Best 90 quotes in «righteous quotes» category

Politics is /all/ emotion-- hating the other side, valorizing your own, propping up your own identity. I'm right, I'm righteous, I /care/. No one can stand to admit they're as compromised and clueless as everyone else. People decide something /feels/ right, then they warp all their thinking around that.

Rejecting people for who and what they are will not make you a better, more 'righteous' or more 'moral' person - than the other person, or even in your own right - in fact, if that's why you're doing it, it is far more likely to do the opposite.

Righteousness is of God, the righteous Ruler.

Stark truth, is seldom met with open arms.

The devil hates the people who build the broken walls, he detests those who restore them

The grace of redemption is the gift of a RIghteous God.

The holy God proved holy by his righteous acts.

The Kingdom of God is about peace, love, joy and righteousness

The primary goal of a righteous parent who has a daughter is to minimize the number of boys and men for whom their daughter will have willingly opened her legs come her wedding day; the closer to zero, the more righteous they will seem.

The Psalms draw a hard and fast distinction between the righteous and the wicked, something that is not appreciated in a period of religious syncretism.

The righteous will claim sole domain on judgement. The righteous are the first to make hands into fists, the first to shout down dissenters, the first to bully others into compliance.

Righteous faith is to do what is right.

Start seeing yourself as God sees you, see yourself through God’s eyes

The best of knowledge and righteous acts are those hidden to the people.

The Holy God performs righteous acts.

The longer we live, the wiser, happier & healthier we are! Alleluia! Amen!

The Lord God, the Righteous Saviour

The righteous shall rejoice.

Too many disciples neglect their thorn-like qualities. For instance: Opting for singleness doesn't count if you can't attract a mate. Patience doesn't count if you are too cowardly to defend what is right. Forgiveness doesn't count if the offender never respected you enough to ask for it. Don't label your character flaws as noble sacrifices. pg 47

To reject the word of God is to rebel against righteous life.

When someone is angry and hateful toward you ~ they spit out all kinds of venom, to inflict you with unnecessary hurt and pain. But when you know who you are within, and you stand by your truth, their venom cannot poison you, its arrow turns and points straight back at them! To be humble and virtuous is a trait of the noble and the righteous

(Thinking while being interrogated by the Germans) You big shots think you can decide on my life, but I have news for you: you can't touch a hair on my head without the will of God my Father, because He is on my side.

Think of righteousness as living inside of, instead of up to, God’s standard for the right life. The welfare of you, your community, and your relationship with God are central to living righteousness.

Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me.

God has nothing to say to the self-righteous.

Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many wicked.

Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.

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.

Grace is inviting to the unrighteous and threatening to the self-righteous

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

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

God is righteous in making the sinner righteous.

In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.

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

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

I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain.

If there be one righteous person, the rain falls for his sake.

Nations, as well as individuals, must be virtuous and righteous if they desire to be stable, prosperous, and tranquil.

most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence.

Righteous people have no sense of humor.

Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others

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.

Self-righteous victims invite extra nails.

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

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

Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend.

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.

That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.