that Christianity without dogma, without miracles [or, as he calls it, "Christian agnosticism"], shall retain the essential spirit, the pure morality, the consoling beliefs, and as far as possible even the venerable form and sacred associations of the old faith, may appear later.

Nor is there any subject which bears more directly on the elemental principles of theological belief and practical morality, or is more closely connected with the progress of modern religious and social thought, than a consideration of the Mosaic writings.

We might reason, similarly to show that a special statute, if indeed there were such a one, authorizing the Jews to compel the Heathen to serve them, argues that compulsory service is contrary to fundamental morality.

The utilitarian morality does recognise in human beings the power of sacrificing their own greatest good for the good of others.

I do not mean, Sir, to commend the superior morality of this sentiment, which has at least as much pride as virtue in it; but I cannot alter the nature of man.

The marriage, therefore, might be regarded as not merely a revolt against conventional morality, but as leading to a desertion of country, religion, and family.

The flippant manner in which marriage is treated by the Restoration dramatists and by novelists of the 18th century, the callous sexual morality revealed in diaries and in the conversations of men like Johnson alone are sufficient to suggest the need of a readjustment of one's view regarding the standard of morality in the past.

His terrible denunciation and enumeration of evil indicate a very lax morality in every quarter, added to hypocrisy and pharisaism.

And though the great Hebrew prophets teach often a far loftier morality than this, they cannot have been nearly so representative of the feeling of this nation as were Aeschylus and Sophocles and Pindar of the feeling of theirs.

She was a typical product of Victoria's reign, a beautiful creature whose faith was pinned to the most unimportant thingsclass, position, a snobbish religion, a traditional morality and her own place in an intricate little world of ladies and gentlemen.

No ancient teacher enjoined the duties based on an immutable morality with more force than Confucius, Buddha, and Epictetus.

It is well to remember that the heathendoms of America were very far from wanting living seeds of sound morality and healthy mental education.

Thus Venice prided herself on the justice of St. Mark, and few states maintained a greater show or put forth a more lofty claim to the possession of the sacred quality, than that whose real maxims of government were veiled in a mystery that even the loose morality of the age exacted.

Who ever described the peculiarities of the Scottish Calvinists during the reign of the last of the Stuarts with more truthfulness,their severity, their strict and Judaical observance of the Sabbath, their hostility to popular amusements, their rigid and legal morality, their love of theological dogmas, their inflexible prejudices, their lofty aspirations?

Our Lord himself taught a divine morality, which is as it were the body of love, and is as different from mere morality as«the living body is from the dead.

Seneca had recommended the severe morality of the Stoics, but added nothing that was not previously known.

We are spectators to a plot or intrigue (not reducible in life to the point of strict morality) and take it all for truth.

His elevated morality and lofty spiritual life do not alone account for the persecution.

Admirable in domestic morality, and an orderly citizen, he is almost void of social morality.

Fair gambling is a kind of minor morality within the immoral field of gambling, like the honor found among thieves.

Her writings breathe a sound, pure, and healthy morality, and are pervaded by a genuine rural spiritthe spirit of merry England.

Our Lord himself taught a divine morality, which is as it were the body of love, and is as different from mere morality as«the living body is from the dead.

Sir James Stephen of the Colonial Office put it more bluntly, 'The world we live in is not, I think, half moralised enough for the acceptance of such a scheme of stern morality as this.'

The Scripture tells us that the whole absolute morality of God is summed up as our own human morality ought to bein His Love.

Why can you not understand that it is a false morality which is killing you?