Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.
For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.
We have nobility in Sweden, and it comes from the old British aristocracy.
I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
Having children, entering the realm of parents and parenthood, changes our relationship to the world in ways we could not have anticipated and might not have signed up for. Before I had children, for example, I believed strongly in the nobility of suffering.
