.

This new conception of the good life, defined for centuries by association with religious virtue, had as its center the sovereign individual: liberated from older obligations to guild and church, his pursuit of self-interest would be henceforth assisted by continuous technical innovation, commercial expansion and the political institutions of the nation-state.

Regardless of the influence of the avowedly Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party in Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as a general lurch towards conservative forms of religious virtue, mazars continue to play a crucial social, political, economic and – needless to say, spiritual – role in those countries for an even larger number of people than puritanical or extremist Islam can, or ever will.

Based on this, the argument could be made that organ donation fulfilled one of the highest religious virtues.

"What is not acceptable," he concluded, "is to prejudge any group, or to let fear and bias trump the towering American (and for us Catholics, the religious) virtues of hospitality, welcome, and religious freedom".

This can be extended to such religious virtues as loyalty, justice, generosity and compassion.

Daily life was the focus of the game with secular virtues such as thrift, ambition, and neatness receiving more emphasis than religious virtues.

Monier-Williams' Sanskrit-English Dictionary lists several, including: conduct, duty, right, justice, virtue, morality, religion, religious merit, good work according to a right or rule, etc.