Sentences with phrase «ultimate righteousness»
When you turn away from ultimate righteousness, what are you turning toward?
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Freedom also means liberation from pursuit, acquisition, accumulation and hoarding of wealth (arta), unbridled enjoyment of pleasures comfort (kama), without being regulated and governed by righteousness and justice (dharma), without orientation to the ultimate goal (moksha).23
It carried to fulfillment a long development of thought, disentangling persons from submergence in the social mass and giving to each one status, meaning, and rights of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value of personality and its possibilities; it created a religion to be entered by free personal choice, regardless of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship for the redemption of souls; and it proclaimed as the ultimate goal of divine creation and human hope the kingdom of God in «new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»
Moreover, so long as self - righteousness is judged to be a moral state deriving from an isolated and autonomous individual, there lies no way to a comprehension of its ultimate ground and its universal consequences.
Indeed, it has all the markings of an oppressive orthodoxy — a single ultimate value, inordinate certitude of its righteousness, and a desire to «penetrate into hearts and minds» to purify beliefs and motives.
The ultimate imperative of the Gospel is, «Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.»
Moral goodness can not be described in terms more complete or exalted than Jesus used in his most characteristic teaching: it is the ultimate, the absolute righteousness, the righteousness of God.
At other times, apocalypticists have justified slaughter and mayhem in the name of the coming of ultimate justice and righteousness.
Nevertheless, the old phrasing of this ultimate vindication of righteousness is often terribly present in the New Testament.
Buddhism says, Crush your desires; Christianity says, Elevate and intensify your desires, for the goal is not nirvana, but a kingdom of righteousness, and an ultimate triumph of the eternal purpose which God purposed in Christ.
Because the ultimate power is that of love, one is drawn to work for righteousness and to temper with love one's understanding of justice.
Finally, observe the two remarkable passages, 9:2 - 7 and 11:1 - 9 (which very well may be Isaianic, despite considerable adverse critical judgment), looking forward to the ultimate fulfillment of the David - Zion covenant (for Isaiah, the covenant) in a Messiah, an «anointed one,» in and through whose rule «the zeal of Yahweh of hosts» (9:7) will effect justice and righteousness (in the theologically dependent sense) not only in Israel but in all the earth (11:4 - 9).
Just as within the context of Whitehead's philosophy one can and must go beyond righteousness as the ultimate norm for conduct, so also one can and must go beyond beauty and strength of beauty as the ultimate value.
He is alive and his cross has become the source and symbol of the ultimate triumph of goodness over evil, courage over fear, love over righteousness.
The central emphases of classical prophetism are lacking — the passionate address to the contemporary life of the covenant nation; the cry for justice and righteousness in the theological ethic; and the consuming concern for ultimate meaning in the events of history.
However it might be explained, God was known there as holy love, moving to penitence and offering both pardon and a new righteousness, and becoming himself, as thus known, the ground of faith in the ultimate meaning of life and of hope of its fulfillment.