My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Even with the trials of life, because of the Savior's Atonement and his grace, righteous living will be rewarded with personal peace. — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed, — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“Have clean hands in whatever you do. Integrity is doing the right thing when people are watching you and still making it… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“God legally must make you as righteous as He Himself is in order to have fellowship with you.” — Terry Law Copy Share Image
It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Righteousness has to do with the vertical standard that God gives us to please Him. Justice has to do with the horizontal… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
“This word "justify." It never means to make righteous inside. It means, strictly, to count righteous. It is very important to know… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Every day of Ramadhan Allah beautifies Jannah and says: "Soon my righteous servants will finish their work and will rest in you."… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
“Therefore, the pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
...a man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote can arouse more moral solicitude and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We are all trophies of God's grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
You listen to the mind, you become miserable - otherwise, this today is paradise! And there is no other paradise, this today… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Parents must bring light and truth into their homes by one family prayer, one scripture study session, one family home evening, one… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
A little righteous anger really brings out the best in the American personality. Our nation was born when 56 patriots got mad… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
If we will build righteous traditions in our families, the light of the gospel can grow ever brighter in the lives of… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
I shall pray to God to send charity to this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“26The righteous should choose his friends carefully, For the way of the wicked leads them astray.” — Richard G. Lee Copy Share Image
How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable. — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I don't like self-righteous people," I say. "What's to like?" says Haymitch, who begins sucking the dregs out of the empty bottles. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace. — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his! -Numbers xxiii. 10 — Bible Copy Share Image
We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous. — Charles Buck Copy Share Image
There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
The most powerful teaching a child will ever receive will come from concerned and righteous fathers and mothers. — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image