Y Monday, March 5, 2007Y
10:54 PM
Gracious and healthy lifestyle is when we are forgiving, being gracious, and we eat healthy food. Being healthy, we have to eat a variety of meat, fruits and vegetable. We also need to excercise to keep fit, example, jogging a few rounds in the park every morning. Having a gracious lifestyle is important too, if we always have hatred in our minds and not forgiving others, we will feel very unhappy and that is not healthy. Graciousness is also when someone hurt you accidentally, we forgive them, and we will not have any unhappiness anymore.
10:51 PM
Because God is love, He's a forgiving God. It's like if you cheat on your partner, you say you're sorry and you really mean it, and you promise never to do it again. Then, if you're lucky, your partner will forgive you. It's like that with God, but you're always lucky in that if you ask, with sincerity from your heart, He always forgives and then you are safe. All pretty simple really.
A Biblical reference is found in Exodus 20:20, which says that fearing God keeps us from sinning. Logic tells us that God cannot love evil, because evil is the opposite of love. God loves, but He doesn't love everything. God loves the sinner, but not the sin, and He gets pretty peeved when we sin. If we die as a sinner, we go to Hell, and I reckon that's where most souls go. Hell, whatever that is, and God's anger, sound like things to REALLY fear!
7:20 PM
Maximising Potential is to put in your best in whatever you do despite the obsticles that may stand in your way. It is to never give up hope & persevere till you reach your goal. To be honest, I do normally give up half way, having a mindset that what I'm doing is not what I'm talented at & that I may be better at something different. As a new student of this school with a value that is Maximising Potential, I will graduate from this school knowing that I did maximise my potential in one way or another.
Y Monday, February 26, 2007Y
11:13 PM
TruthTruth is a relation which holds (1) between the knower and the known -- Logical Truth; (2) between the knower and the outward expression which he gives to his knowledge -- Moral Truth; and (3) between the thing itself, as it exists, and the idea of it, as conceived by God -- Ontological Truth. In each case this relation is, according to the Scholastic theory, one of correspondence, conformity, or agreement(adoequatio) (St. Thomas, Summa I:21:2)
Y Monday, February 12, 2007Y
7:44 PM
LoveGreater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. [John 15:13]
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away ...And now these things remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. [Corinthians 13:1-8, 13]
Y Wednesday, February 7, 2007Y
1:35 AM
Justice, or a condition thereof, is a philosophical concept attempting to describe an ideal state of humanity: a morally -correct state of things and people. Whether this ideal is attainable, or perhaps desirable, is an open question. According many theories of justice, it is overwhelmingly important. Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.
1:30 AM
Integrity
Integrity comprises the personal inner sense of "wholeness" deriving from honesty and consistent uprightness of character. Integrity is like honesty. An example of having integrity is not to lie, to cheat. Integrity is one of the most important and oft-cited of virtue terms. It is also perhaps the most puzzling. For example, while it is sometimes used virtually synonymously with ‘moral,’ we also at times distinguish acting morally from acting with integrity. Persons of integrity may in fact act immorally—though they would usually not know they are acting immorally. Thus one may acknowledge a person to have integrity even though that person may hold importantly mistaken moral views.
Integrity comprises the personal inner sense of "wholeness" deriving from honesty and consistent uprightness of character. Integrity is like honesty. An example of having integrity is not to lie, to cheat. Integrity is one of the most important and oft-cited of virtue terms. It is also perhaps the most puzzling. For example, while it is sometimes used virtually synonymously with ‘moral,’ we also at times distinguish acting morally from acting with integrity. Persons of integrity may in fact act immorally—though they would usually not know they are acting immorally. Thus one may acknowledge a person to have integrity even though that person may hold importantly mistaken moral views.