Righteousness Quotes
582 quotes by 377 authors
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Righteousness and generosity are inseparable. The person whose heart longs for God also longs to give to others.
— Dillon Burroughs
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We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may…
— John F. Kennedy
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The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who…
— Confucius
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We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that God is a…
— Lyman Abbott
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The resurrection stands related to righteousness in the same way that death stands related to sin.
— Geerhardus Vos
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If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to…
— Lauryn Hill
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A trustworthy marriage has weathered temptation and anger and jealousy, resentment, self-righteousness and a little bit of selfishness. When you get over and get through…
— Ruby Dee
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The Prophet Joseph Smith warned us to ‘beware of self-righteousness’ and to enlarge our hearts toward all men and women until we feel ‘to take…
— Neil L. Andersen
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Categorical condemnation is the hatred of the mob. It makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob, a mob overflowing…
— Wendell Berry
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Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites,…
— William James
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It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
— Abdul Kalam
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Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have rolled past and…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too delighted to find…
— Herbert Butterfield
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The motive is this, 'Oh! that God could be glorified, that Jesus might see the reward of his sufferings! Oh! that sinners might be saved,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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There is only one way into the Kingdom of Heaven, but there are many ways into the human heart: and the Church of Christ, ln…
— Orson F. Whitney
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We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said…
— Walter Lippmann
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Man's want of original righteousness and of holy affections toward God, and the corruption of his moral nature and his bias toward evil is called…
— Henry Clarence Thiessen
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The depressed don't simply need to feel better. They need a Redeemer who says, "Take heart, my son, my daughter; what you really need has…
— Elyse Fitzpatrick
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There are five signs of righteousness: a gentle disposition and a soft heart, shedding tears of regret, ascetism and not caring about the world, being…
— Unknown Author
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Righteousness is easy in retrospect.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Who Wrote These Righteousness Quotes
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