The gods behold all righteous actions.

We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.

— Simone Weil

“Every time I try to be righteous by my own actions, God reminds me my righteousness comes from Jesus alone.”

— alisa hope wagner

Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.

— Ibn Taymiyyah

The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [Lat., Di pia facta vident.]

— Ovid

Even the gods are moved by the voice of entreaty.

— Ovid

Beauty- it was a favor bestowed by the gods.

— Ovid

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

— Ovid

“Christianity is faith in a Righteous God .”

— Lailah Gfty Akita

“The path of the righteous is not determined by the fall, but by the rising after the fall.”

— The King Sir Knight of the Splendid Way

God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority.…

— John Owen

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of…

— Martin Luther

Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross,…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I…

— John Wyndham

Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples…

— Philip Yancey