Top 1200 Righteous Living Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.

Cold water is merciless, but righteous.

The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living in the town.

No one can tell what is righteous and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

The gods behold all righteous actions.

It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.

To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.

In some cases, I allow the edge of the set, the edge of my own artificial, artistic imposition, to show up because I don't want to hide from that. I want to acknowledge that there is a living human and a living eye and a living mind and a living heart responding to what's going on out there.

Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing.

There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.

It's more important to be righteous than to be right.

Nature is so merciless - but so righteous.

Noah is the battle of justice versus mercy. In Genesis it says that Noah was righteous in his times. You think you sort of know what righteous means, you know, if you listen to a lot of Bob Marley. According to all the biblical scholars we talked to, righteousness is the proper balance of justice and mercy. If you think of that, as a parent, you know that if you have too much justice and you're too strict, you destroy a child. If you have too much mercy, as a parent, you destroy a child as well. A big part of this movie is Noah finding mercy for man.

If there be one righteous person, the rain falls for his sake.

Righteous willin, the only thing supreme swimmin'.

I won't be righteous again. I'm not sure anymore.

Go ahead and do what you really love to do! Do nothing else! You have so little time. How can you think of wasting a moment doing something for a living you don't like to do? What kind of a living is that? That is not a living, that is a dying!

The Gospel declares those who believe righteous and saved.

We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.

The self-righteous never apologize.

The gap between what is popular and what is righteous is widening.

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

The righteous one has no sense of humor.

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.

There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess, of its own, the aforementioned paradoxical properties. They are present in living systems only; that is to say, nowhere below the level of the cell.

The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

God declared me righteous!

In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous.

Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.

Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?

I'm very much drawn to these stories. This is a huge, great story [in Doctor Strange] about the possibility of living beyond everything, living beyond mortality, living beyond all the immortal confines, living beyond the planet as we know it. It's mind-blowingly no limits, and I think this is going to be something else.

No other work transcends that of righteous, intentional parenting.

A righteous person is one who lives for the next generation.

This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.

There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.

Time is the best preserver of righteous men.

It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable.

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

Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous.

Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many wicked.

Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don’t fit where you don’t belong

Who is righteous? Anyone who is repenting. No matter how bad he has been, if he is repenting he is a righteous man. There is hope for him. And no matter how good he has been all his life, if he is not repenting, he is a wicked man. The difference is which way you are facing. The man on the top of the stairs facing down if much worse off than the man on the bottom step who is facing up. The direction we are facing, that is repentance; and that is what determines whether we are good or bad.

What self-righteous persons take to themselves, is the same work that Christ was engaged in when He was in His agony and bloody sweat, and when He died on the cross, which was the greatest thing that ever the eyes of angels beheld. Christ could accomplish other parts of this work without cost; but this part cost Him His life, as well as innumerable pains and labors. Yet this is the part which self-righteous persons go about to accomplish for themselves.

Those other lands were Christian, and they boiled with bigotry. The rulers themselves were more or less tolerant, for they depended upon Jews as their financiers. But the lower classes had no use for them, and butchered them whenever a righteous excuse could be found. And righteous excuses were not wanting. If a plague broke out, of course the Jews had poisoned the wells. If a war was lost, of course the Jews had aided the enemy. If a boy mysteriously disappeared, of course the Jews had murdered him to procure blood for their Passover drink.

One needs to be right before getting righteous.

Grace is inviting to the unrighteous and threatening to the self-righteous

I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

The righteous ones are always exhausting to have around.

People united in pursuit of a righteous cause are unstoppable

Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.

God has nothing to say to the self-righteous.

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

Self-righteous victims invite extra nails.

Many young men, when they receive their first wife, are just so untrained. The woman, if she's not careful, will be overbearing and always ask permission for what she wants. 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.

Those who are self-righteous are not prominent.

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.

Righteous people have no sense of humor.

Whoever raises a righteous child, it is as if he did not die.