Righteous Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Philosophical, Sheep, Enlightenment

  J. M. Coetzee (2016). “The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]”, p.22, Princeton University Press

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• Home should be a haven of love. Honor, courtesy, and respect symbolize love and characterize the righteous family.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Home, Honor, Courtesy

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• If you do not learn to hate you will never be lonely enough to love easily nor will you always be brave, although it does not grow any easier. Do not pretend to convenient beliefs, even when they are righteous; you will never be able to defend your city while shouting.

  Audre Lorde

  Lonely, Hate, Cities

  Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.63, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The cause doesn't have to be righteous and battle doesn't have to be winnable; but over and over again throughout history, men have chosen to die in battle with their friends rather than to flee on their own and survive.

  Sebastian Junger

  Men, Battle, Causes

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• Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.

  Dallas Willard

  Deeds, Redemption, Courses

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• For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly private emotional process similar to the stages of bereavement, though greatly accelerated. First there is shock. Within seconds, shock gives way to disbelief, disbelief to pain, and pain to anger. Finally (and this is where the analogy breaks down), anger gives way to a righteous urge to perpetrate an act of criminal damage with the aid of a permanent marker.

  Lynne Truss

  Pain, Book, Emotional

  "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, www.newyorker.com. 2003.

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• Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples - an ornery, undependable, and hopelessly flawed group of men - became drunk with the power of a gospel that offered free forgiveness to the worst sinners and traitors. Those men managed to change the world.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Men, Impact

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Grace Notes”, p.95, Harper Collins

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• somebody/ anybody sing a black girl's song bring her out to know herself to know you but sing her rhythms carin/ struggle/ hard times sing her song of life she's been dead so long closed in silence so long she doesn't know the sound of her own voice her infinite beauty she's half-notes scattered without rhythm/ no tune sing her sighs sing the song of her possibilities sing a righteous gospel let her be born let her be born & handled warmly.

  Ntozake Shange

  Girl, Song, Struggle

  Ntozake Shange (2010). “For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.

  John Calvin

  Men, Sight, Justified

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.318, Lulu.com

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• A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while also safeguarding religious freedom, intellectual freedom and individual freedoms. But there is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Names, Evil

  Address to a Joint Meeting of the U.S. Congress, delivered 24 September 2015, Washington, D.C.

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• You've got nothing to worry about. The righteous do not always right, but their souls remain pure. -Lassiter the Angel

  J.R. Ward

  Angel, Worry, Soul

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• The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

  Euripides

  Character, Men, Righteous Man

  "Aegeus". Play by Euripides, 431 BCE.

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• In ourselves, we are sinners, and yet through faith we are righteous by the imputation of God. For we trust him who promises to deliver us, and in the meantime struggle so that sin may not overwhelm us, but that we may stand up to it until he finally take it away from us.

  Martin Luther

  Struggle, Promise, May

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• The reason people hate America is because they don't like being treated like garbage by arrogant, pompous, hypocritical, self-righteous, duplicitous, imperialist political and bureaucratic hacks.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Hate, America, Self

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• ...When it was finished, the scaled dragon looked around and as the thing spotted V, a growl rippled up to the bleachers, then ended in a snort. "You finished, big guy?" Va called down. "FYI, goalpost over there would work righteous as a toothpick.

  J.R. Ward

  Dragons, Guy, Bigs

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• Sheldon Vanauken wrote that the strongest argument for Christianity is Christians, when they are drawing life from God. The strongest argument against Christianity? Also Christians, when they become exclusive, self-righteous, and complacent.

  John Ortberg

  Christian, Self, Drawing

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.

  John Irving

  Self, Nurse, Abortion

  "The Cider House Rules". Book by John Irving, 1985.

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• If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.

  Chin-Ning Chu

  Suffering, Reason, Results

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• ...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

  Abraham Verghese

  Guilt, Action, Right Action

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.139, Random House India

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• [D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90)

  Stephen Levine

  Self, Suffering Of Others, Let It Go

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• You know, that man has a spirit, that each man and woman is unique, that we have duty to promote our unalienable rights and to protect them, that we have a duty to our families and ourselves, to take care of ourselves, to contribute to charity, that we have a duty to support a just and righteous law that is stable and predictable.

  Mark Levin

  Unique, Men, Rights

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• Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in when they’ve spent years taking out. No doesn’t magically become a Yes.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Self, Years, People

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• The gap between what is popular and what is righteous is widening.

  James E. Faust

  Gaps

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