Sentence examples for righteous action from inspiring English sources

The two callings are inseparable, the calling to "prayer and righteous action", as Protestant martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer put it, writing from his prison cell in 1944.

In his second important play, Irydion (1836; Eng. trans. Irydion)—the story of a Greek named Irydion who seeks vengeance on imperial Rome Krasiński denies the validity of hatred as a source of righteous action.

The great fear, in a nation whose bursts of righteous action have often been spurred on by artful words, is that Trump might prove to be America's Chicken Little, the loudmouth who convinces us to tune out for good.

By Vinson Cunningham September 8, 2017 In a nation whose bursts of righteous action have often been spurred on by powerful rhetoric, the fear is that Trump might be the loudmouth who convinces us to tune out for good.

The regime's propaganda arm crowed that a blow had been struck against the "ill-famed cesspool of injustice" [ie, America], and added that North Korea "highly estimates the righteous action taken by the "Guardians of Peace" [as the hackers styled themselves], though it is not aware of their residence".The hack was ferocious.

It is no longer blood-relation but just and righteous action that determines family.

Women, in this film, are reduced to mere incitements for the wicked deeds and righteous actions of men.

Bin Laden's practice has been to praise acts of violence against the US and its allies in the Middle East as righteous actions, but to deny any hand in them and he did that through Arab newspapers in London last week.

The actions of a violent minority have for too long trumped the selfless and righteous actions of the moderate majority who do good in the name of Islam.

Leaders of the movement view the atonement as providing for the alleviation of sickness, poverty, and spiritual corruption; poverty and illness are cast as curses which can be broken by faith and righteous actions.

The protests tie us to a tradition of righteous collective action, and remind us that profound changes require actual fighting; that not everything can be achieved through consensus; and that the pathway to change is in building and channeling the power of the people who need the change.