Top 90 Righteous Quotes

It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

I was sixteen when I converted to Islam. Beyond the fraternal aspect, my conversion did not change my life. I was already living by the same principles – being righteous, having values.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people.

We are accountable for our actions as we exercise our moral agency. If we understand this principle and make righteous choices, our lives will be blessed.

The blessings of the priesthood are available to every righteous man and woman. We may all receive the Holy Ghost, obtain personal revelation, and be endowed in the temple, from which we emerge ‘armed’ with power.

I’d always been fascinated by boxing and became very engaged with it through my husband, actually. But I started to write about it because so many decent, righteous people wanted it banned.

A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems.

Women of this planet need some essential resources: wells, seeds and roads. That is primarily all we have ever needed. Added to that, women need righteous and strong men who will help us to use our most cherished gifts: the ability to multitask and problem solve.

You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.

We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the time, the effort, the prayers, and the tools we are using. From the moment we are given awareness about some bigger picture or mission, we have to have complete focus on what to do to get to that place.

My 1974 album ‘Mind Over Matter’ was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation.

Modern conveniences grant us more free time to focus on spiritual needs and devote more time to personal service. But the basic element which should never change in the lives of righteous young women is giving service to others.

Don’t be righteous and a liar at the same time – I have a problem with that.

I celebrate everyone’s religious holidays. if it’s good enough for the righteous, it’s good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine.

I don’t know if I’m so righteous.

People are three-dimensional. They’re not good or bad. They’re not righteous or unrighteous. They are a million different things.

To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in proper focus.

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty – the cause of humanity.

I’ve had a righteous streak since as long as I can remember. I never tolerated bullying from kids or authority, no matter the case. I got into trouble for calling things how I saw it in my early years at Catholic school, but I couldn’t help myself.

There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.

The gods behold all righteous actions.

This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words.

Iggy Pop has a voice that’s somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don’t know how he does what he does.

Reasonable ideas which find their sanction in the conscience of the righteous do not die; they are consequently realities and active forces, but they are so only to the extent that those who profess them know how to turn them to account.

Penn Cage I think of as annoyingly righteous sometimes. He’s almost too good.

Somehow the Tories have deflected the righteous anger at the bankers who we bailed out. The Tories manage to take that outrage and direct it at benefit claimants. It’s genius. Evil genius.

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.

Nature is so merciless – but so righteous.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

Democrats justify anything they do against Trump as being righteous, even if it’s morally wrong or even if it’s illegal, because they’re so driven to stop Trump.

The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance – all these important things I got from my Catholic background.

Top Boy’ isn’t the type of programme that is trying to be righteous and have a happy ending, it is just real.

And ladies, build up your husband by being submissive. That’s how you will give your children success; you will want your children to be obedient, to be submissive to righteous living.

I definitely consider myself a Christian. There’s things that I believe in, there’s things I have a self-belief on. I know I got a great relationship with God and the universe. I just believe in being a righteous person and karma. Doing unto others as you would have done unto you. I really want to help teach that.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

No one really knows how trademarks work. I don’t mean, ‘Come along with me on this journey and you will be one of the righteous few who truly understands!’ I mean, no one really understands how trademarks work.

Interestingly, although the ‘Books of Blood’ were greeted with cries of righteous horror – and smirks – I didn’t think of them as being particularly excessive. God knows what I did think was excessive at the time, but I didn’t think they were.

Righteous marriage is a commandment and an essential step in the process of creating a loving family relationship that can be perpetuated beyond the grave.

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

I am righteous and not afraid to speak my truth. My delivery might not always be as diplomatic as I would like it to be, but my words are truthful – spoken from the heart and to the point.

It is righteous to receive state subsidies to make films that criticise the state – I want Japanese people to accept such European values.

With my physicality and my face, I don’t think I could pull off a completely righteous guy. There’s something devious about my eyes. I like characters with flaws and to see how they overcome those flaws. I want to play real people, and they’re flawed, not perfect.

Justification is God’s declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God’s eyes.

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.

Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.

Efforts to steal an election in 2000 or overturn one from 2016 should be met not with passive compliance but a righteous defense of the ballot box.

For reasons known to the Lord, some women are required to wait to have children. This delay is not easy for any righteous woman. But the Lord’s timetable for each of us does not negate our nature.

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems – from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.