Sentence examples for human righteousness from inspiring English sources

We have no more reason to think that God's righteousness resembles human righteousness than we have to think that his benevolence resembles human benevolence.

In 1517, in his Paraphrase of Romans, while admitting that inherent human righteousness, in comparison with the action of grace, "seems like nothing at all," Erasmus contended that nevertheless "some part of it depends on our own will or effort".

Government could secure human righteousness, but it could not make man righteous before God.

Human righteousness (or the "outward man") was the domain of the magistrate or government.

Our apprehension is extreme: while a small number of animal species display occasional viciousness, their aggression is nowhere near the scale of human righteousness, warfare or terrorism.

His theocratic views are best expressed in Divine and Human Righteousness (1523) and An Exposition of the Articles (1523) in that both preacher and prince were servants under the rule of God.

For example, the gods judged humans' moral righteousness after death, and by the New Kingdom, a verdict of innocence in this judgment was believed to be necessary for admittance into the afterlife.

The relationship between preacher and magistrate was demonstrated by two forms of righteousness, human and divine.

Second, the work of politics is severed from the task of building good human lives, lives of righteousness and justice.

After reading it, you don't know whether to despair at the callousness and self-righteousness of human beings, or to wonder at their resilience and creativity.

But being right and taking a position of self-righteousness in human relations are two very different matters, for one simply states facts while the other lords it over others.