Righteousness Quotes - Page 29

• People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.

  Han Fei

  People, Doctrine, Submissive

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• I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity or of religion in general. But atheism that consists entirely in vacuous arguments afloat on oceans of historical ignorance, made turbulent by storms of strident self-righteousness, is as contemptible as any other form of dreary fundamentalism. And it is sometimes difficult, frankly, to be perfectly generous in one’s response to the sort of invective currently fashionable among the devoutly undevout, or to the sort of historical misrepresentations it typically involves.

  David Bentley Hart

  Ocean, Ignorance, Self

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• A man who has been born into the house of a warrior and yet places no loyalty in his heart and thinks only of the fortune of his position will be flattering on the surface and construct schemes in his heart, will forsake righteousness and not reflect on his shame, and will stain the warrior's name of his household to later generations. This is truly regrettable.

  Torii Mototada

  Loyalty, Heart, Warrior

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• No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Fashion, Law, Design

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• My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Fashion, Men, Numbers

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• Young people, if you honor your fathers, you will love them, respect them, confide in them, be considerate of them, express appreciation for them, and demonstrate all of these things by following their counsel in righteousness and by obeying the commandments of God.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Appreciation, Father, People

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• People are afraid that if they let go of their anger and righteousness and wrath, and look at their own feelings-and even see the good in a bad person-they're going to lose the energy they need to do something about the problem. But actually you get more strength and energy by operating from a place of love and concern. You can be just as tough, but more effectively tough.

  Robert Thurman

  Love, Strength, Letting Go

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• There is neither man or woman in this Church who is not on a mission. That mission will last as long as they live, and it is to do good, to promote righteousness, to teach the principles of truth, and to prevail upon themselves and everybody around them to live those principles that they may obtain eternal life

  Brigham Young

  Men, Long, Church

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”

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• Whoever seeks honor [by marrying a woman] will be tested with lowliness, and whoever seeks wealth [by marrying a woman] will be tested with poverty, but whoever looks for righteousness [in a woman], then Allah would combine both honor and wealth with righteousness for him in her.

  Sufyan ibn `Uyaynah

  Honor, Looks, Poverty

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• Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living.

  David O. McKay

  Spring, Soul

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• Within your sphere of responsibility you have as serious an obligation as do I within my sphere of responsibility. Each of us should be determined to build the kingdom of God on the earth and to further the work of righteousness.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Responsibility, Earth, Kingdoms

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• In the Confucian tradition is a simple formula that appeals to me deeply: 'If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.' I urge everyone to reflect deeply on these words, as simple as they are profound.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Character, Home, Heart

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• That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Believe, Looks, Trouble

  Flannery O'Connor (2007). “Wise Blood: A Novel”, p.28, Macmillan

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• To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

  Confucius

  Sympathy, Heart, All Things

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• The constant exercise of our faith by lofty thinking, prayer, devotion, and acts of righteousness is just as essential to spiritual health as physical exercise is to the health of the body. Like all priceless things, faith, if lost, is hard to regain. Eternal vigilance is the price of our faith. In order to retain our faith we must keep ourselves in tune with our Heavenly Father by living in accordance with the principles and ordinances of the gospel.

  O. Leslie Stone

  Spiritual, Prayer, Father

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• I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.

  Mark Slouka

  Pain, Circles, Soul

  "Quitting the Paint Factory". Harper’s Magazine, November 2004.

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• I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.

  John Nelson Darby

  Thank God, Christ, Objects

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• For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.

  Johann Arndt

  Grace, Salvation, Pure

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