Righteous Quotes

• 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

  Strong, Growing Up, Light

  Song: Forever Young, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

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• The self-righteous never apologize.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Self, Apologizing, Self Righteous

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• People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

  Martin Luther

  Education, People, Principles

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• People united in pursuit of a righteous cause are unstoppable

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Causes, Unstoppable

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• We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

  Martin Luther

  Deeds, Made, Doing Right

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• There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Thinking, Righteous Living

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Redemption, Firsts, Righteousness

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jan 19, 2014

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• When you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  People

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• A righteous person is one who lives for the next generation.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Generations, Next, Persons

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• If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

  Isaac Asimov

  Spiritual, Atheist, Fear

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.481, Bantam

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• A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Puritan, Persons, Wrong Things

  The New York Times, November 21, 1930.

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• The time is always right to do what is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.

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• All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.

  Mason Cooley

  Anger, Sorrow, Doe

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• The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.

  Solomon

  Fathers Day, Children, Integrity

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• It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

  Hesiod

  Men, Class, Greater

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.51, University of Michigan Press

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• Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Causes, Force, Fearful

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• To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought is terrifying.

  Paul Washer

  Men, Self, Doe

  Twitter post from Oct 03, 2013

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• We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.

  J. C. Ryle

  Children, Self, Disease

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• A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

  Solomon

  Fathers Day, Lying, Hate

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• Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Way, Speak

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• There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Self, Morality, Self Righteous

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2005). “Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.619, Penguin

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• Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Men, Righteous Man, Sin

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2007). “Sleeping with Strangers”, p.86, Penguin

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• There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Killing, Righteous Anger

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3117, Manonmani Publishers

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• 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

  Hurt, Honesty, Self

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• A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Children, Father, Protect

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