Righteousness Quotes

582 Righteousness quotes by 377 unique authors

More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. — Glen Cook
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
Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope. — William Shakespeare
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
A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard. — Confucius
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
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
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
Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap, — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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
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
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
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
If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. — Stephen Covey
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
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
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
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
To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness — Confucius
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
Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God! — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness. — Eric Hoffer
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us. — Eric Hoffer
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
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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