quotes about Righteous
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...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
-- Abraham Verghese -
The righteous ones are always exhausting to have around.
-- Alexandra AdornettoSource : Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.124, Macmillan
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I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.
-- Ally Condie -
Success does not come to the most righteous and rigorously disciplined but to those who continue running.
-- Amby Burfoot -
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The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you're right, you're still left feeling indignant.
-- Bill Crawford -
The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.
-- Bill Medley -
I won't be righteous again. I'm not sure anymore.
-- Billy Joel -
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
-- Clarence Darrow -
If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.
-- Clement of Alexandria -
To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.
-- Criss Jami -
No fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.
-- Don Paterson -
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You must never underestimate the power of your righteous influence.
-- Elaine S. DaltonSource : FaceBook post by Jack Black from Apr 25, 2014
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Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others
-- Elbert Hubbard -
Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.
-- Eric Jerome Dickey -
Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton -
Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend.
-- Homer -
A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence.
-- Howard W. Hunter -
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.
-- Jane Addams -
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I don't know if I'm so righteous.
-- Jessica Brown FindlaySource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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God is righteous in making the sinner righteous.
-- Joseph Prince -
Well how can a holy, just, righteous God allow sin into His presence?
-- Josh McDowell -
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.
-- Julie B. Beck -
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It's more important to be righteous than to be right.
-- Lauryn Hill -
I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language.
-- Lionel Trilling -
We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.
-- Maimonides -
An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.
-- Malcolm Muggeridge -
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The Gospel declares those who believe righteous and saved.
-- Martin Chemnitz -
I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.
-- Moses Coady -
It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
-- Nikolai Gogol -
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The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [Lat., Di pia facta vident.]
-- Ovid -
What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.
-- Pauline Kael -
Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
-- PindarSource : "The Odes and Selected Fragments" by Pindar. Fragment 159; p. 387, 1997.
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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
-- Plutarch -
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The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.
-- R. C. Sproul -
Whoever raises a righteous child, it is as if he did not die.
-- Rashi -
Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed,
-- Ravi Zacharias -
No other work transcends that of righteous, intentional parenting.
-- Russell M. Nelson -
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The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.
-- Sheri S. TepperSource : "The Visitor". Book by Sheri S. Tepper, 2002.
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...the most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages...
-- Theodore Roosevelt -
No one can tell what is righteous and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
-- Tsugumi Ohba -
most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.
-- Vera Brittain -
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
-- Walter Darby Bannard -
History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
-- Wole Soyinka -
Nations, as well as individuals, must be virtuous and righteous if they desire to be stable, prosperous, and tranquil.
-- Daniel L DreisbachSource : Source: www.biblegateway.com
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I like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I'm not trying to get out of anything.
-- Lil' Kim -
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When you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous.
-- Shaquille O'Neal -
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.
-- Paula BroadwellSource : Source: www.vanityfair.com