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Quotes About Righteous

The whole country acknowledges that a woman is sacred. Every move she makes is either building her family up or breaking it down. Every thought she has is felt and considered by her children. Every word she speaks either teaches or misleads. She must remain honorable, pure, and righteous, otherwise there will be no happiness, no family, and no reason to exist.
~ Sister Souljah
And we beseech thee, O mighty and righteous God, to pour the wealth of your mercy, though it be undeserved, onto the pour, lowly sinners of Lansing, Michigan. We implore thee, all powerful God, all knowing God, ever present and uncontainable God, we pray the magnanimousity of your love and grace.
~ Skip Coryell
We are not asking for something spectacular but rather for our sisters to find real self-fulfillment through wise self-development in the pursuit of righteous and worthy endeavors.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
And thus the law is indeed good, because it is prohibition of sin, and death is evil because it is the wages of sin; but as wicked men make an evil use not only of evil, but also of good things, so the righteous make a good use not only of good, but also of evil things. Whence it comes to pass that the wicked make an ill use of the law, though the law is good; and that the good die well, though death is an evil.
~ St. Augustine
Far as I know, it was a righteous bust. I'm
~ Michael Connelly
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
~ Blaise Pascal
May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.
~ Bob Dylan
She wondered why a prison should have such an evil face if it was erected in the interest of justice and order–an expression of the righteous forces of society.
~ Henry James
Retribution seen in natural catastrophes is manufactured by all too eager and all too pious people, each one convinced the world will end but spare them and them alone. But we all know, the world is inherited by the obnoxious, not the righteous
~ Steven Erikson
Home should be a haven of love. Honor, courtesy, and respect symbolize love and characterize the righteous family.
~ Thomas S. Monson
Righteous anger can be an extraordinary thing to behold." Kahlan smiled at his excitement. "It can make the good tremble with joy, and the wicked shiver in fear." The smile left his face. "But people rarely believe the truth when they see it and less so when they don't want to
~ Terry Goodkind
They hadn't read as many stories as Malicia, and were rather more attached to the experience of real life, which is that when someone small and righteous takes on someone big and nasty, he is grilled bread product, very quickly.
~ Terry Pratchett
A foolish man clings to wrong views, mocks the teaching of the righteous, and invites ruin and destruction.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
But that is only 'natural evil,'" he waxed eloquently. "What of personal evil?" Now his words took on the calculated righteous indignation of a politician. "What kind of god would allow the heinous evils of rape, murder, genocide, and war?" Uriel snorted at the irony. At this very moment, the Accuser's ally Inanna was leading a horde of thirty thousand unholy demigods on Eden. They were planning massive rape, murder, genocide, and war.
~ Brian Godawa
They all tended to portray a gloomy dark world where the unrighteous dead suffered in one form or another. The righteous dead, however were taken away to garden paradises, or "Isles of the Blessed.
~ Brian Godawa
Elohim replaced Cain's cursed bloodline with another seed of Adam called Seth, the Righteous. Seth's people multiplied and migrated down into the alluvial plains and surrounding area.
~ Brian Godawa
Enoch explained, "When we were in the midst of the Gigantomachy, I knew that everything that I had believed in was a lie. I understood for the first time in my life that the only way that evil was allowed to spread its talons over the earth was for righteous men to do nothing. We will no longer do nothing. We will fight this evil.
~ Brian Godawa
11The blessing of favor resting upon the righteous influences a city to lift it higher,f but wicked leaders tear it apart by their words.
~ Brian Simmons
15The evil man will do harm when confronted by a righteous man, because he hates those who await good news.
~ Brian Simmons
Ahab had purposely sailed upon the present voyage with the one only and all-engrossing object of hunting the White Whale. Had any one of his old acquaintances on shore but half dreamed of what was lurking in him then, how soon would their aghast and righteous souls have wrenched the ship from such a fiendish man! They were bent on profitable cruises, the profit to be counted down in dollars from the mint. He was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge.
~ Herman Melville
Everyone knows who I am; everyone respects me as a shooter, as an operator, as a soldier... I'm always truthful, I'm always honest, and I'm always trying to do the right thing.
~ Tim Kennedy
Never trust a southerner. No, I'm kidding. They're wonderful. You want to believe in his niceness and his charm, but he's an evil kind of crazy man who's righteous. Fear the righteous.
~ Nathan Fillion
The world is inherited by the obnoxious, not the righteous.
~ Steven Erikson
Karos has said again and again, justice is a conceit. It does not exist in nature. 'Retribution seen in natural catastrophes is manufactured by all too eager and all too pious people, each one convinced the world will end but spare them and them alone. But we all know, the world is inherited by the obnoxious, not the righteous.' Unless, came the thought in Janath's voice, the two are one and the same.
~ Steven Erikson