The self -
righteousness of the great powers will resist efforts at greater justice.
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.
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?
She adapted mainstream advertisements and transformed them into positive messages of love and
social righteousness.
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.
Rather, it was used when something or someone had been set apart, regardless of the question of
personal righteousness.
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.
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.
No matter how
much righteousness is on your side, it's best to refrain from boss - bashing to your potential new boss.