Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Righteousness is easy in retrospect.
In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous.
To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
When you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous.
What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.
The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.
For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.
When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.
Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.
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