Righteous Quotes

Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

The righteous one has no sense of humor.

I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

... my daughter McKenna thought I sang with the Everly Brothers ... I said, 'no I was one of the Righteous Brothers' and she said 'didn't they invent the airplane?'

The lips of the righteous teach many, but fools die for want of wisdom.

Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.

Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.

It's a real smug self-righteous punk kid saying nobody has the right to tell him what to do and how dare you put a sign up saying that I can't go on your property?

People united in pursuit of a righteous cause are unstoppable

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

Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.

Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.

We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.

Take those kids and raise them up, teach them how to drink out of a righteous cup.

Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.

We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven

Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).

Peace is a blessing that comes to those who trust in God. It is established through individual righteousness. True personal peace comes about through eternal vigilance and constant righteous efforts.

The Holy Koran, our religious book, teaches us, that we who declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims, do not participate in no wars, in no way, fashion or form, that take the lives of other humans.

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.

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

It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable.

When you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged", a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.

This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.

Righteous people have no sense of humor.

Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

God declared me righteous!

There's no fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.

All things come alike to all; there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not.

To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in proper focus.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does right, but loves to do right.

You've got nothing to worry about. The righteous do not always right, but their souls remain pure. -Lassiter the Angel

Dyan Favre, Brett's nephew, is also a gem. Not just a favorite person from the book - a favorite person, period. I actually wound up writing this about him. Simply a good, righteous man.

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

We are accountable for our actions as we exercise our moral agency. If we understand this principle and make righteous choices, our lives will be blessed.

Brigham Young observed, "Man's machinery makes things alike" (JD 9:370), while God gives to seemingly like individuals pleasing differences. Secularism is no friend of righteous individuality.

I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.

Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the court.

O time! whose verdicts mock our own, the only righteous judge art thou!

We must reacquaint ourselves with the biblical weight of the problem that we less-than-perfect human beings contend with in the face of a holy and righteous God.

Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.