Righteousness Quotes
582 Righteousness quotes by 377 unique authors
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More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.
— Glen Cook
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The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive problem in our society. It may be the…
— John Bradshaw
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Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope.
— William Shakespeare
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known…
— Timothy Keller
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A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.
— Confucius
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We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for…
— Steven Pinker
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Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.' Not only do the followers of Jesus renounce their rights, they…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally _all_ things. He will see to…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap,
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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I'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is imperfect. So are…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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Churchgoers feel righteous, responsible, and obedient to God's will. They view anyone unlike themselves as devoid of values, and therefore unworthy of God's love. By…
— Deepak Chopra
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Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the Empire. We believe…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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True purity, however, is a direction, a persistent, determined pursuit of righteousness. This direction starts in the heart, and we express it in a lifestyle…
— Joshua Harris
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If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.
— Stephen Covey
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People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered…
— John Calvin
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We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be…
— Francis John McConnell
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Many Christians still at bottom look upon God as one of the most selfish, self-absorbed Beings in the universe, far more selfish than they could…
— Hannah Whitall Smith
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To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness
— Confucius
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Ye [Anabaptists] be proud contemners of the free grace of God offered to man in Christ Jesus. For with the Pelagians and Papists ye are…
— John Knox
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Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.
— Eric Hoffer
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
— Eric Hoffer
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My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward…
— Tullian Tchividjian
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can…
— Queen Rania of Jordan
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