Sentence examples for be righteous in from inspiring English sources

The proper response to financial sin is not through buying indulgences, but through repentance, faith in the tenets of financial stability and good works: pay down the debt, be righteous in your public finances, restrain the lust for higher wages and curb the greed of moneylenders.

They had to be righteous in spite of it".

Yet, many people go through a time of deep disillusionment, recognizing that a spiritual leader, who may have appeared to be righteous in public, was competitive and undermining in private.

"It's easy with the world that we live in to be righteous in your opinion or headlines or soundbites or memes of the extreme left or the extreme right," she said.

LeMond and some friends were righteous in their rage and suspicion.

It is also possible that Mr. Putin is righteous in his defense of law and order.

But while the scene may have been righteous in theory, in practice it was jarring, and slightly incoherent, particularly since it included the creamy nudity we've come to expect as visual dessert.

His father, a factory worker and a preacher — "he was righteous in the pulpit," Baldwin said, "and a monster in the house" — had died insane, poisoned with racial bitterness.

And we are righteous in our beliefs that we have the answers.

"The LORD is righteous in all his [own] ways and loving toward all he has made".

There is righteous anger in this movie, and also an arresting, moody lyricism.