Sentence examples for their righteousness from inspiring English sources

I connect their righteousness with the gift from Jesus".

ReprintsChina's Communist bosses rely on Maoist notions of ethical leadership and, implicitly, on a Confucian mandate supposedly bestowed by heaven for their righteousness.

Charles Marsh concludes ("Wayward Christian Soldiers"), "The Hebrew prophets might call us to repentance, but repentance is a tough demand for a people utterly convinced of their righteousness".

(One supposes that their inability to retain the correct name of the man who made the so-called dirty pictures is a symbol of their righteousness).

As young men, Mr. Qaid said, he and his fellow Islamists had sometimes been overconfident in their "righteousness" and too ready to impose it on others, and they did not listen to the debates among older Muslim scholars.

More honorably, if not necessarily more accurately, we imagine our predecessors as nobler and braver than our small and anxious selves — as men and women who stuck up for principle and, by their righteousness, moved the world.

Surrounded by their certainty, their food, their self-righteousness and their minivans.

Newly crowned kings of Babylon would make public declarations of their own righteousness when beginning their reigns, often in the form of declarations that were deposited in the foundations of public buildings.

The worlds of religion and psychology both have their self righteousness and certainty in their position.

Probably the kindest thing you can say about anti-GM protesters is that they rarely allow their ignorance to restrain their outraged righteousness.

Perhaps, if these authorities consider the human dimension of their actions, their self-righteousness will pierce them to the core.