Righteous Quotes - Page 21

• Time is the best preserver of righteous men.

  Pindar

  Men, Righteous Man

  "The Odes and Selected Fragments" by Pindar. Fragment 159; p. 387, 1997.

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• What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.

  Pauline Kael

  Dirty, Play, Disgusting

  Pauline Kael (1989). “Hooked”, E P Dutton

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• A righteous government is of all the most to be wished for,Bearing of blessing and good fortune in the highest.Guided by the law of Truth, supported by dedication and zeal,It blossoms into the Best of Order, a Kingdom of Heaven!To effect this I shall work now and ever more.

  Zoroaster

  Blessing, Dedication, Government

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• We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Leaving, Undone

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• Through faith we are restored to paradise and created anew. We have no need of works in order to be righteous; however, in order to avoid idleness and so that the body might be cared for an disciplined, works are done freely to please God.

  Martin Luther

  Order, Needs, Done

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.864, Fortress Press

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• Each additional day together is a gift. The end of the day means the end of hostilities, the recognition that the underlying shared values and commitment to the relationship trump the need for one last dig or self-righteous justification.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Mean, Commitment, Self

  Source: time.com

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• All things come alike to all; there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not.

  Doris Lessing

  Wicked, Events, Ecclesiastes

  Doris Lessing (1999). “Ecclesiastes or, The Preacher”, p.30, Canongate Books

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• Because of his sinless life, Jesus walked in perfect dominion. God did whatever he asked, NOT because he was God's son, but because he held the position of a righteous man. But that was Jesus, you say. But the Bible says that through our believing on Him, we have been given the same position of righteousness with God that Jesus has.

  Kenneth Copeland

  Jesus, Believe, Son

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• Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.

  Hal Duncan

  Christian, Prejudice, Abjection

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• I realized that my righteous indignation was a form of entertainment for me. I loved getting pissed off at injustice. I didn't do anything about it, I just liked the feeling of being pissed off.

  Harold Ramis

  Feelings, Pissed Off, Entertainment

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Life everywhere is in vast and endless variety. So it is with life eternal, that gift of God, constituting, in its length and breadth and height and depth, the reward of the righteous. The penitent, dying thief is not going into heaven like the triumphant, dying Paul.

  Herrick Johnson

  Heaven, Dying, Depth

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• In every sound convert the judgment is brought to approve of the laws and ways of Christ, and subscribe to them as most righteous and reasonable; the desire of the heart is to know the whole mind of Christ; the free and resolved choice of the heart is determined for the ways of Christ, before all the pleasures of sin, and prosperities of the world; it is the daily care of his life to walk with God.

  Joseph Alleine

  Heart, Law, Choices

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• The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Moving, Self, Skeptic

  "The Visitor". Book by Sheri S. Tepper, 2002.

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• Possession properly has two faces, two aspects: we all have a right to private property, but this is accompanied by our responsibility for its righteous use. These two things (which should be inseparable) are frequently divided today. Everyone admits that the farmer who own a horse is obligated to feed and care for it, but in the case of stocks and bonds, we often forget that the same principle should prevail.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Horse, Responsibility

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• I think when hip hop first started, people were open to it, and groups like Public Enemy and there was groups like Poor Righteous Teachers and all these people who were spitting a lot of knowledge, a lot of history, questioning a lot of societal barriers was starting to be super popular.

  Ice Cube

  Teacher, Thinking, People

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• That is part of why we must keep talking about Fannie Lou Hamer and about our history as a party and as a nation. We can't forget. If we forget, we can get self-righteous. We are great, but we had to grow into that greatness. Let's not forget that we shut people out.

  Leah D. Daughtry

  Party, Greatness, Talking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you're being a jerk, but when you get music rage, you're carrying out the will of God, and God wants these people dead.

  Nick Hornby

  People, Tiny, Want

  "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, June 7, 2005.

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• The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment. Whereas the groanings of the righteous are but short, and their jubilee and triumph shall be everlasting.

  Ebenezer Erskine

  Hypocrite, Joy, Wicked

  Ebenezer Erskine (1798). “The whole works of the late Rev. Mr. Ebenezer Erskine, minister of the gospel at Stirling: consisting of sermons and discourses, on the most important and interesting subjects”, p.108

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• We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fear, Men, Righteous Man

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.159, Princeton University Press

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• We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Giving Up, Self, Should Have

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.57, BookBaby

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• The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of righteous rage.

  June Jordan

  Energy, Legacy, Moral

  June Jordan (1992). “Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union”, Pantheon

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• The gods see the deeds of the righteous.
  [Lat., Di pia facta vident.]

  Ovid

  Deeds

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• what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Thinking, Good Man, World

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

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• O time! whose verdicts mock our own, the only righteous judge art thou!

  Thomas William Parsons

  Time, Art, Judging

  Dante Alighieri, Thomas William PARSONS (1843). “The First Ten Cantos of the Inferno ... Newly Translated Into English Verse [by Thomas W. Parsons].”, p.6

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• Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.

  Aeschylus

  Eye, Home, Hands

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