Sentences with phrase «how righteous»

No matter how righteous the effort, the chances of favorably impacting the dysfunctional behavior of the political elite and the ideologically motivated are slim and none.
Sometimes, no matter how righteous the cause, the bad guys win.
Something I am thinking about blogging about tomorrow: how our righteous demands on people in the church actually betray our anxiety.
Str8 couples make Gays people, no matter how righteous they think they are.
But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God whether it is love or hate man does not know.
How evil that US Soldier was, and say by contrast how righteous the US soldiers were that dropped off food in Haiti and how it's IMPOSSIBLE that a US Soldier could be involved in both mission without being dishonorably discharged, because it «violates the true essence» of what a solider is.
Regrettably I can't escape hearing about how righteous they are from people that think it's okay to shove in everyone else's face.
Of course, there will always be folks to stone, no matter how righteous everyone might become.

Not exact matches

Whenever I write about how success is often based on outworking other people — both in terms of effort and in terms of hours spent — many people respond with righteous indignation.
I think voters often choose movies that reflect their righteous anger but rarely their seething sense of impotence and futility (Crash, maybe), and I'm not sure that the BAFTA win for Three Billboards — oh, those Americans, isn't that how they solve everything, hitting someone or burning something?
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.
Our theology and doctrines, no matter how they are interpreted or by whom, do not make any of us righteous — the resurrection of Christ does.
Your comments about «L O V E» just speak volumes about how little we need to value the words of those that bend over backwards to keep «God» in their righteous jargon.
But you, when you don't like how I pharase my arguements and debate with others; when I use what YOU consider meannest and bullying, you then have the right to use words like «Bully, arrogant, sarcastic, antagonistic attitude,» you are just the righteous DEFENDER.
How in the world does one believe in this torture and it being righteous?
How can you be so self righteous?
I'd say that's pretty much a no - brainer, but that's not at all how theoretically and ideologically righteous theorists see it.
This all reminds me of the book of Job, of how he loved his family so, and how he tried to convert his first family to do the law, and be with YHWH, he wanted so badly for his sons, and daughters then to follow the law, and to live a better and righteous life but they were resistent, and wanted to do whatever they want.
It's hard to imagine that self righteous Christians feel the need to rob the dying of their last few minutes by telling them how they're going to burn in hell for eternity if they aren't like them.
I love how self righteous you are.
Ecclesiastes describes how the wicked get promoted and the righteous get laid off.
How exactly are you different than the majority of self - righteous Christians!?! Have at it — you all disgust me.
Paganism is more righteous than any churches built to posses their flocks» unknowledgeable folding visual sightedness of the envisioned atypical sightless crops who no not how to live without leaning upon the crux.
Judging before knowing more how it should be right in Islam, or to know who is out of the righteous way of Islam or is being of Evil Deeds taking Islam as undercover... there are those are the worse Danger to any Religion or Islam within it, more than any others from out side... As they are the worse danger than any Combined forces put together... They are to their «Nation» as «Termites to Woods»..!!
how... could I be wrong... Im such a righteous and true believer...???? only I know whats right and wrong..
It appears that if I am not a CHRISTIAN troll, I am to be condemned as a heretic / heathen while the apologist crowd, no matter how different their beliefs will band together in righteous indignation.
Paul can be downright annoying when he blatantly brags about «how holy, righteous and blameless was our behavior.»
For this reason, if God, the holiest and most righteous of all, did not withhold grace and mercy from wretched sinners, surely we can not turn around and hold the sins of our parents over their heads, no matter how difficult this may be and no matter how we've suffered.
Oh, yes, having a righteous man of God providing for you as you too, learn how to think, comprehend, apply righteousness in all you do is such a bad thing in your pathetic carnal viewpoint.
When we are honest with ourselves, it's hard not to notice how a part of us rejoices whenever a representative of an opposing ideology does something so horrendous or embarrassing or extreme that we can stand up, and with a rush of righteous indignation say, «See!
(Matthew 6:8) Prayer was not begging a reluctant deity for his best gifts, as though he were an unjust judge or a surly neighbor in bed with his children unwilling to arise and answer a call for help — although if patience in prayer could accomplish its end even in such cases, how much more with the righteous and merciful God!
I think coming from a fundamentalist background, seeing the Greek philosophical uses of this terminology helps me recover a sense of a non-legalistic meaning and it avoids the problem of how you could be righteous without actually fully being so.
The Sabbath day rest showed us how much work we have to do to be found righteous, none.
I have at times, even I, have felt self - righteous toward others and spiritually superior and have had to confess and repent, so how Much harder it must be for those who have lived «righteous» lives.
It always amazes me how self - righteous those heterosexual folk can be on this.
It's curious how unrighteous we can be out there, but once we get within the walls of a church, we become something we are certainly not: righteous.
What God is looking for is repentence and a turning to him rather than a turning away from him.God instituted the animal sacrifices to show just how bad sin was so we would be sorry that we greived him.For us to be made right there has to be a choice to turn from sin and follow him and out of that decision there should be a desire to walk in his ways.Under the old law part of that obedience was to make offerings however it was by faith in God that made the person righteous and not the blood of animals.
If i die tonight, I too will seat in the judgment seat but Jesus will stand and defend me, He will tell the Father in Heaven that I am His and how my sins have been washed away by Jesus» blood - I will stand before God righteous not because of what I did or didn't do but because I believed and trusted in Him!!
History clearly shows how the pilgrims couldn't paddle across the Atlantic fast enough to inflict their pain and misery to all those who disputed their righteous ways and once stepping foot upon the north continent, the sword of Christianity was sharp and swift.
Neville i agree with you Jesus has the power to forgive sin past present and future through the cross when he died his death covered past present and future.If those in the old testament were justified by faith and made righteous then they are covered by the blood of Jesus even though he hadn't died for them yet because there hope was in God.Isn't that what the definition of faith is it is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things unseen.The proof is Enoch how could he go to be with God if he was not righteous and only the blood of Jesus is able to do that.
mayvbe thats why much of the church here has become a place for the self righteous... and we forget how far the Lord has brought us in this journey called life.
Otherwise explain Enoch to me how could a unredeemed sinner stand in Gods prescence only a redeemed and righteous man could therefore he was covered by the blood of Jesus he is the only acceptable sacrifice.Jesus is the same yesterday today and forever with God all things are possible.To me how else could God have forgiven sinners in the old testament?It was by faith and by the grace of God it never changed but Christ was the sacrifice for all past present future.brentnz
Ask the pastor sitting on his righteous throne to explain how it is that during the holocaust it was secular people who were more likely to help the Jews than the Christians.
How about bigotry, and self - righteous judgmental behavior like your's?
I have begun 12 step meetings and am trying to understand how to stay in the program with my ambivalence about God as an ex catholic burned by righteous hostility.
Jesus does know what is in everyone's heart, that's why He gave us a blueprint on how to live a righteous life while on earth.
Jeremy Myers, i think you are wrong and David is right, so many out there are preaching you can live any way you want and be right that Grace covers any sin, they really believe that, that is not what the bible says, God was very concerned about sin so much he sent Jesus his son to die on a cross for us, if we accept Jesus as our savor then we are to obey his commandments, not break them, we are to live a righteous and holy life as possible, the bible plainly list a whole list of things if we live in will not to to heaven unless we repent, if we die while in these sins, we will not go to heaven, what is the difference, between someone who said a prayer and someone who did not, and they are living the same way, none, i think, if we are truly saved it should be hard to do these things let alone live and do them everyday, i would be afraid to tell people that it does not matte grace covers their sins, i really think it is the slip ups that we are convicted of by the Holy Spirit and we ask for forgivness, how can anyones heart be right with God and they have sex all the time out of marriage, lie, break every commandment of God, i don't think this is meaning grace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hates sin,
I guess my response to this letter would be to ask them to examine more closely how Jesus responded to those who claimed to be righteous yet boldly continued in their behavior contrary to God's word with arrogance and the pride of self - righteousness.
How will you explain falsely worshiping a pedophile god instead of the righteous ruler of the gods?
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