Justice Quote by Vera Brittain Download Open image “most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.” — Vera Brittain ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Justice Righteous Righteousness Self Self righteous
Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“The problem with self righteousness is that it seems almost impossible to recognize in ourselves. We will own up to almost any other sin.… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
God has nothing to say to the self-righteous. Unless you humble yourself before Him in the dust, and confess before Him your iniquities and… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves. — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
“At this time of the year it seems that everything ought to be creative, not destructive, and that we should encourage things to live… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
“Mother says that people like me just become intellectual old maids,' I told him. 'I don't see why,' he protested. 'Oh, well, it's probably true!' I said, rather sharply, for misery had as usual made me irritable. 'After the War there'll be no one for me to marry.' 'Not even me?' he asked very softly. 'How do I know I… — Vera Brittain Copy Share
“It is quite impossible to understand,’ I commented afterwards, ‘how we can be such strong individualists, so insistent on the rights and claims of every human soul, and yet at the same time countenance (and if we are English, even take quite calmly) this wholesale murder, which if it were applied to animals or birds or indeed anything except men… — Vera Brittain Copy Share
Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worth while – husbands and books and committees and… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
“[I] wondered if he was looking up at that same moon, far away, and thinking of me as I was thinking of him.” — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case of musterd gas - the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great musterd coloured suppurating blisters, with blind… — Vera Brittain Copy Share
Never fight on the wrong side; you might win but the burden of guilt is more than a loss. — Lilian Salan Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
In the battle for police reform, accountability and justice, Americans don't have to re-invent the wheel. We just have to revoke the thing that… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
“Why do so many people do nothing? I think it’s because most of us look at the evils and injustice around us, and we become overwhelmed. The problems look too big for us to tackle. We say to ourselves, “What can I do? I’m just one person.” One person is a start. One person can act and make a change… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share
“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Civilized nations are ones that simply can't endure wrongs or injustice except at home — Joseph Anderson Copy Share Image
Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable. — Donald P. Ryan Copy Share Image
This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax… — George Mason Copy Share Image
May God bless each of us in our calls to serve. May our faith strengthen as we serve in righteousness, faithfully keeping the commandments. May our testimonies ever grow stronger as we seek to find the fountain of eternal truth. May the brotherhood that exists in our quorum be of comfort and strength and security as we pass through this… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share
At minimum, we must recognize that there are legitimate, unanswered questions about whether the Obama Justice Department involved themselves in a political project targeting… — Mark Meadows Copy Share Image
We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California. — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
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