Righteous Quotes - Page 28

• 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

  Hunting, Names, Giving

  Mark Twain (2011). “No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger”, p.130, Univ of California Press

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• You can’t make yourself closer to God by hating someone else, whether you believe it’s righteous anger or not. The relationship between Soul—which is you—and God is one of love. And where there’s pure love, there is no room for anger of any kind.

  Harold Klemp

  Hate, Believe, Soul

  Harold Klemp (1994). “Stories to help you see God in your life: ECK parables”

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• Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy -
  No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Winning, Long, People

  Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation, delivered 8 December 1941, Washington, D.C.

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• Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage.

  Richard G. Scott

  Successful, Love Is, Foundation

  "The Eternal Blessings of Marriage". Richard G. Scott's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2011.

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• The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.

  F. F. Bruce

  Christian, Religious, Men

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• Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Ideas, People

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. February, 2008.

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• The gun-control crusade today is like the Prohibition crusade 100 years ago. It is a shared zealotry that binds the self-righteous know-it-alls in a warm fellowship of those who see themselves as fighting on the side of the angels against the forces of evil. It is a lofty role that they are not about to give up for anything so mundane as facts - or even the lives of other people.

  Thomas Sowell

  Giving Up, Angel, Fighting

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• The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

  Aldous Huxley

  Luxury, People, Promise

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• Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Forgiveness, Heart, Sin

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• There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man as a penal infliction, but to the righteous as a summons to his Father's palace. To the sinner it is an execution, to the saint an undressing from his sins and infirmities. Death to the wicked is the King of terrors. Death to the saint is the end of terrors, the commencement of glory.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Death, Christian, Kings

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• The purpose of our holy and righteous God was to save his church, but their sin could not go unpunished. It was, therefore, necessary that the punishment for that sin be transferred from those who deserved it but could not bear it, to one who did not deserve it but was able to bear it.

  John Owen

  Punishment, Church, Purpose

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• The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.

  R. C. Sproul

  Holy, Dilemma, Humans

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• There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Inspirational, Mother, Spiritual

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• 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

  Garden, Locks, Roaming

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