Righteous Quotes
521 quotes by 384 authors
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Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don’t fit where you don’t belong
— Richard G. Scott
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If you do not learn to hate you will never be lonely enough to love easily nor will you always be brave, although it does…
— Audre Lorde
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...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
— Abraham Verghese
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when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort…
— Mark Twain
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He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against…
— John Irving
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...Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she…
— David Nicholls
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If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.
— Chin-Ning Chu
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[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the…
— Stephen Levine
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You know, that man has a spirit, that each man and woman is unique, that we have duty to promote our unalienable rights and to…
— Mark Levin
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The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotions or Sunday church. His ministry was to those whom…
— Brennan Manning
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Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in…
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
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I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will…
— J M Coetzee
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You've got nothing to worry about. The righteous do not always right, but their souls remain pure. -Lassiter the Angel
— J R Ward
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The cause doesn't have to be righteous and battle doesn't have to be winnable; but over and over again throughout history, men have chosen to…
— Sebastian Junger
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Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I…
— Brennan Manning
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Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.
— Donald Miller
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Home should be a haven of love. Honor, courtesy, and respect symbolize love and characterize the righteous family.
— Thomas S. Monson
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For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s†with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly private emotional process…
— Lynne Truss
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Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.
— Eric Jerome Dickey
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Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous.
— Clive Barker
Who Wrote These Righteous Quotes
384 authors contributed a total of 521 Righteous Quotes, led by these top contributors: