Righteous Life Quotes

#1. The home is the basis of a righteous life and no other instrumentality can take its place nor fulfill its essential functions.

David O. McKay

#2. Our decision every day must be to live a righteous life - not in our own strength, but by the enablement of the Holy Spirit in us. We must acknowledge that we depend on God and choose to live our life for Him. Even though we are a new creation, we still must decide to live like we are.

Stormie O'martian

#3. If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

Albert Einstein

#4. 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.

John Piper

#5. Peace is the precious fruit of a righteous life. It is possible because of the Atonement of the Savior. It is earned through full repentance, for that leads to refreshing forgiveness.

Richard G. Scott

#6. If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals.

Leo Tolstoy

#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. Pave the path for a more righteous life.

Truth Devour

#9. Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don't fit where you don't belong

Richard G. Scott

#10. Jesus Christ is the way of gaining a father, the path of a pure and righteous life without fornication, lust or adultery

Sunday Adelaja

#11. If you live a righteous life, then you should be exalted above situations and circumstances in life

Sunday Adelaja

#12. It is clear that no one can be made right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, "It is through faith that a righteous person has life."*

Anonymous

#13. It is not possible to live happily if one does not lead a beautiful, righteous, and wise life, or to lead a beautiful, righteous, and wise life if one is not happy. EPICURUS

Matthieu Ricard

#14. 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.

Al Franken

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#18. Hate or Jealousy will not Give any Solution only Tears on the Long Run, because a Winner is a Fighter for their Rights and Chances in Life.

Jan Jansen

#19. (Thinking while being interrogated by the Germans) You big shots think you can decide on my life, but I have news for you: you can't touch a hair on my head without the will of God my Father, because He is on my side.

Diet Eman

#20. Instead of preaching the good news that sinners can be made righteous in Christ and escape the wrath to come, the gospel has degenerated into the pretext that we can be happy in Christ and escape the hassles of life.

Ray Comfort

#21. The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.

Leonard Ravenhill

#22. Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it through and decide if that was right or wrong myself.

Tsugumi Ohba

#23. I couldn't make it this far in life without God's promises because His promises are the symbol of His righteous right hand carries me through every single situation. His promises are Yes and Amen.

Euginia Herlihy

#24. I fear that many people seek to hear God solely as a device for obtaining their own safety, comfort and sense of being righteous. For those who busy themselves to know the will of God, however, it is still true that "those who want to save their life will lose it" (Mt 16:25).

Dallas Willard

#25. Life isn't like the movies. People don't change overnight. people don't go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don't suddenly give in when they've spent years taking out. No doesn't magically become a Yes.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#26. 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

#27. The Statist veils his pursuits in moral indignation, intoning in high dudgeon the injustices and inequities of liberty and life itself, for which only he can provide justice and bring a righteous resolution.

Mark Levin

#28. Seeing all life
in perfect symmetry.
Perceiving each day
with righteous clarity.
Living each moment
in purposed reality.
Believing each day
is the start of eternity.

S. Tarr

#29. Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us active in living righteous lives and doing good. There is no self-confidence to compare with this.

Huldrych Zwingli

#30. If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it's own reward?

Marquis De Sade

#31. To me it was real war and my life was at stake, and I believe that all those clandestine spy games we played as children helped when the Occupation came.

Diet Eman

#32. 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

#33. Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.

Beck

#34. Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.

Thomas S. Monson

#35. The law of the fast benefits both those who fast and those who stand in need ... In addition to providing the means for taking care of the poor among us, fasting is a principle of power which helps us to individually achieve righteous purposes in our lives.

Victor L. Brown

#36. When you forget mercy, you name yourself as righteous and deserving, and you live an entitled and demanding life.

Paul David Tripp

#37. If ever I did a good deed in my life - if ever I thought a good thought - if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer - if ever I wished a righteous wish, - I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth.

Charlotte Bronte

#38. Me can't be prejudice. Me can't me no think of life that way. Because, me figure if you prejudice, that mean you have a hate. If you have a hate inside of you, you can't be righteous.

Bob Marley

#39. Righteous indignation are the very clothes that liars wear

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#40. 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

#41. The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth.

Steven Pinker

#42. Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.

Thomas A Kempis

#43. Now if you'll excuse me, real life is calling and there's no room for self-righteous, delusional little girls. Big boys only.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#44. 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

#45. I learned to be wary that summer of a pious approach to life that saw good intentions and righteous prayer as substitutes for planning and pragmatic action.

Krista Tippett

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

Ally Condie

#47. The witness of solid moral character to a righteous way of life must never be underestimated.

Arthur F. Holmes

#48. The Kingdom of God is about peace, love, joy and righteousness

Sunday Adelaja

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. Every man at some point in his life needs to be tested so he can find out if he's a righteous man or an indifferent one.

Dannika Dark

#52. The atmospheric intensity of two electric lovers is the most righteous place I need to rediscover.

Steven Storm

#53. As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.

Ira Sachs

#54. Our sins are forgiven and we are accepted as righteous by God because of both the sinless life and sin-bearing death of our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no greater motivation for dealing with sin in our lives than the realization of these two glorious truths of the gospel.

Jerry Bridges

#55. How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality, splendor with righteous, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness! And all these things are within our comprehension.

Pope Clement I

#56. Redemption. What a laughable concept. When he looked over his life, he couldn't see where he had first stepped off the righteous path. More important, had he even ever laid a single foot on that path?

Michael R. Fletcher

#57. I've been a non-believer all of my life, but I'd drop to my knees and sing the praises of any righteous god who collapsed this Tower of Babel and scattered men across the Earth in a million virile, competing cultures, tribes, and gangs.

Jack Donovan

#58. Your religion is not what you do on Sunday. It is how you live Monday through Saturday.

Shannon L. Alder

#59. The devil hates the people who build the broken walls, he detests those who restore them

Sunday Adelaja

#60. Life everywhere is in vast and endless variety. So it is with life eternal, that gift of God, constituting, in its length and breadth and height and depth, the reward of the righteous. The penitent, dying thief is not going into heaven like the triumphant, dying Paul.

Herrick Johnson

#61. Nothing is more uplifting in all of life than righteous anger.

Philip Roth

#62. Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response to terror is righteous anger, confidence in ultimate justice, a refusal to be intimidated.

Dean Koontz

#63. Choices makes us, choices made at mire proves a person to be righteous or evil. It depends on us to be vanquished or to stand indomitable to a predicament.

Prakash Guru

#64. Sheldon Vanauken wrote that the strongest argument for Christianity is Christians, when they are drawing life from God. The strongest argument against Christianity? Also Christians, when they become exclusive, self-righteous, and complacent.

John Ortberg

#65. ...there are a lot of self-righteous people out there. And if you try to adjust your life to please them...you're just going to go crazy and risk being as unhappy as these self-righteous kooks are.

Ellen DeGeneres

#66. Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#67. Esoteric words neither make us holy nor righteous; only a virtuous life makes us beloved of God. I would rather experience repentance in my soul than know how to define it.

Thomas A Kempis

#68. Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow, they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.

Eugene Ionesco

#69. Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.

Nick Hornby

#70. Critics are those righteous experts who judge other people's hard earned accomplishmens as they themselves stand on the sidelines of life.

Aaron Lauritsen

#71. In solitude I get rid of my scaffolding ...
Solitude molds self-righteous people into gentle, caring, forgiving persons who are so deeply convinced of their own great sinfulness and so fully aware of God's even greater mercy that their life itself becomes ministry.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#72. What will help you to press forward and continually hold fast to the iron rod? Center your life on the Savior and develop daily habits of righteous living.

Mary N. Cook

#73. DAY 10 Thinking about My Purpose POINT TO PONDER: The heart of worship is surrender. VERSE TO REMEMBER: "Surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes." ROMANS 6:13B (TEV) QUESTION TO CONSIDER: What area of my life am I holding back from God?

Rick Warren

#74. Profound theology doesn't make anyone righteous; what pleases me is an exemplary life. Regret for wrongdoing is better than knowing its definition.

Thomas A Kempis

#75. Human self-righteousness denies the need for the saving, enabling grace of Christ. Human righteousness embraces the cruelest of Satan's lies, that a person can be righteous by keeping the law. If that were true, there would have been no need for the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

Paul David Tripp

#76. It is absolutely necessary that we live a righteous and a Godly life and be an example of a virtuous man to other people. Our authority and power in the spirit realm will be unlimited if we will fully put ourselves under the laws of God.

Sunday Adelaja

#77. I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage.
I've found that just surviving is a noble fight.
I once believed in causes too; I had my pointless points of view.
And life went on no matter who as wrong or right.

Billy Joel

#78. Again, a conversation with the doctor. We always come back to the same point: "The church may not mix in politics." he says. And I tell him that when you are a Christian and profess that God is almighty, there is no single area of life from which you can eliminate God. -From the diary of Diet Eman

Diet Eman

#79. Running in desperate fear for your life is pretty much a righteous justification for eating junkfood.

Harold Koontz

#80. The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

George Bernard Shaw

#81. Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.

C.S. Lewis

#82. 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

#83. Damn it, I'm angry now. I do believe life is loss, I do, but my suffering-to-words-ratio was out of control: lying around composing nothing but these - righteous arias, month after month, these tawdry special pleas.

Gwendoline Riley

#84. Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights, drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.

Bobby Bare

#85. u The mouth of the righteous is v a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked n conceals violence.

Anonymous

#86. Our sphere of influence should reflect righteousness

Sunday Adelaja

#87. Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself Be laid in stillness, and the universe Quiver and breathe upon no mirror more.

George Eliot

#88. I cover his hand with my own: "The Champion must not waver," he says in my ear. "Yea, though SHE pass through the shadow of darkness, SHE shall not fear, for God's righteous right hand shall sustain her and give her new life triumphant.

Rae Carson

#89. What a failure her life had been. Would she have lied to God if she'd had more faith, been more righteous? How could she possibly have a son at her age? And yet, if she had believed all along . . .

Jill Eileen Smith

#90. Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#91. The Lord trieth the righteous. - Psalm 11:5 ALL events are under the control of Providence; consequently all the trials of our outward life are traceable at once to the great First Cause.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#92. Normality may lie in being a selectively deaf self-righteous victim of your own cognitive dissonance...but then again...who wants to be an open minded but self-doubting fence-sitter paralyzed by internal conflict? life eh?

Tweedy Peanut

#93. No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.

Mitt Romney

#94. Even with the trials of life, because of the Savior's Atonement and his grace, righteous living will be rewarded with personal peace.

Quentin L. Cook