#righteousness

The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion. ↗

— Marcus J. Borg

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A righteous husband is a responsible husband. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#male-female-relationships #marriage #religious #responsibility-to-protect #righteousness

It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of religious self-righteousness this article deplores is precisely the spirit in which it is written. Of course he's right about many things, one of them being the destructive potency of religious self-righteousness. (p. 146) ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#religion #self-righteousness #religion

Despite all claims to the contrary, we have not been called by God to be inspectors of others production or quality of 'fruit'. ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#r-alan-woods #self-righteousness #r-alan-woods

Put that in your self-righteous pipe and smoke it!!!. ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#presumptousness #r-alan-woods #self-righteousness #r-alan-woods

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations? ↗

— Tony Campolo

#asserted #concept #endures #freud #generations

But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#act #expecting #father #find #his

I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment. ↗

— Donald Cargill

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Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

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It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

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