Sentence examples for virtue of action from inspiring English sources

Valla's reductive strategy has a clear aim: to equate this essential virtue of action, fortitude, with the biblical concept of love and charity.

As a true virtue of action, it is closely connected to justice and is defined as "a certain resistance against both the harsh and the pleasant things which prudence has declared to be evils".

What Rev. Mohler should have said to Congressman Weiner was that the Judaism in which he was raised has always extolled the virtue of action over dogma, behavior over belief.

A reading of the books of virtues of actions such as Salaah, Fasting, Hajj, Sadaqaat, Zikr, etc. by Shaykhul Hadith Maulana Zakariyyah Saheb (Rahmatullah 'alayh) will create enthusiasm in the heart for action.

The majority opinion, he added, "transforms a potential virtue of affirmative action into a vice".

But after delivering his broadsides against "market radicals" from Mandeville to Hayek, Judt offers a very old idea: the "virtue of collective action for the collective good".

That force, in virtue of its action, is put "somewhere" suggests a bond of force and space.

A force acts by radiating its action; it spreads its effects out (ihre Wirkungen von sich ausbreiten; #10; 1:24.23), and this spread determines its source as being inside it, locating force in virtue of its action.

Already some years earlier it has been reported that silymarin "might exert stabilizing effects at the membrane level, by virtue of its action upon membrane-bound enzymatic activities" [47].

It follows from this that the motive that originally "bestows a merit on any action" can never be moral approval of that action (awareness of its virtue), but must be a non-moral, motivating psychological state — that is, a state distinct from the "regard to the virtue" of an action (moral approval or disapproval) (T 3.2.1.4).

The virtue of an action of this species would be established by its being done from this non-moral motive, and only then could an agent also or alternatively be moved so to act by her derivative regard to the virtue of the act.