The vast majority of those who have embraced the spiritual leadership of Luther in matters pertaining to Christian doctrine and morals will prove again that they are in no danger of inaugurating man-worship.
We sometimes begin to move uneasily, as if something Pecksniffian had come into our presence, when we behold the twentieth century sitting in judgment on the manners andmorals of the sixteenth century.
In religious matters he was satisfied to select the morals and repudiate the dogmas, but yet he proclaimed himself a Jew with a certain boastfulness.
As true as I love God," cried Boakoam, "your morals are golden.
He sets up a standard of morals and right that takes with weak-minded people everywhere; above all, the women.
You think, then," asked Jacob, "that morals should have no part in the government of nations?
Provided that the book was written in French, in an elegant style, her mother asked no more; as for the morals they inculcated she was utterly indifferent.
This word recalls much suffering, the first legislation worthy of humanity, the most ancient morals emanating from divine wisdom in the Ten Commandments.
From this high state of morals there results a very high degree of social order, which, in its result, again, gives large social and individual liberty.
The wayward genius of Byron, though it uttered much that good morals condemn, recorded nothing hostile to political liberty, but, on the contrary, something in its favor.
As regards the other world, the three Vedas, knowledge, and the science of morals are efficacious.
Those cognisant with virtue and morals have said that truth and honesty are the highest virtue.
And Markandeya said, 'There were two kings of the name of Vrishadarbha and Seduka and both of them were conversant with morals and with weapons of attack and defence.
The gods know him for a Brahmana who, cognisant of morals and endued with mental energy, is catholic in religion and looketh upon all equal unto himself.
It is so very difficult to translate the word Karma,--religion and morals were invariably associated with each other in ancient Hindu mind.
In America, amongst the descendants of the New England Puritans a decay of religion and morals has also been accompanied by a dwindling birth-rate.
It had been said that the degree of sterility could be regarded as an index to the morals of a race.
In 1885 it was asserted, "England alone is reported to contain some seven hundred sects, each of whom proves a whole system of theology and morals from the Bible.
As he always spoke ofmorals and religion, the Athenians took him for a sophist.
The conquest of Greece by the Romans gave the arts, letters, and morals of the Greeks currency in the west, just as the conquest of the Persian empire by the Greeks had carried their language, customs, and religion into the Orient.
Nevertheless it is true that there are among them some Supralapsarians and others who find it hard to declare themselves in clear terms upon the justice of God and the principles of piety and morals in man.
Pray observe that in going back with our visionary thoughts to that ideal moment when God has yet decreed nothing, we find in the [243] ideas of God the principles of morals under terms that imply an obligation.
Private morals were watched by the elders, and offenders were judged in kirk-sessions.
Thus, for want of better means to assert his own views, he took to teaching and reading, to collecting historical facts, to pointing morals and adorning tales.
The morals of the age were, indeed, bad enough, as he well knew who had helped to make them so; but such frank treatment of a disagreeable theme jars exceedingly with an ode devoted to the celebration of chastity and virtue.
Their tragedies would not so often have been rendered unnatural by the employment of rhyme, and their comedies would have exhibited the manners and the morals of the English nation, and not merely of the playgoing part of it.
Open your Rousseau; for there is not a single question of public moralswhose trend he has not pointed out in advance.
I would ask of any reasonable creature, would a demon marshal round the angel whose ruin he had vowed all the elements of disaster with more solicitude than that with which good morals conspire against the happiness of a husband?
Upon this Caroline complains of the badmorals of the lower classes: she complains of the education and the knowledge of figures which distinguish domestics.
The morals of weavers were horribly decried in Greece.
But this discussion would take us far from our subject, if it led us to examine, in all its details, the vast improvement in morals which doubtless will distinguish twentieth century France; for morals are reformed only very gradually!
It has the merit of yielding important lessons for husbands, while at the same time it gives the celibates a delightful picture of morals in the last century.
Certain people who are hit by the views which you put forth will suspect your morals and will misrepresent your intentions.
Think of our husbands, who to the disgrace of morals behave almost all of them like celibates and glory in petto over their secret adventures.
We laugh at the stupidity of the poor Chinaman in his attempts after beauty in art, while in morals we are quite as stupid as he.
And Rudolph's morals were the morals of many of his kind.
His morals were matters of his private life, and they had been neither better nor worse than the average.
In morals our friend--as might be expected circa l730--is a Freethinker and Deist.
As we have seen, it paid no attention to morals and thus taught the lesson that they were unimportant in comparison with accuracy of belief.
All this was wholesome, and yet it is difficult to understand this ardent zeal for the morals of the laity, when compared with the slackness as to solicitation.
The numbers of the clergy were enormously excessive, constituting a running sore and a body subversive of all the principles of morals and statesmanship.
Nature has no care for sex-morals as we understand them, any mode of sexual union is equally right so long as it serves the race-process.
Hobhouse and Donaldson[311] both support this opinion; the latter writer considers that "there was no degradation of morals in the Roman Empire.
I quote these facts from Hobhouse, Moralsin Evolution, Vol.
The same Vandyke-like painter of the morals of the twelfth century elsewhere passes a comprehensive sentence on the convents of canonesses.
It is well, then, first to glance at the morals of the time when one feels eager to measure Abélard’s guilt.
No disorder in faith or morals escaped their notice; and although Norbert was far behind Bernard in political ability, the man who incurred his pious wrath was in an unenviable position.
Watchful over the faith and morals of the colony, he would make no effort to moderate the loud song with which they responded to the warm breath of nature.
He thus redeemed the word "utility" and the utilitarian doctrine of morals from the ill repute they had, for "the greatest happiness principle" was with him a religious principle.
The day after one of these long meetings many of the laborers are unfit to labor; neither are the morals of the negroes improved by these late meetings, nor the health.
How, then, can good order, good morals and honest industry be maintained when immunity from punishment is patent to their understandings?
Is the particular education given in the public schools unfavorable to the morals of the pupils, and, consequently, to the morality of the community?
The public schools, in their relations to the morals of the pupils and to the morality of the community, are attracting a large share of attention.
This superiority is as apparent in morals as in scholarly acquisitions.
The first, and greatest, is the selection of books calculated to degrade the moralsor intellect of the reader.
The change in manners cannot be denied; but the alleged change in morals is not sustained by a great amount of positive evidence.
How were police regulations about public manners and morals to be enforced?
It was there I read in a magazine about morals and music.
I took a seat at St. James's Hall in good time, and opened my mind and morals for impressions.
The brain and the brawn and the morals of the city are constantly replenished from the country.
The present tendency of population to rush into the great cities makes neither for the health nor the character, the intelligence nor the morals of the nation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "morals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
