It means their lifetime of respect for virtuous living has gone unrewarded.

Through such self-knowledge and personal purification (virtuous living) the adept is led to direct knowledge of God via themselves as inner reflection or will.

Teachers model both material objectives and underlying curriculum of virtuous living.

The Parson's Tale is a prose treatise on virtuous living.

In Buddhism, such knowing and knowledge is obtained through virtuous living and meditation.

The "tale", which is the longest of all the surviving contributions by Chaucer's pilgrims, is in fact neither a story nor a poem, but a long and unrelieved prose treatise on virtuous living.

Their mission: to spread the news of the coming redemption, when a messiah is revealed and the world attains a state of perfection, so that all people can safeguard its arrival by virtuous living.

Protestant values shifted from virtuous Christian living to values based on materialism and competitive, capitalist behavior.

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