Sentence examples for standards of righteousness from inspiring English sources

All rituals and standards of righteousness are sheng (generated, produced) by the sages.

In contrast, "...ritual and the standards of righteousness are produced from the deliberate effort of the sage... ...... (ibid).

To avoid these consequences of indulging our spontaneous desires and impulses, it takes wei (conscious activity or deliberate effort), models and teaching, and guidance through observing ritual and yi (standards of righteousness).

Just as the vessel made by a potter is generated from his conscious activity and not his original nature, so the sages accumulated their thoughts and ideas and made a practice of conscious activity and precedents, thereby generating rituals and standards of righteousness.

Wasn't the difference between Muslims and atheists that they had a standard of righteousness?

The Mohists could apply their basic standard of righteousness — what "promotes benefit to and eliminates harm from the world" — as a criterion by which to justify a social dao (way), or set of practices and norms, that best promotes everyone's welfare.

The Bible says that all of us have sinned and fall short of God's standard of righteousness.

Many of the better attitudes called "right attitudes" to to are needed to become good conservatives who uphold the standard of righteousness.

He has given the standard of righteousness; and if you have broken any of God's commandments, then you have fallen short of that standard and are under the inevitable judgment of God (1 John 3 4; Isaiah 59 2; Rom. 6 23).

According to the later Mohist texts, where this doctrine of equal care but different treatment is presented explicitly, our treatment of others will be guided by standards of yi (righteousness), which probably articulate practices the Mohists think best promote the welfare of everyone in society.

Can it be without milk?'"...That is, while acknowledging China's legal system as very much an instrument of rule, Xi's constitutional language goes far towards building a consensus that what China has is "law without rights" (i.e., law that may gradually have rights mixed into it) rather than law whose missing quotient is some specific Party standard of ideological righteousness (as in the past).