Sentences with phrase «after righteousness»

They «hunger and thirst after righteousness» but also after acceptance, love, and serenity.

But to hunger and thirst after righteousness is a great thing, a noble thing.

If, however, like Noah, they form their thoughts after righteousness and godliness, they will find grace in the eyes of the Lord, and He will guide them, protect them, and even deliver them from the floods of violence and destruction that come upon the evildoers.

Sinners do not seek after righteousness.

Evil is all around us and even in our own hearts, but we must choose whether to form our hearts after evil, following those who died in the flood, or form our hearts after righteousness, like Noah who survived the destruction of the flood.

Admittedly, I don't get around to hungering much after righteousness, apart from the experience of physical hunger.

Each one should do the works of his profession and station, not that by them he may strive after righteousness but that through them he may keep his body under control, be an example to others who also need to keep their bodies under control, and finally that by such works he may submit his will to that of others in the freedom of love.70

The really tragic part is that once you actually encounter Jesus Christ in a real way, that is, become Born Again, leaving behind sin and chasing after righteousness becomes easier and easier.

I said to myself: It is indeed wonderful for Jesus to pronounce blessings upon the poor in spirit, the meek, the mourners, those who hunger and thirst after righteousness and the peacemakers.

If, however, like Noah, they form their thoughts after righteousness and godliness, they will find grace in the eyes of the Lord, and He will guide them, protect them, and even deliver them

In the Hebrew - Christian tradition the presupposition is that the universe does contain satisfaction for man's highest desires, that those who hunger and thirst after righteousness are blessed and shall be filled, that there is living bread and water for the spirit, not, in a negative peace of renounced desire but in the positive achievement of triumphant personality, both here and in an eternal kingdom of souls.

Scripture manifests a rich vocabulary of desire: «My soul thirsts for God»; «Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness»; «I press on to grab hold of that for which Christ first grabbed hold of me.»

There's a world of difference between one who is «hungering and thirsting after righteousness» and one who is merely seeking an intellectual snack.

«Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be satisfied» (Matt.

As Shamblin puts it in The Weigh Down Diet, the purpose of a Christ - centered diet program is to «learn how to replace head hunger with the will of God so that you transfer this urge for a pan of brownies to that of hungering and thirsting after righteousness.»

This option, offensive not only to us but already to Matthew, motivated him both to insert «Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven» and also, at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount (the Beatitudes pronounced on the poor and hungry), to add that God's blessing has to do with the «poor in spirit,» who «hunger and thirst after righteousness,» not simply with hungry beggars, which is what the Greek word translated «poor» actually means.

The ethical life which Jesus exalts in many of his most characteristic teachings is the ethical life of the penitent: the kingdom of God belongs to the poor in spirit, the meek, those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, those who seek mercy, the childlike, the humble.

Matthew refers to «the poor in spirit:, Luke to «you poor»; Matthew speaks of «those who hunger and thirst after righteousness», Luke of «you that hunger».

Make us to hunger and thirst after righteousness: that we may be filled therewith.

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is different.

And saints can transform our world, or even just a small bit of it, so that a corner of Calcutta becomes a place where there is mercy, and purity of heart, and justice... or a Communist empire falls because of meekness and mercy and hungering and thirsting after righteousness.

Saints are those who «hunger and thirst after righteousness».

To all who are spiritually weary and seek rest; to all who mourn and long for comfort; to all who struggle and desire victory; to all who sin and need a Savior; to all who are strangers and want fellowship; to all who hunger and thirst after righteousness; and to all who will come, this church opens wide her doors and offers welcome in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ!