Sentences with phrase «of righteous people»

They are clearly impervious to reason and telling a bunch of righteous people that they are not right just winds them up.

Actually it could have happened this past May, and all of the righteous people really did disappear, all two of them.

These are just and reasonable demands of righteous people and a righteous public, but for too many of our citizens a different reality exists.

Then, Abraham negotiates with God as to the number of righteous people in Sodom.

We know from Abraham's appeal on behalf of Sodom and Gomorra that God will spare a whole city of sinners for the sake of a handful of righteous people.

Most of the righteous people I see are agnostics and atheists; most of the unrighteous people I see are those who claim their god is going to punish and burn people who don't have the same non-provable OPINIONS as they do.

As a woman, I will never bow to a deity whose example of a righteous person includes men who offer their young daughters to a mob for gang rape or lies and whores out his sister / wife to save themselves.

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.

If it weren't for people like you and Naked Pastor, many folks — myself included — would have said to hell with the churches, they're all a bunch of hypocritical, self - righteous bigots.

I have no clue as to what bible some of these self righteous ppl are reading.

If the righteous «religious» folks spend half as much time worry about their own lives and morals instead of butting into other people's, we'd all be better off.

People like Santorum remind me of the Pharasees who were careful to show up in the temple full of pride and self righteous indignation for anyone who dared to question their rigid ideology yet never took one step towards bettering conditions in their society or spoke out against social and economic injustice.

Before Judas proceeded to leave this world, he decided that all people should have at least a good memory of him and he went to the high priests and told them he had turned in guiltless blood, and additionally he threw the wage of betrayel (30 silver coins) into the temple, so that all people of Isreal should get convinced that he had been a righteous man, having made a mistake.

The spirit of every person who dies — whether righteous or wicked — returns to God at death

The same God that makes it rain on the righteous also makes it rain on the unrighteous (and the same for the sun shining)-- God is not a respecter of people that anyone should be treated better than the next.

To be honest, it's more than a little scary when the people who are supposed to be spiritual role models for the next generation are seemingly lost in a sea of self - righteous, politicized sin that seems to be so far removed from what Jesus represented.

Of course, if a person produces a righteous outcome without benefit of Jesus teachings, Christians feel that we are blessed that this person (s) made the righteous decisioOf course, if a person produces a righteous outcome without benefit of Jesus teachings, Christians feel that we are blessed that this person (s) made the righteous decisioof Jesus teachings, Christians feel that we are blessed that this person (s) made the righteous decision.

When people read, comprehend, then apply Jesus» spiritual teachings to their lives they produce righteous decisions to their output of thinking / beliefs, writings and actions.

There are people you say they believe but really don't, they do it for social advantages or to seem righteous in front of other people.

We are all guilty of sin so people need to stop acting self righteous like they do nt actually commit sin anymore!

The most imporant things to remember are firstly, that all have sinned and fall short of the glory they should have, there is none righteous, not one... AND that Jesus has indeed died for the entire sin of the entire world of every single person.

The confusion is that an empathetic person with a healthy full range of emotions including righteous anger to adultery in their distorted minds is «bipolar.»

God's people do not take comfort in the eternal punishment for that rejection, but we do take comfort that God will be glorified eternally by all men, whether in heaven with Him by His grace and love, or separated as receivers of His righteous wrath.

God takes the most evil event in human history, and He redeems it in such a way so that most people today do not even think of it as evil, but as the most holy and righteous event in human history.

I frequently cringe when I hear people use someone's or some group's interpretation supposedly of the Bible to bring «bitterness, strife, and division» to a situation, and feel righteous for having done so.

Just another whack - job hiding under the guise of a «righteous» person.

The anonymity of the internet makes people so incredible base, cruel, and self righteous.

Inspired by Obama and undeterred by parliamentary scandals, as yet uncommitted to any particular party, but increasingly aware that few arenas have the opportunity to create greater positive change for large numbers of people than the righteous use of political power, he wants to study politics, philosophy and economics.

Jesus insisted that no one is righteous, but that all people depend on the generous mercy of God.

It's an important read because a lot of Christians like to imagine that people of faith were on the «righteous side» of history on this, but the fact is, Christians were split.

Who is the righteous person of Psalm 15?

And you know what, after my revelation of GRACE last year which absolutely set me free from «performance Christianity» God told me that, regardless of what «scriptures» people threw at me, what He was telling me directly to my heart, that He has made me perfectly righteous by the blood of His son regardless of what I do or don't do, I must trust His voice in my heart, more than the printed «Word» which has been bended, bent, misterpreted and mistaught.

In spite of all the excruciating ambiguities of history, it is fundamental to the Christian faith that humanity is saved by the life of one righteous person!

What is the saving effect of having righteous people in allegedly wicked cities?

If that is so, then our nation must be seen by the worshipers of Yahweh not as any more sacred, any more holy, or any more righteous than any other nation or people, and our propaganda that would try to convince us otherwise must be countered in the name of the oneness of God.

It wasn't just Moses who argued, but also Abraham — he of the «for the sake of 10 righteous people...».

[7:96] Had the people of those com - m - unities believed and turned righteous, we would have showered them with blessings from the heaven and the earth.

The other ear listens to the parable of the growing seed in Mark 4:26 - 29 with its rebuke of self - righteous zealotic activism, and its claim that God, not the people, will establish the kingdom when the time is ripe.

Actually, if anything makes God vomit, it's self - righteous people who are always preaching about the «sins» of other people.

People fill the TV Churches and send millions of dollars because they prey on your spiritual weakness and your guilt, so you try to buy your way into heaven and appear righteous.

«9 Jesus made the same point sharply in his parable of the lost sheep: «I tell you there will be greater joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety - nine righteous people who do not need to repent» (Luke 15:7).

However, in a few places we also see that God will raise the dead and judge all, and there will be only two groups of people, the righteous and the wicked.

Those who choose this approach must beware lest they end up as self - centered and self - righteous communities of upper middle class people playing at being poor, preoccupied with their own problems and contributing little or nothing to helping others or to resolving the world's problems.

Including your caricature of the matter that reduces this to implying that self - righteous people take food from children for silly peripheral issues.

And he (at least tacitly) accepts that politics — the life of cities — necessarily involves the suffering of at least some innocent and righteous people.

Isaiah 60:21 - 22 «Also your people shall all be righteous; They shall inherit the land forever, The branch of My planting, The work of My hands, That I may be glorified.

Religious Christians can be some of the most self - righteous people on earth.

There is a scripture that says in Proverbs chapter 12 that righteous people take care of their animals and are compassionate towards living creatures.

A lot of people like to justify their anger by calling it «righteous.»

Discernment is not judgmentalism, it is wisdom; but discernment includes the recognition of our own sinful tendencies, including the instinctive self - righteous response, and reminds us, as Sister Helen Prejean discovered in her ministry to those awaiting capital punishment in prison that «people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.»