Sentence examples for virtuous act from inspiring English sources
Every virtuous act is meant to glorify God.
No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint.
Mainstream Muslim clerics, citing competing verses and traditions that praise the freeing of slaves as a virtuous act, often describe Islam's abandonment of slavery as a sign of its adaptability to modern times.
EVERY SINGLE SECOND OF 'GOOD VIBRATIONS' -- The show that may well be remembered (and hailed) for hastening the death of the jukebox musical, a virtuous act of euthanasia if ever there was one.
That intrinsically virtuous act of will, for Ockham, is an act of "loving God above all else and for his own sake".
On pain of infinite regress, therefore, extrinsically virtuous acts of will must ultimately lead back to an intrinsically virtuous act of will.
Apparently, "virtuous acts can license subsequent asocial and unethical behaviours".
Like Aristotle, whose shade he revered, he believed in habituation to virtuous acts.
It seems to us, like most virtuous acts, the solicitousness of the government's sales policy transcends itself.
A critic might concede that in some cases virtuous acts can be described in Aristotle's terms.
Those external goods that one can acquire in life are tools that help people perform virtuous acts; as such, they to be valued and sought (Poli. VIII 15 p393).
