Sentences with phrase «one's own righteousness»

The self - righteousness of the great powers will resist efforts at greater justice.
But only in righteousness, without force, not by the ways of men.
I guess they are not ready to stand for righteousness sake.
May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
And, as I always say we are all responsible for our own righteousness regardless.
None of us can claim righteousness by what we think, only by our actions can we show our worth.
Far from assuming a position of works righteousness, the inquiry recognized that commitment to a Christian lifestyle has the effect of producing faith.
It's complicated and it's messy, and it's filled with bad situations and scared women and all the self - righteousness on either side will do is make it worse.
No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
There is no blessing for those who simply think about righteousness, but only for those who are truly hungry and thirsty for it.
10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
They «hunger and thirst after righteousness» but also after acceptance, love, and serenity.
Just as the fact of nature and society grows hostile through injustice, so it will be restored to harmony through righteousness.
The question naturally arises, What is the possibility of fulfilling original righteousness for the acting and sinful self?
It continues to make us aware of the legitimate demand of true righteousness.
It's about slipping back into the law (what we do) for righteousness sake.
A Christian practices righteousness not in order to get saved, but because he is yet saved.
That's arrogance and self - righteousness at its very finest.
She adapted mainstream advertisements and transformed them into positive messages of love and social righteousness.
When asked if she seeks revenge, she says she seeks righteousness, but she'll take revenge.
He saw in the real world the search for moral righteousness as filled with ambiguity.
Sometimes that religion is something really silly, like the belief in the absolute righteousness and truth, of the words of one man, like a powerful leader.
We keep a low profile because for us nothing fails to get caught up in the dramatic tension between divine and human righteousness.
Sometimes loving your neighbor means guiding them away from sin & into righteousness.
Rather, it was used when something or someone had been set apart, regardless of the question of personal righteousness.
In the left - hand kingdom is all civil righteousness.
I'm afraid bigotry wrapped in self - righteousness towards the beliefs of the religious is just as bad.
Less sin does not equal more righteousness (115).
Through Christian history there has been a tension between the aim at realizing justice and righteousness within history and personal salvation either in this life or after death.
So much human prejudice, human ignorance, and religious righteousness and misinformation was in play to stop the force of what happened.
But finding that we are unable or unwilling to pay the price of such righteousness, we set up standards of our own.
You are not righteous and have no basis for understanding what righteousness is 2.
If I can not keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.
In this perspective, questions about grace and righteousness take on new urgency.
When you turn away from ultimate righteousness, what are you turning toward?
Nor is man constituted perfect through this infused righteousness.
We do not walk this path of love and righteousness under our own power.
Whatever it is, it has to develop righteousness.
The American desire to demonstrate national righteousness in dramatic actions, new laws and programs and a «quick fix» for human nature can hardly stand such a message.
When I feel the shadow of self - righteousness lurking, it requires a lot of energy to stop and take a breath — but that's what we all need to do.
I think to some degree he was also trying to say something to the religious leaders of His day about their own lack of inner righteousness.
But the call to a «higher righteousness» is nevertheless spoken of as easy.
No matter how much righteousness is on your side, it's best to refrain from boss - bashing to your potential new boss.
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