Righteous Quotes

Righteous Quote of the day

When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

I'd rather make one righteous dollar on my level Than make a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil.

For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those that do evil.

We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each.

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.

Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.

The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.

Whoever raises a righteous child, it is as if he did not die.

If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves ?Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here ?Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change ?

I hope you get a message of love and to continue the love and continue the spirit that I'm trying to transmit to you in a righteous sense to be in one unity. Rastafari!

Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.

The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven.

Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.

The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

A righteous wife can make a poor man feel like a king.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.

The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.

It's hard not to empathize with the mayor's anger, given the injustices he'd suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy.

Happiness is a condition of the soul. This joyous state comes as a result of righteous living.

Me can't be prejudice. Me can't me no think of life that way. Because, me figure if you prejudice, that mean you have a hate. If you have a hate inside of you, you can't be righteous.

Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.

The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair

Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage.

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.

Righteous women have changed the course of history and will continue to do so, and their influence will spread and grow exponentially throughout the eternities.

The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.

What I'm trying to do is be righteous. And when I say “righteous,” I don't mean God. You know? God- Righteous. I mean just when I wake up, I know I was honest to myself.

Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.

It's more important to be righteous than to be right.

To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought is terrifying.

The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.

The self-righteous never apologize.

I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding - no frills, down to the bone and intense.

. . . it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.

Success does not come to the most righteous and rigorously disciplined but to those who continue running.

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.

Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?.

By the end of the war, I could pick out Jewish people almost as if I had a sixth sense about it, even if they had blue eyes and blond hair. I would have been a very valuable Gestapo person.