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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. -- Socrates
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. -- Blaise Pascal
I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say. -- Bette Midler
The gods behold all righteous actions. -- Ovid
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. -- Martin Luther
The self-righteous never apologize. -- Leonard Ravenhill
There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing. -- Swami Vivekananda
Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways. -- Gautama Buddha
Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people. -- Ezra Taft Benson
There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother. -- Boyd K. Packer
It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable. -- Nikolai Gogol
The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness. -- Sheri L. Dew
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. -- Charles Spurgeon
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven -- Josh Billings
Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions. -- Ibn Taymiyyah
I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words. -- Anna Quindlen
Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time. -- Dave Van Ronk
Jesus is coming back for a church without a spot or a wrinkle. His righteous blood covers the spots and the wrinkles of those who believe unto righteousness, allowing once sinful men to be holy. -- Monica Johnson
Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us. -- David Brin
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 our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones. -- Mark Twain
May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young. -- Bob Dylan
Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity. -- Alexander MacLaren
God declared me righteous! -- Charles R. Swindoll
The righteous shall blossom. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Self-righteous victims invite extra nails. -- Mason Cooley
A righteous husband is a responsible husband. -- Habeeb Akande
Those who are self-righteous are not prominent. -- Laozi
I don't know if I'm so righteous. -- Jessica Brown Findlay
A righteous wife is a respectful wife. -- Habeeb Akande
A respectful woman is a righteous woman. -- Habeeb Akande
The righteous one has no sense of humor. -- Bertolt Brecht
To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance. -- Criss Jami
One needs to be right before getting righteous. -- Walter Darby Bannard
God is righteous in making the sinner righteous. -- Joseph Prince
God has nothing to say to the self-righteous. -- Dwight L. Moody
Time is the best preserver of righteous men. -- Pindar
The Holy God.The righteous God.The supreme God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone? -- Caroline Llewellyn
I won't be righteous again. I'm not sure anymore. -- Billy Joel
No other work transcends that of righteous, intentional parenting. -- Russell M. Nelson
The Gospel declares those who believe righteous and saved. -- Martin Chemnitz
The righteous ones are always exhausting to have around. -- Alexandra Adornetto
You must never underestimate the power of your righteous influence. -- Elaine S. Dalton
People united in pursuit of a righteous cause are unstoppable -- Desmond Tutu
Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence. -- David A. Bednar
The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. -- Abraham Lincoln
The tale of a righteous leftist - THE BRAND DEMAND -- Johnny Worthen
Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing. -- Friedrich Schiller
We can love and do righteous acts only by grace. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
It's more important to be righteous than to be right. -- Lauryn Hill
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Grace is inviting to the unrighteous and threatening to the self-righteous -- Andy Stanley
Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity? -- Jean Racine
There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence. -- Howard W. Hunter
Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when theyâ??re feeling righteous. -- Clive Barker
No matter how righteous you are, no matter how carefully you -- Rex E. Lee
A righteous person is one who lives for the next generation. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be. -- Moses Coady
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...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action. -- Abraham Verghese
An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
...the most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages... -- Theodore Roosevelt
More than half described Christians as literalistic, anti-intellectual, judgmental, self-righteous, and bigoted. -- Marcus J. Borg
By making choices consistent with eternal truth you will develop righteous character. -- Richard G. Scott
Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl. -- Matthew Henry
The gap between what is popular and what is righteous is widening. -- James E. Faust
A righteous wife can make a poor man feel like a king. -- Boonaa Mohammed
most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous. -- Vera Brittain
Our God is righteous enough to judge and kind enough to forgive. -- Kevin DeYoung
Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins. -- Eric Jerome Dickey
If there be one righteous person, the rain falls for his sake. -- Gautama Buddha
Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will. -- Donald Miller
The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness. -- Mason Cooley
Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Whoever raises a righteous child, it is as if he did not die. -- Rashi
Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong. -- Mason Cooley
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall. -- Edmund Spenser
The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him. -- Solomon
Well how can a holy, just, righteous God allow sin into His presence? -- Josh McDowell
Leaders need to cultivate two things: a righteous heart and a rhinoceros skin. -- Charles R. Swindoll
The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [Lat., Di pia facta vident.] -- Ovid
Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many wicked. -- David
O time! whose verdicts mock our own, the only righteous judge art thou! -- Thomas William Parsons
The best of knowledge and righteous acts are those hidden to the people. -- Al-Fudhayl ibn Iyyadh
Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things. -- John Darnielle
Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird. -- Woody Allen
When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan. -- William Paterson
The lips of the righteous teach many, but fools die for want of wisdom. -- Bob Marley
Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes. -- Kevin DeYoung
The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth. -- George Bernard Shaw
I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation. -- Clarence Darrow
Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed, -- Ravi Zacharias
We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing ... -- Simone Weil
I'm a citizen of the only righteous nation in the Universe-the Kingdom of Jesus Christ! -- David Berg
Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend. -- Homer
Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness. -- Timothy Keller
Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering. -- Aleksander Kwasniewski
I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation. -- Norman Mailer
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption. -- Dallas Willard
Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty. -- Steven J. Lawson
A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame. -- Solomon
A righteous God isn't bound by time. He has an eternity to make things right. -- Shannon Dittemore
Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty. -- Steven J. Lawson
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate. -- Euripides
It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable. -- Roger Ebert
There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content. -- Ally Condie
In scorching heat of reality, Thou hast unfolds a shade of thyself for the righteous. -- Jamil Hussain
The witness of solid moral character to a righteous way of life must never be underestimated. -- Arthur F. Holmes
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature. -- Plutarch
The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along. -- Sheri S. Tepper
The atmospheric intensity of two electric lovers is the most righteous place I need to rediscover. -- Steven Storm
The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you're right, you're still left feeling indignant. -- Bill Crawford
There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money. -- Andrew Carnegie
Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane. -- Audrey Meadows
Artha - attainment of wealth, material prosperity,Its realization on righteous and moral basis be;- 5 - -- Munindra Misra

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