Righteous Quotes

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Socrates

Men, Divine, Souls

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Jesus Christ

Sick, Call, Healthy

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
Martin Luther

Fail, Actions, Virtuous

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

Men, Two, Kinds

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.
Mitt Romney

Life, Faith, Heart

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

Person, Wrong, Pours

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.
Horace

Water, Act, Foolish

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.
Christopher Hitchens

Boring, Problems, American

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.
Thomas S. Monson

Life, Friend, Decision

The gods behold all righteous actions.
Ovid

Actions, Gods, Behold

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
Beverly Sills

Life, God, Anger

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
William Jennings Bryan

Humanity, Liberty, Between

The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.
William Jennings Bryan

Stronger, Cause, Land

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
John Foster Dulles

Faith, Peace, Men

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
James Bryce

Patriotism, Strong, Country

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.
Anna Quindlen

Freedom, Words, Understand

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.
James Otis

Time, God, Hope

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).
Julie Burchill

Women, Bad, Enough

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

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.
Bette Midler

Good, Enough, Everyone

I like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I'm not trying to get out of anything.
Lil' Kim

Live, Trying, Everyone

Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.
Martin Landau

Work, Bad, Thought

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
Ivan Turgenev

Great, Alone, Powerful

I think I was righteous. I saw myself as the good guy in my own movie. I didn't get into many fights when I was younger, but when I did, they were righteous. I always thought I was defending something good. I fought for friends who couldn't fight for themselves. I was still being selfish and arrogant, but I was focused on what was fair and unfair.
Jo Nesbo

Good, Selfish, Fight

Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one.
Theodor Herzl

Today, Regret, Able

This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words.
Joseph Butler

Death, Mind, End

I don't know if I'm so righteous.
Jessica Brown Findlay

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
Nikolai Gogol

Same, Profitable

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

God, Theatre, Kingdom

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.
Christopher Love

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