Top 100 Quotes About The Righteous
#1. If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness ... we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.
Clement Of Alexandria
#2. The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Anonymous
#3. It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven
Josh Billings
#4. The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.
Bill Medley
#5. The Gospel is the news that Jesus Christ, the Righteous One, died for our sins and
rose again, eternally triumphant over all his enemies, so that there is now no
condemnation for those who believe, but only everlasting joy.
John Piper
#6. There is no deeper pathos in the spiritual life of man than the cruelty of righteous people. If any one idea dominates the teachings of Jesus, it is his opposition to the self-righteousness of the righteous.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#7. My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
Beverly Sills
#8. For the righteous, the gospel provides a warning before calamity, a program for the crises, refuge for each disaster ... The Lord has warned us of famines, but the righteous will have listened to the prophets and stored at least one year's supply of survival food ...
Ezra Taft Benson
#9. My daughter McKenna thought I sang with the Everly Brothers ... I said, 'no I was one of the Righteous Brothers' and she said 'didn't they invent the airplane?'
Bill Medley
#10. To the divine providence it has seemed good to prepare in the world to come for the righteous good things, which the unrighteous shall not enjoy; and for the wicked evil things, by which the good shall not be tormented.
Augustine Of Hippo
#11. PSA64.10 The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.
Anonymous
#12. I envied Victor's certainty, the idiot syntax of the righteous. This belief - that the world had a visible order, and all we had to do was look for the symbols - as if evil were a code that could be cracked.
Emma Cline
#13. Their wings will shadow the sun, their breath will scorch the earth, and their fire will consume the righteous!"
"So we all die ?"
"No, no, no! We fight them!"
"How do you fight a dragon ?" I asked him.
"With prayer, boy, with prayer."
"So we all die.
Bernard Cornwell
#14. 21 The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense. 22 The Lord's blessing enriches, and struggle adds nothing to it.
Anonymous
#15. Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.
Aeschylus
#16. Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many wicked.
David
#17. A rebellion is something that is developing as an explosion coming out of the righteous grievances of a community of people.
Grace Lee Boggs
#18. The call of repentance is for the righteous and the unrighteous, the godly and the ungodly alike. If the righteous had been the lights they were called to be, the nation would never have fallen as it did.
Jonathan Cahn
#19. 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.
Horace
#20. 10 The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.
Anonymous
#21. 11 But let all who take refuge in you be glad; let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may rejoice in you. 12 Surely, LORD, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with a shield.
Anonymous
#22. Welcome the righteous,
avoid the wicked,
and yet open both arms to the repentant.
Whoever receives them receives God.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#23. Imagine the righteous dismay when Ann arrived. She got slapped with some family name - didn't even get the extra e to ornament it a bit.
Gillian Flynn
#24. For you s bless the righteous, O LORD; you t cover him with favor as with u a shield.
Anonymous
#25. Therefore the words in Psalm 72:7: "In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth," must not be explained as signifying such earthly peace as the world enjoyed under Caesar Augustus, as many believe, but "peace with God," or spiritual peace.
Martin Luther
#26. The path towards peace is not for the righteous, the ethical, the active and the compassionate to shit on the malicious, the complacent, the violent and the ignorant. The path towards peace is to be peaceful.
Ilyas Kassam
#27. Not to the swift, the race: Not to the strong, the fight: Not to the righteous, perfect grace: Not to the wise, the light. But often faltering feet Come surest to the goal; And they who walk in darkness meet The sunrise of the soul.
Henry Van Dyke
#28. For the Lord watches over the way
of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.
Anonymous
#29. Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.
Charles Buck
#30. 45Then he will answer them, saying, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, j you did not do it to me.' 46And these will go away k into eternal punishment, but the righteous k into l eternal life.
Anonymous
#31. The end result of positively reinforcing bad behavior is that you get more of it. The culmination of a failure to punish predators is a debased, dissolute, slum-dog society in which, by legal decree, the righteous suffer and the wicked prosper.
Ilana Mercer
#32. The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.
Robert Breault
#33. Love is the ark appointed for the righteous,
Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.
Rumi
#34. A foolish man clings to wrong views, mocks the teaching of the righteous, and invites ruin and destruction.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#35. The gods see the deeds of the righteous.
[Lat., Di pia facta vident.]
Ovid
#36. When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
W. Cleon Skousen
#37. 25I have been young, and now I am old; Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,
Anonymous
#38. But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you,
Kahlil Gibran
#39. He knew that you didn't win justice by carrying a sign or a cardboard coffin. You earned it by being on the side of the righteous, by being unswayed from that
Michael Connelly
#40. I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding - no frills, down to the bone and intense.
Jerry Wexler
#41. There is no coincidence in God's Kingdom, all things are divinely arranged and He orders the footsteps of the righteous.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#42. Satan and that man is still man even after 1000 years of the righteous, benevolent rule of Christ on earth. Even under the most ideal circumstances imaginable, man is still totally depraved and in desperate need of a new heart by the regeneration of the Spirit of God.
Mark Hitchcock
#43. I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Anonymous
#44. In this place of gracious uncertainty, we wait. For the broken places to be brought back together. For the meaning of our suffering to be revealed in his. For the righteous reign of a mighty God, whose goodness we will spend all eternity celebrating. We wait - with open, expectant hearts.
Paula Rinehart
#45. The wise teach, the righteous learn from them; the foolish disregard any knowledge handed to them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#46. The most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star and the scapegoat, the righteous and the wretched, the powerful and the pathetic.
John Bradshaw
#48. Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.
Steven J. Lawson
#49. the righteous person will live by his faithfulness
Anonymous
#50. As Jews, we are commanded to give tzedakah - an act of justice, not charity - because it is the righteous thing to do.
Lynn Schusterman
#51. Proverbs 21:15 NIV:
When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.
Anonymous
#52. Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.
Isaiah
#53. 2Ti4:07 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: 2Ti4:08 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
Anonymous
#54. When 'You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling' hit, we were doing a show called 'Shindig!' and the Righteous Brothers suddenly became big business.
Bill Medley
#55. I have no gospel to preach to the self-righteous, no, not a word of it. Jesus Christ himself came not to call the righteous, and I am not going to do what He did not do.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#56. The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#57. THE RETRIBUTION PRINCIPLE (RP) is the conviction that the righteous will prosper and the wicked will suffer, both in proportion to their respective righteousness and wickedness. In Israelite theology the principle was integral to the belief in God's justice.
John H. Walton
#58. For, the counsel of God confronts us with the truth that the Righteous One was delivered to death for our sins, and his blood was our ransom from death.
John Calvin
#59. 16A little that a righteous man has Is better than the riches of many wicked. 17For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, But the LORD upholds the righteous.
Anonymous
#60. For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.' All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#61. But the righteous one will live by his faith.
Anonymous
#62. ps.146.8 Jehovah is loosing the prisoners, Jehovah is opening (the eyes of) the blind, Jehovah is raising the bowed down, Jehovah is loving the righteous, ps.146.9 Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.
Anonymous
#63. Sometimes the righteous path doesn't take you where you need to go!
Shawn Wickersheim
#64. The righteous person may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all. PSALM 34:19 NIV
Pamela L. McQuade
#65. The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land, we should soon see a massacre of the righteous. Jesus was watched by his enemies, who were thirsting for his blood: his disciples must not look for favour where their Master found hatred and death.
Charles Spurgeon
#66. And if I sometimes hear nothing for hours on end it is for reasons of which I know nothing, or because about me all goes really silent, from time to time, whereas for the righteous the tumult of the world never stops.
Samuel Beckett
#67. 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.
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
#69. Upon this build your nation:
The righteous can be trusted;
the wicked must be punished;
the wise must be promoted;
and the foolish must be disregarded.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#70. Never stop hoping for all of the righteous desires of your heart. But don't close your eyes and hearts to the simple and elegant beauties of each day's ordinary moments that make up a rich, well-lived life
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#71. On the day when I act," says the LORD Almighty, "they will be my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as a father has compassion and spares his son who serves him. And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.
Anonymous
#72. But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
Shelley Hitz
#73. There is hope for the soul that sin; to be forgiven by the Righteous One.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#75. Love is priceless,
but the righteous give it for free.
Hate is cheap,
but the wicked purchase it at high prices.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#76. The path of the righteous is not determined by the fall, but by the rising after the fall.
Various
#77. CHRIST IS ADVOCATE. [1 Jn. 2:1, 2] My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father - Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
Anonymous
#78. It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.
Anonymous
#79. 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.
Ezra Taft Benson
#80. 6There is power in the house of the righteous,[226] But the house of the wicked Is filled with trouble, No matter how much money they have. 7When wisdom speaks Revelation-knowledge is released,[227]
Brian Simmons
#81. You've got nothing to worry about. The righteous do not always right, but their souls remain pure. -Lassiter the Angel
J.R. Ward
#83. When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.
William Paterson
#84. 25 I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.
Anonymous
#85. Gary was a righteous man, frank about his lusts, and they were the lusts of the righteous: for sugar and fat and the succour of a wife.
Rafael Yglesias
#86. If you sin yourself and grieve even unto death for your sins or for your sudden sin, then rejoice for others, rejoice for the righteous man, rejoice that if you have sinned, he is righteous and has not sinned.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#87. I feel sad for the righteous man who cannot find understanding or compassion for a magnificent sinner like me.
David Zailer
#88. For 'we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.' And 'many are the afflictions of the righteous.'" "But the Lord delivereth him out of them all,
Martha Finley
#89. The name of the Lord (says the Scripture) is a strong tower; thither the righteous flee and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). Let us secure His favor and He will lead us through the journey of this life and at length receive us to a better.
Samuel Adams
#90. The pain done to Housman allowed him to rise above the mediocre and to find the words that most of us need help in order to say. The price paid by Housman was a life alone; the righteous rhymer enduring each year unloved and unable to love:
Morrissey
#91. Fools do not acknowledge God,
the proud reject Him,
the wise embrace Him,
and the righteous worship Him.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#92. Blessed is he who walks the path of God. He shall stray neither to the left nor the right, for the righteous right hand guides him for all days.
Rae Carson
#93. It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Jesus Christ
#94. I believe also that often the Evil One works through second causes. And I know that he can impel his victims to do evil in such a way that the blame falls on a righteous man, and the Evil One rejoices then as the righteous man is burned in the place of his succubus.
Umberto Eco
#95. A lot of people think that Christianity is you doing all the righteous things you hate and avoiding all the wicked things you love in order to go to Heaven. No, that's a lost man with religion. A Christian is a person whose heart has been changed; they have new affections.
Paul Washer
#96. These captive men are the hidden price for a hiden lie: the righteous must be able to locate the damned.
James Baldwin
#97. 15 m The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous n and his ears toward their cry.
Anonymous
#98. The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.
Solomon
#99. Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.
Solon
#100. Because the path of the righteous man was never supposed to be easy,' I whispered. 'Those who are chosen by the Lord are given a hard journey. The rewards will come later.
Alexandra Adornetto
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