Righteousness Quotes - Page 23

• While a lot of people want to join the left to react against the mainstream or right, I in many ways react against the left - not a lot of its fundamental commitments, but its often dismal tone, righteousness, defeatism, etc.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Commitment, People, Fundamentals

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Knowing about the neurobiological and evolutionary basis for social behavior can soften the arrogance and self-righteousness that often attends discussions of morality. It may help us all to think a little more carefully and rationally.

  Patricia Churchland

  Thinking, Self, Knowing

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• When we put too much hope in a candidate or a party we set ourselves up for disappointment. When I see a poster with [Barak] Obama's image with the word "hope" under it, something in me cringes - our hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness, the old hymn goes, all other ground is sinking sand.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Disappointment, Party

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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• We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that it consists in the remission of sins and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness.

  John Calvin

  Acceptance, Men, Righteous Man

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.425, Oxford University Press

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• Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.

  A. A. Gill

  Reality, Blood, Hands

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• To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

  Confucius

  People, Giving, Justice

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• When the devil looks at a man who sincerely desires not to sin, he is not so unintelligent as to suggest to him (as he would to a hardened sinner) that he go and commit fornication or go and steal. He knows we do not want that and he does not set out to tell us something we do not want to hear; but he finds out that little bit of self-will or self-righteousness and through that, with the appearance of well doing, he will do us harm.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Men, Self

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• most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

  Vera Brittain

  Self, Self Righteous, Righteous

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• Those who hope for purity and righteousness always try and destroy that which disturbs them. They think the disturbance comes from outside themselves. This is a serious problem. Wars, suicide bombings, and all sorts of other nasty things start from the premise that we can destroy 'evil' outside ourselves without dealing with the evil within.

  Brad Warner

  Suicide, Hope, War

  Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.89, New World Library

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• More than we care about their "success," vocation, or financial status, our hearts will be encouraged when our kids are faithful followers of Christ, and our hearts will be distressed when our kids appear to reject the Christian faith. So, the most important thing is transferring our kids' allegiance from us to Christ, raising faithful disciples who seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.

  Gary L. Thomas

  Christian, Kids, Heart

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• My will shall be done regardless of the flaws in thy life, if ye count upon the power of My righteousness. I do not work only in cases where there are no obstacles; but I glory in over-ruling the prevailing circumstances, and I take pleasure in bringing victories in those places where no victory is anywhere in sight.

  Frances J Roberts

  Sight, Victory, Done

  Frances J. Roberts (1973). “Come Away My Beloved”

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• Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope of bringing about a Millennium, we busily teach to the heathen, we Christians ourselves disregard.

  Herman Melville

  Christian, War, Men

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war”, p.378

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• Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Sin, Satan

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• God's righteousness and His unchangeable law make Christianity a stumbling block for many. Organizations and individuals carry a political and moral agenda that aims to remove all obstacles to their sin. Their goal is to 'break God's bands asunder and cast away His cords.' They counsel together to rid themselves of the law of God; anyone who preaches the gospel or stands for righteousness stands in the way of their agenda.

  Carman

  Christian, Religious, Block

  Carman Walker, Carman, Walter Walker (1994). “Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God”, Chordant Distribution

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• For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp.

  Joe Klein

  Baby, War, Past

  "Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense" by Joe Klein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2009.

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• What is the most profitable? Fellowship with the good. What is the worst thing in the world? The society of evil men. What is the greatest loss? Failure in one?s duty. Where is the greatest peace? In truth and righteousness. Who is the hero? The man who subdues his senses. Who is the best beloved? The faithful wife. What is wealth? Knowledge. What is the most perfect happiness? Staying at home.

  Bhartrhari

  Happiness, Peace, Hero

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• There is no mercy in trading life for life. And certainly no righteousness. Mercy, once given, cannot be taken back.

  Janet Morris

  Life, Taken, Mercy

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.82, Paradise Publishing

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• A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty. The realization ought to clear the smog of self-righteousness that has always conventionally hovered over these occasions, and let us see the work that is to be done.

  Wendell Berry

  Self, Issues, Abuse

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• Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means, even passive aggression. From a distance, we are all fighting, and I am looking at this from a distance.

  Robert Greene

  Distance, Struggle, Mean

  Source: powerseductionandwar.com

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• Should pain and suffering, sorrow, and grief, rise up like clouds and overshadow for a time the Sun of Righteousness and hide Him from your view, do not be dismayed, for in the end this cloud of woe will descend in showers of blessing on your head, and the Sun of Righteousness rise upon you to set no more forever.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Christian, Pain, Grief

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• For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity. I acknowledge no other God but the one God of truth and righteousness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Rama, Deities

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”

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• Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. And this is how that suffering happens-if we love someone, but do not love God, we demand total perfection and righteousness from that person, and when we do not get it, we become cruel and vindictive; yet we are demanding of a human being which he or she cannot possibly give.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Religious, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.425, Discovery House

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• If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished with able and experienced men, fit to govern.

  Gerrard Winstanley

  Men, Political, Term Limits

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• When you get honest with God, you can exchange the fig leaves you used to cover your sin with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Jesus

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• God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on my own. His righteousness.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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