Sentence examples for A righteousness from inspiring English sources

Yet his complaining had a righteousness about it.

I think they're trying to make this "hate" thing — I guess to bring a righteousness, or a self-righteousness.

Clement of Alexandria, a second-century theologian, regarded posthumous salvation as a logical possibility: "God being good, and the Lord powerful, they save with a righteousness and equality which extend to all that turn to Him, whether here or elsewhere".

This gave them a "righteousness" in their actions, observed Bacon.

In the New Testament, Jesus acknowledged their validity and instructed his disciples to go further, demanding a righteousness exceeding that of the scribes and Pharisees.

I hope that something in this note may be useful to many of the others emotionally abandoned or victimized by a righteousness that has lost its bearings.

Staring at the crowd, he quoted the Hebrew Bible, his fist punctuating nearly every word: "Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream".

There's a presumed righteousness to it – a notion that the knocks are deserved.

Such a call to fulfill all righteousness necessitates a response to our nation's poverty crisis.

("Justice will flow down like a river and righteousness a mighty stream").

This combination of sentiments tends to make people glow with a pleasant righteousness, especially when the implicit subject is crossing a racial divide.