Righteous Quotes
With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men and opinions a righteous abhorrence of sin.
The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.
The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of righteous rage.
The most powerful teaching a child will ever receive will come from concerned and righteous fathers and mothers.
I like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I'm not trying to get out of anything.
I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language.
"Rituals" don't make you righteous, it's uprightness: living up to moral principles and ethical principles, and submitting to universal law established by God.
If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.
The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.
Sometimes when we see or hear of a need, there is nothing we can do to help. Sometimes the only thing we can do is pray. But never underestimate the power of the prayers of the righteous.
No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.
I also feel like I've done plenty of wrong things. I'm not innocent here, and I'm certainly not going to be righteous about that.
Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.
Peace is the precious fruit of a righteous life. It is possible because of the Atonement of the Savior. It is earned through full repentance, for that leads to refreshing forgiveness.
By making choices consistent with eternal truth you will develop righteous character.
No enduring improvement can occur without righteous exercise of agency. Do not attempt to override agency. The Lord himself would not do that. Forced obedience yields no blessings.
I think every program needs to stand the sunshine of righteous scrutiny. Whether it's Social Security, whether it's Medicaid, whether it's Medicare.
The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.
The world isn't fair, but as long as it's tilting in my direction, I find that there's a natural cap to my righteous indignation.
Be a communicator, not a self-righteous proselytizer or preacher. Many people are only concerned with expressing themselves, which isn't necessarily communication.
The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.
Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.
I think that war is diplomacy. There have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons and there are wars that have had to be fought. Indeed, there will continue to be.
I do not stand here before you as a self-righteous saint who has achieved spiritual perfection, but as a sinner who has received Jesus into his heart as his Lord and Savior.
Home should be a haven of love. Honor, courtesy, and respect symbolize love and characterize the righteous family.
For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.
Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.
Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling piousand self- righteous while you starve small children!
Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.
Your religion is not what you do on Sunday. It is how you live Monday through Saturday.
Aye me, how many perils do enfoldThe righteous man, to make him daily fall?Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And steadfast truth acquite him out of all.
Let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight, ” says the LORD.
After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer and then armed robbery.
If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.
Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief
Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.