Righteous Quotes

Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

A righteous person is one who lives for the next generation.

He didn't mind if she hated him. They were never going to be a cute romantic couple like Sam and Astrid. Clean-cut, righteous, all that. The perfect couple. He and Diana were the imperfect couple.

Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?

Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.

When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil.

Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing.

There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.

intensity is a law of prayer. God is found by those who seek Him with all their heart. Wrestling prayer prevails. The fervent effectual prayer of the righteous is of great force.

Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.

We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.

Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.

The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.

Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence.

Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.

Those who are self-righteous are not prominent.

The righteous ones are always exhausting to have around.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody has to stop being so excited, which I find so distasteful.

I felt peace, even though I was still scared to death. I thought that, whatever would happen to me - I could still be killed. I didn't know - and in what I'd already been through, God was in control.

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

The Republicans have a high Beady-Eyed Self-Righteous Scary Borderline Loon Quotient, as evidenced by Phyllis Schlafly, Pat Robertson, the entire state of Utah, etc.

Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.

Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.

If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.

Leaders need to cultivate two things: a righteous heart and a rhinoceros skin.

Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.

But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.

No other work transcends that of righteous, intentional parenting.

We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.

One of the best ways to celebrate righteous history is to make more of it, make more righteous history!

In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.

God will not pity them, but “laugh at their calamity.” The blessed company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's righteous judgment, and sing while the smoke riseth up for ever.

There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.

The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness.

All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

One needs to be right before getting righteous.

Even with the trials of life, because of the Savior's Atonement and his grace, righteous living will be rewarded with personal peace.

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

To me it was real war and my life was at stake, and I believe that all those clandestine spy games we played as children helped when the Occupation came.

How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.

The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [Lat., Di pia facta vident.]

Self-righteous and entitled but they swearin' on the Bible that they love you When really they no different from all your rivals.

I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.