Sentences with phrase «righteous actions»

Others sometimes find our dutiful and righteous actions oppressive.

Fact: Fundamentalist Atheism is a religion that associates itself with science in a fallacious manner to glean scientific credibility so that it may rationalize self righteous actions.

It is perhaps a proof of our union with God, beyond our righteous actions, that we share in such joy celebrated in heaven.

It can not be responsible for the occurrence of particular emotions, only for channeling them into righteous action.

Our earlier words are therefore bound to lose their force and cease, and our being Christians today will be limited to two things: prayer and righteous action among man.5

But if you are flexible — that is, willing to let go of the end result — aligning your goals and true purpose with the greater good is righteous action.

Many people who represent themselves in a criminal cases do so because they want to proudly claim that they committed the crime as a means of obtaining of forum for public recognition of what they believe was righteous action even if this could lead to their death.

Not exact matches

If such a thing existed, «righteous» or «unrighteous,» then the corrext labeling process would explore the morality of the actions between differing social groups.

If you love your neighbor as yourself and prove it by your actions then you are righteous.

Equality of opportunity was passé; racial quotas masqueraded under the euphemism of «affirmative action»; King's righteous demand that his children be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin was inverted by race - hustlers and shakedown artists» an inversion subsequently validated by activist judges.

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.

When people do not / or refuse to read, comprehend and apply Jesus» teachings to their lives they CAN produce unrighteous decisions to their thinking / beliefs, writings, actions producing either righteous or unrighteous actions.

In great areas of human action man's refusal to accept his finiteness makes him proud, self - righteous, and in rebellion against God; man's selfishness makes him refuse to use his freedom with love toward his fellow men.

The critical point to remember is that neither the reception of eternal life, nor the declaration of righteousness actually makes one righteous in all their thoughts, actions, and behaviors.

In effect, then, the call to Jesus» yoke is a call to imitate the action of the righteous in the judgment - pericope, Mt. 25:31 - 46 (11:24).

He does what is righteous and just, but not only are his actions overlooked and forgotten, instead, his enemy Haman sets out to destroy him, and not only him, but all of Mordecai's race, the Jewish people.

A man of a live conscience is in the straight path of righteous and the straight path of righteous is the path of men of God who love and fear their God most in every decision or action or words been said and committed...!!

Now, what a child of God does with His truth, is up to them (free will), but everyone needs to know that your soul depends on knowing His truth by reading the Bible, comprehending it, and then abiding (applying) His truth to their lives to produce His righteous truth in all thoughts / beliefs, writings, actions as He instructs us to live while house in human form.

As the forceful but measured actions of the United States since September 11 make clear, righteous anger, properly tempered by reason and law, can serve the cause of goodness and justice, and even put a stop to the «cycle of violence.»

Bultmann's emphasis on existential decision has the eternal and righteous God demanding this decision; it has the critical need of human response, though in a personal rather than social action framework; it has the apocalyptic passages not to be taken literally but as reinforcing the urgency of decision.

Yes, God even sent signs and miracles to Israel when they slaughtered the Canaanites showing that such actions were righteous and divinely ordained.»

God as love - in - action is more than any particular expression of His love (hence He is transcendent); God as love - in - action is always available (hence He is onmipresent); God as love - in - action is able to envisage every situation in its deepest and truest reality and accommodate Himself to it, so that He can indeed achieve His loving ends (hence He is omniscient and omnipotent); God as love - inaction is unswerving in His love, unfailing in its expression, unyielding in His desire to confront men with the demands of love (hence He is righteous).

We need righteous anger to push us toward action.

Now whoever understands here the actions of this poor woman and catches God in his own judgment, and says: Lord, it is true, I am a sinner and not worthy of thy grace; but still thou hast promised sinners forgiveness, and thou art come not to call the righteous, but, as St. Paul says in I Tim 1, 15, «to save sinners.»

Too often, self - righteous religious leaders use their power to promote actions that go against the core values of their religion and religious texts.

I agree that love should be supplemented by action, and even righteous anger, to achieve certain goals.

An unkind remark made to a friend, for example, may be rationalized on the ground that it is «just being honest»; an inhibited sex life may be rationalized as self - control; an aggressor nation can be self - righteous if its actions are justified in the name of national security, self - defense or the preservation of freedom.

Although Christ was filled with the form of God and rich in all good things, so that he needed no work and suffering to make him righteous and saved (for he had all this eternally), yet he was not puffed up by them and did not exalt himself above us and assume power over us, although he could rightly have done so; but, on the contrary, he so lived, laboured, worked, suffered, and died that he might be like other men and in fashion and in actions be nothing else than a man, just as if he had need of all these things and had nothing of the form of God.

Tears of compassion, righteous anger, shared joy - all are sources of power; fourthly, Mary, woman of power, pondered God's actions in her life, taking account of her son, her kinfolk, and her community.

As to why this happened, G - D said that the people of the earth in that time were evil, so much so that they continually had evil thoughts and performed evil actions without any righteous thoughts or actions, whatsoever.

We have learned from the Enlightenment and its Marxist negative image some bad lessons: a self - righteous view of human nature, individual or collective, a good - evil dichotomy in our judgment on others and in our social action, a shallow sense of human community, and an exaggerated confidence in the power of human beings to manage and control their own destinies.

If we are to display righteous indignation it should be at the fact that not one Wall Street banker a the center of this mess has been held accountable for their actions in a court of law.

And it is a confrontation, for as long as the reign of God is equated with perfectibility we can think that we can be part of the action if only we are righteous enough.

Even Judah acknowledged that Tamar's actions were «righteous.»

If, on the other hand, «faith» means a deep - set trust that plays out in our actions, then this book is simply more motivation to reach out with Jesus» message... If proper theology is directly related to your eternal destiny you have a righteous fight on your hands.

Keep your self - righteous voodoo ceremonies to yourself and think about how even more messed up the world would be if every country let religion dictate its actions.

Another self - righteous hypocrite whose words mean s ** t because they are betrayed by his actions.

In Iran's view, it probably sees its actions as legitimate for reasons along the lines of the way that the original question here is formulated, although this is not a terribly righteous and clear conclusion.

, i.e., is it okay to aggressively infringe on a speaker's first amendment rights if the perceived speech is dissident and «not politically correct» and, is that infringement defensible if the corrective action taken is perceived as in itself being righteous because it is «politically correct» to do so.

Self - righteous, reckless, rude manners, and they do everything to harass you with really brutal actions.

He wants to lead the righteous civil liberties mob against the right perpetrators while providing an appreciative moral context to the actions of Edward Snowden, America's most famous fugitive.

Like the rather grander Schindler, he ends up risking his life protecting them, a courageous action for which he was posthumously honoured by Israel as a «righteous gentile».

Lacking the righteous certainty bred into action stars such as Tom Cruise, his is not a particularly reassuring presence, which makes him interesting.

That cast was wonderful, as the fun was balanced with the hero's righteous indignation and the plethora of action.

When he starts asking deeper questions about American surveillance, the questions are morally righteous but there's never really a debate here about Snowden's actions or questions about what was the turning point for him.

Nevertheless, Harry's actions are continuously depicted as justifiable and the conclusion of the film leaves no doubt that the filmmakers want us to feel that his actions are righteous and worthy of vindication.

More specifically, it's about how the eponymous character, a former rebel soldier, reacts to the presence of that gang — apathetic at first, since he has seen worse in his homeland, but quickly rising to righteous anger when the gang's actions directly affect him and the people he sees as his family.

RUSH HOUR It's a righteous title for an action comedy, but that's just the beginning.

He deftly pivots between the moments of mourning and the righteous wrath of Quan, following in the footsteps of other action movie elder statesmen like Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson and Liam Neeson.

The stats on human trafficking are shameless window - dressing, a righteous premise for ass - whoopings more than a sincere appeal to the slumbering consciences of the action faithful.