Righteous Man Quotes:

Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents—Adam and Eve. They labored together; they had children together; they prayed together; and they taught their children the gospel together. This is the pattern God would have all righteous men and women imitate.

- Ezra Taft Benson

source: "The Honored Place of Woman". Ezra Taft Benson's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 1981.

topic: Children, Men, Righteous Man, Eternal Marriage

The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5116, e-artnow

topic: Men, Righteous Man, Hands

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.

- Primo Levi

source: "The Drowned and the Saved". Book by Primo Levi, 1986.

topic: War, Men, Righteous Man

You listen to the mind, you become miserable - otherwise, this today is paradise! And there is no other paradise, this today is nirvana. If you had not listened to the mind... just don't listen to the mind, then you are not in misery; because misery cannot exist without expectations and without hopes. And when misery exists you need more hopes for it, to hide it, to live somehow. Live hopelessly - then you are a righteous man, then you are retired.

- Rajneesh

topic: Men, Righteous Man, Expectations

We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that it consists in the remission of sins and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness.

- John Calvin

source: John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.425, Oxford University Press

topic: Acceptance, Men, Righteous Man, Remission

Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

topic: Men, Righteous Man, Affair

In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

topic: Men, Righteous Man, Order

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.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.159, Princeton University Press

topic: Fear, Men, Righteous Man

The government of heaven, if wickedly administered, would become one of the worst governments upon the face of the earth. No matter how good a government is, unless it is administered by righteous men, an evil government will be made of it.

- Brigham Young

topic: Men, Righteous Man, Evil, Evil Government

And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my fingers upon thee!

- Quentin Tarantino

topic: Brother, Anger, Names, Ak 47, Quoting Movies

Because of his sinless life, Jesus walked in perfect dominion. God did whatever he asked, NOT because he was God's son, but because he held the position of a righteous man. But that was Jesus, you say. But the Bible says that through our believing on Him, we have been given the same position of righteousness with God that Jesus has.

- Kenneth Copeland

topic: Jesus, Believe, Son, Righteous Man

The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.

- Solomon

topic: Fathers Day, Children, Integrity, Christian Fathers Day, Righteous Man

Because the path of the righteous man was never supposed to be easy,' I whispered. 'Those who are chosen by the Lord are given a hard journey. The rewards will come later.

- Alexandra Adornetto

source: "Fictional character: Jules". "Pulp Fiction", www.imdb.com. 1994.

topic: Men, Journey, Path, Righteous Man, Hard Journey

Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.

- Eric Jerome Dickey

topic: Men, Sin, Righteous, Righteous Man

Time is the best preserver of righteous men.

- Pindar

source: "The Odes and Selected Fragments" by Pindar. Fragment 159; p. 387, 1997.

topic: Men, Righteous, Righteous Man

Who is righteous? Anyone who is repenting. No matter how bad he has been, if he is repenting he is a righteous man. There is hope for him. And no matter how good he has been all his life, if he is not repenting, he is a wicked man. The difference is which way you are facing. The man on the top of the stairs facing down if much worse off than the man on the bottom step who is facing up. The direction we are facing, that is repentance; and that is what determines whether we are good or bad.

- Hugh Nibley

source: Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

topic: Men, Differences, Wicked, Wicked Man, Righteous Man

The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.

- F. F. Bruce

topic: Men, Ideas, World, Righteous Man

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

- Euripides

topic: Character, Men, Wealth, Righteous Man

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides By the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, Shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger Those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

- Quentin Tarantino

source: "Fictional character: Jules". "Pulp Fiction", www.imdb.com. 1994.

topic: Brother, Children, Selfish, Ak 47, Pulp

A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

- Solomon

topic: Fathers Day, Lying, Hate, Righteous Man

The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference.

- David Jeremiah

topic: Prayer, Humble, Men, Praying To God, Fervent Prayer

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

topic: Men, Charity, Righteous, Righteous Man

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

- Edmund Spenser

topic: Fall, Men, Temptation, Faerie, Righteous Man

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Men, Swamps, Woods, Righteous Man

The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.

- Clement of Alexandria

topic: Kings, Men, Coins, Righteous Man

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.

- Jeff Pearlman

source: Source: lombardiave.com

topic: Book, Writing, Men, Favorite Person, Righteous Man

The real issue lies in the North beyond the Wall. Stannis becomes one of the few characters fully to understand that, which is why in spite of everything he is a righteous man.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Wall, Real, Lying, Stannis, Righteous Man

... if a man prays God for some virtue, and at the same time gives himself up to negligence, acquiring no definite means to gain this virtue, and making no effort towards it, truly this man tempts God, rather than prays. Thus the divine James says: 'The effectual prayer of a righteous man avails much' (Jms. 5:16). What avails to make prayer effective? is when, besides begging a saint to pray for him about something, the man also prays about it himself and with all diligence does everything necessary for obtaining his request.

- Lorenzo Scupoli

topic: Christian, Prayer, Mean, Negligence, Obtaining

Called to the throne of my fathers, I have taken over the government, looking to the King of all kings, and have vowed to God, following the example of my father, to be a righteous and gentle prince, to foster piety and the fear of God, to maintain peace, to further the welfare of the country, to be a help to the poor and oppressed, and to be to the righteous man a true protector.

- Wilhelm II

topic: Country, Kings, Father, Righteous Man

It may here be observed, that all who are offended by us are exposed to our view. But the rich man sees Lazarus not with any other righteous man, but in Abraham's bosom. For Abraham was full of love, but the man is convicted of cruelty. Abraham sitting before his door followed after those that passed by, and brought them into his house, the other turned away even them that abode within his gate.

- Saint John Chrysostom

topic: Men, Doors, Views, Lazarus, Righteous Man

I'm not a righteous man. People put me up on a pedestal that I don't belong in my personal life. And they think that I'm better than I am. I'm not the good man that people think I am. Newspapers and magazines and television have made me out to be a saint. I'm not. I'm not a Mother Teresa. And I feel that very much.

- Billy Graham

source: "Tony Snow Interviews Billy Graham". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.deceptioninthechurch.com. January 2, 2000.

topic: Mother, Men, Thinking, Teresa, Righteous Man

The bible teaches that a father may sell his daughter for a slave, that he may sacrifice her purity to a mob, and that he may murder her, and still be a good father and a holy man. It teaches that a man may have any number of wives; that he may sell them, give them away, or swap them around, and still be a perfect gentleman, a good husband, a righteous man, and one of God's most intimate friends; and that is a pretty good position for a beginning.

- Helen H. Gardener

topic: Daughter, Husband, Father, Good Husband, Perfect Gentleman

In the case of man, righteousness is adjustment to God, and an articulation with man based upon that adjustment. Are you a righteous man? Am I a righteous man? Are you righteous? Then, if so, wherein does your righteousness consist? That your whole life is adjusted to God, and is moulded by that adjustment. This is righteousness.

- G. Campbell Morgan

topic: Men, Doe, Life Is, Righteous Man, Articulation

There are multitudes of pure and holy spirits waiting to take tabernacles, now what is our duty. To prepare tabernacles for them; to take a course that will not tend to drive those spirits into families of the wicked, where they will be trained in wickedness, debauchery, and every species of crime. It is the duty of every righteous man and woman to prepare tabernacles for all the spirits they can. This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits which are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth.

- Brigham Young

topic: Men, Wife, Waiting, Debauchery, Polygamy