Sentence examples for were more righteous from inspiring English sources

"We thought we were more righteous: 'Honey, that's why they dress like that — because they don't have the fullness.' " Nearly all the Pentecostal gospel stars were COGIC; Andraé Crouch, who wrote "The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power," got his start with a singing group called the COGICs.

When was the last time you thought about any of these people without assuming, like the Pharisee, you were more righteous than them?

Each side feels intensely that its position is more righteous than the other side's.

It was a place, Trump implied, that was more righteous in its values — ones that aligned with his own.

He travelled around lobbying for his policies, racking his brains to help the rulers of his day with their problems, always trying to convince them to give up evil ways and be more righteous. . . .

Mr. Humphreys even anticipated the vehement denials of men who are outed: "The secret offender may well believe he is more righteous than the next man, hence his shock and outrage, his disbelieving indignation, when he is discovered and discredited".

I'm not surprised that the American evangelical movement is crumbling; its influence rests upon the distinctly un-American premise that a select few — the "saved" — are more righteous than everyone else.

In "Get Cha Issue" he insists that a gun-slinging crack dealer can be more righteous than hypocritical preachers, brutal policemen or politicians who voted for war in Iraq.

Jobs would argue that the Apple system is more righteous because users are served better, and Google would say the opposite.

Wouldn't it be more righteous to make common cause with the Tea Party against the warmongers?

There are those among us who are asserting that some religious beliefs are more righteous than others, that, perhaps, some shouldn't even be considered religions at all.