Sentences with phrase «righteous act»

This is a righteous act of reclamation, a Robin Hood-esque performance in which they'll steal from the corrupt and give back to... uh, themselves.

If we are all gods, then when one performs a righteous act, it may only prove (to someone like you), that that one person is a god.

It may well be a righteous act to be angry at God.

When pressed on this point, the Arminian finds it difficult to escape the conclusion that ultimately his salvation rests on some righteous act of the will he has performed (Sproul, Willing to Believe, 25 - 26).

Quite frankly any discussion about religious preferences adds to the eventual righteous act of violence in that religion's name.

Remember the Bible says that «All our righteous acts are like filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6)».

Our God is compassionate and full of grace and therefore will attend church at sit through our show - off righteous acts, even as He attends to those that need, Him more; the perishing.

In Isaiah 64:6, it says that from God's viewpoint, we are like one who has become unclean (that's the word for lepers), and all of our righteous acts are like filthy rags.

«All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags» Why?

Why are others righteous acts filthy?

@DaminanKnight — «All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags» Why?

I think it is pretty clear that Jesus teaches our righteous acts do not produce favor with God or help us avoid suffering.

Even righteous acts were worthless in God's sight if they were not motivated by love.

Isaiah states that even our righteous acts are as filthy rags (literal interpretation is menstrual rags).

Because people often perform righteous acts in an attempt to merit favor with God or to please and appease God.

Isaiah 64:6 also says that in God's eyes, even our righteous acts are like filthy rags.

It seems more likely that Isaiah is saying that that the righteous acts are especially filthy to God.

My argument stated that if righteous acts exist, God exists.

Set in New England circa 1630 (well before the Salem Witch Trials), The Witch takes us inside the challenging lives of a homesteading family, recently banished from the colony by the righteous acts of pious father William (Ralph Ineson).

Not exact matches

But rationalization acts like a drug to dull those bad feelings, enabling us not just to commit fraud but to feel righteous about having done so.

Maybe if you stopped acting so darn self righteous and made room for others you would be treated a bit better.

One acts righteous when they live in the light of the revelation of the truth of Jesus Christ!

You come in here and attack the author with a very personal character assassination and have the nerve to act all self righteous when he responds to your abusive bullying?

Not just Osama and his ilk, but all those who, under the cover of self - righteous religious piety, allowed their indifference and cowardice to empower acts of bloodshed against their brothers, sisters, and children.

its not really atheism or religion that I have a problem with, its the hate, control, and fear that goes along with it that I have a problem with, you say that those who are spiritual are into new agey, crystal ball, stuff, see that's what I'm talking about, you assume to know what something is about when you don't understand something you naturally fear it, your self righteous clouds you, don't you get that by being narrow minded in your view towards things, you really act no better than religious fundamentalists, being spiritual is a lot more than just the new agey, think positive all the time that you think it is, its about being aware of who you are?

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

Everyone whose commented on this acts so self - righteous because of their belief, but why?

So the theme of the «great surprise,» far from a rhetorical device as Stendahl terms it (7:794), is in fact the point of the passage: the righteous are commended precisely because they acted humanely without knowledge of Jesus» presence and therefore without the calculating attitude Matthew attributes to the Pharisees.

The holiness of God is the mystery of His ineffable being manifested to us as His glory, which includes His righteous and merciful acts to which we are to conform our own lives.

We try to point out the sin in all the non-religious people, while we sit back and try to act holy and righteous.

Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.

All you do is attack, make excuses, play the martyr (you probably don't know what that means) and act self - righteous.

To label someone a «sinner» reveals an «us vs. them» mentality, where you are the «righteous» person looking down your nose at the poor, wretched, ignorant «sinners» down below who just can not get their act together.

This scandalous and improper act mortified the self - righteous Pharisees.

In Charles Hartshorne's way of saying it, God is eternally and absolutely Love - in - act and is utterly faithful to righteous and caring purposes.

Religion, teaching and promoting hate, contempt or others, self - righteous anger and acting on it (OK by God) ignorance and that if you have religion you have rights but others who don't subscribe and submit to your religious authority, well then, it's ok to walk all over them, discipline them in the name of God, take away their rights and judge them.

I won't act self - righteous and hâteful like those despïcable people in the Westboro Baptist Church.

Grace can not be understood as habits and acts, and the Aristotelian notion that the repetition of good acts makes anyone who performs them righteous turns St. Paul's theology on its head.

Or to the opposite extreme of self - righteous religious zealots that for some warped reason assume they can conduct acts of violence in his name, whatever that may be.

In their quest for righteousness, they often become self righteous, using their belief system as a weapon, to bash over the heads of others, rather than as a tool to improve their own lives and to become a living example of what true christians should be like or what truly compassionate humans should be like, it's very sad, that so many christians don't have a clue how to act like decent people, and that they are hypocrites and full of hate.

God is righteous and loving Will, a doer of mighty deeds; history is a process, under his sovereign control, in which he performs decisive acts; the church is the chosen vehicle of his purpose — such is the New Testament's world view.

Often, when the term self - righteous is thrown around it is implied to mean someone who acts, thinks or believes they are better than you.

The righteous today don't need to know it either, unless they are Christian, in which case they will say that what they are doing is not only service, work, justified for this and that structural reason; it is also an act of unmasking, a looking for, a finding and a staying with Jesus.

And while technically your stance is more about standing up for the rights of other people to be racist and act accordingly, rather than whether or not you yourself wish to personally discriminate based on race, that doesn't make it any less racist or any more righteous either.

Sadly, too many «self - righteous» individuals want to decide how we will think, act, and behave and restrict anything they do not like.

Of course, there is just plain anger and there is a self - righteous anger that leads to vengeful acts.

It meant also, and more poignantly, that the act of redemption had taken place, that the price of sin had all been paid, and that sinners before and since could be justified and counted as righteous before God.

Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. is continuing to play his role of chief amigo defender and general thorn in the side of Senate Democratic leadership to the hilt, issuing a statement last night calling for an investigation of the man with the «self - righteous cowboy act who went after Hiram Monserrate.»

In the sermon, titled «The Image of Gold», the acting president said that a decision to stand by the truth always entail a level of discomfort or even outright persecution, but that God will always show up to justify the righteous.

Just watched Chris Huhne on SKY TV News acting all indignant and self - righteous and demanding the Tories pay back the money that Lord Ashcroft has donated - however the wind was then taken comprehensively out of his sails when the interviewer asked if the Lib Dems were going to pay back the # 2 million that their donor fraudster gave their party!