Righteous Quotes - Page 24

• Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be — or to be indistinguishable from — self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.

  Neal Stephenson

  Self, Years, Games

  "Cryptonomicon". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1999.

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• Our God is righteous enough to judge and kind enough to forgive.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Judging, Forgiving, Kind

  Twitter post from Sep 12, 2015

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• ...Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she had always needed the most.

  David Nicholls

  Self, Lazy, Important

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• There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty - in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub - our immediate duty is to stop it.

  E. M. Forster

  War, Mean, Self

  "Notes on the Way". Time and Tide Magazine, June 10, 1934.

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• Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand, it is the handmaid of a sober, industrious, righteous, and brave man, who devotes all his powers to the service of the people, it is the sign of a lofty spirit that harbours no mean thoughts

  Plutarch

  Mean, Men, Hands

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• To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.

  Criss Jami

  Greatness, Vengeance

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.102, Criss Jami

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• Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.

  Charles Buck

  Awful, Eternity, Consideration

  Charles Buck (1831). “Anecdotes, religious, moral, and entertaining”, p.44

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• In the case of man, righteousness is adjustment to God, and an articulation with man based upon that adjustment. Are you a righteous man? Am I a righteous man? Are you righteous? Then, if so, wherein does your righteousness consist? That your whole life is adjusted to God, and is moulded by that adjustment. This is righteousness.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Men, Righteous Man, Doe

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• The anger that you see expressed out there in Los Angeles, in my district this evening, is a righteous anger, and it's difficult for me to say to the people, "Don't be angry." When people are angry and enraged, they do do senseless things. They do act even sometimes out of character, and that's why it is the responsibility of America to try and avoid putting people in these kinds of situations.

  Maxine Waters

  Character, Responsibility, America

  "Nightline", April 30, 1992.

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• When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's biography regarding God's promised experiences and truth for him - his individual, unique path of humbling oneself before the Lord and then being exalted by the Lord back into his true and righteous personhood. Many followers may speak of it merely to try to change other people (before changing themselves), but the prophets speak of it as a living word which miraculously tells their very own experiences.

  Criss Jami

  Unique, Men, People

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• The bible teaches that a father may sell his daughter for a slave, that he may sacrifice her purity to a mob, and that he may murder her, and still be a good father and a holy man. It teaches that a man may have any number of wives; that he may sell them, give them away, or swap them around, and still be a perfect gentleman, a good husband, a righteous man, and one of God's most intimate friends; and that is a pretty good position for a beginning.

  Helen H. Gardener

  Daughter, Husband, Father

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• Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.

  Lev Shestov

  Atheism, Irritated, Belief

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• John Stuart Mill, in his wonderful 1859 book On Liberty, talks about civility. And this is why you should always be concerned about calls for civility. He points out that civility ends up getting defined by the people who are in charge. And you'll notice that when people argue for civility, they tend to actually believe that whatever they say is civil. And if they're angry about it, it's righteous rage. But if you say it and it's kind of sharp or mean, then it's incivil. ... And sometimes, disagreement-to be productive-can't be all that civil.

  Greg Lukianoff

  Believe, Book, Mean

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• When are you people going to learn? It's not about who's right or wrong. No denomination's nailed it yet, because they're all too self-righteous to realize that it doesn't matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith. Your hearts are in the right place, but your brains need to wake up. I have issues with anyone who treats faith as a burden instead of a blessing. You people don't celebrate your faith; you mourn it.

  Kevin Smith

  Heart, Blessing, Self

  "Fictional character: Serendipity". "Dogma", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• What I'm trying to do is be righteous.  And when I say “righteous,” I don't mean God.  You know?  God- Righteous.  I mean just when I wake up, I know I was honest to myself.

  Patrice O'Neal

  Mean, Trying, Wake Up

  "Patrice O’Neal: Trying to Be Righteous". "Unmasked" with Ron Bennington, theinterrobang.com. February 7, 2012.

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• The virtuous shall have the power to revive and live again. All pure and holy spirits live on in heavenly places, and in course of time they are again sent down to inhabit righteous bodies

  Josephus

  Body, Spirit, Holy

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• Sometimes people think if someone has depression, that person must be a broken Mormon. We believe that righteousness is happiness, but what happens when people are righteous and they're not happy?

  Hank Smith

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Mother, War, Rocks

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• When we're putting out records that people are responding to, it's amazing. And it's obviously what we shoot for every time. It's a tricky balancing act. But as long as it's sort of a righteous idea, then you're good to go.

  El-P

  Ideas, Long, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Righteous willin, the only thing supreme swimmin'.

  Nelly

  Expression, Supreme

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• In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.

  Criss Jami

  Lying, Eye, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.87, Criss Jami

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• That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.

  Jane Addams

  Teaching, May, Simulate

  Jane Addams (1949). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.203, Hayes Barton Press

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• If I seem happy to you . . . You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.' All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Please Me, Say Anything

  FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

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• Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Art, Law, Justice

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1842). “The masque of Anarchy, a poem, with a preface by L. Hunt. To which is added, Queen Liberty; Song- To the men of England”, p.18

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• If any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned…I wish more of our young men would take to themselves wives of the daughters of Zion, and not wait for us old men to take them all; go ahead upon the right principle, young gentlemen, and God bless you forever and ever and make you fruitful , that we may fill the mountains and then the earth with righteous inhabitants.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Daughter, Men, Zion

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