Sentence examples for virtuous living from inspiring English sources

Some have considered them a dangerous substitute for Scripture, a tool of hierarchical church authority or a distraction from heartfelt faith and virtuous living.

As such, market exchange, trade, wealth, pricing, labor, and private property are commendable only if they lead to responsible and virtuous living.

What is needed is a growing body of eloquent, articulate, informed, and dynamic spokespeople to communicate the Jewish people's timeless message of personal dignity and accountability, the infinite value of every human life, strong families, education-based opportunity, rights of and respect for women, and morally virtuous living.

His central idea was that a good orator must first and foremost be a good citizen; eloquence serves the public good and must therefore be fused with virtuous living.

Most devoted Muslims experience their religion as life-affirming and a source for virtuous living, not terrifying fear.

Not exactly a poster girl for virtuous living.

He also prefers that a pastor pass the snakes only to people he thinks are living virtuous lives.

Plenty of other MPs in all parties lead quietly virtuous lives doing good, just like Dorothea Brooks in Middlemarch.

Socrates, who probably concentrates the spirit of the humanities better than anyone, spent his time rambling around Athens asking people if they thought they were living virtuous lives.

Accepting the cycle of rebirth, he is merely moving these sentient beings into their next incarnation, where, with any luck, they will improve their karma by living more virtuous lives as sewer rats or mosquitoes.

Priests probably used these stories, written in Chinese, as a source of sermons with the intent of persuading ordinary Japanese, incapable of reading difficult works of theology, that they must lead virtuous lives if they were not to suffer in hell for present misdeeds.