Top 97 Righteous Man Quotes
#1. The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.
Solomon
#2. In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#3. If there is but one God, then why must blood be shed to prove whose God he is? Does the Father not belong to all of us as we belong to him? Do you think he'll call me a righteous man when I've killed one of his sons?
P.A. Minyard
#4. A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
Anonymous
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. I feel sad for the righteous man who cannot find understanding or compassion for a magnificent sinner like me.
David Zailer
#10. 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.
Buddha
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.
Solomon
#15. 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
#16. Religion is usually the tool the self-righteous man uses to exalt himself.
Matt Chandler
#17. Ecclesiastes 7:20 clearly sounds the futility of legalism: There is not a righteous man on earth / who does what is right and never sins.
Beth Moore
#18. Aye me, how many perils do enfold
The righteous man, to make him daily fall?
Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold,
And steadfast truth acquite him out of all.
Edmund Spenser
#19. Baby can you dig your man? He is a righteous man!
Stephen King
#20. A righteous man is honest, even to his own undoing.
D.J. Molles
#21. Though the growing may be difficult, God will be glorified at the end of every righteous man's story.
Bodie Thoene
#22. For they are rebellious against You. But let all who take refuge in You be glad, Let them ever sing for joy; And may You shelter them, That those who love Your name may exult in You. For it is You who blesses the righteous man, O LORD, You surround him with favor as with a shield. (Psalm 5)
Charles R. Swindoll
#23. The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.
Clement Of Alexandria
#24. Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#25. If heaven was created only for the most stupid clown, then Mr Bean could have been the only righteous man on earth.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#26. The righteous man pays the sinner's bill.
Jose Rizal
#27. We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.
Henry David Thoreau
#29. The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.
George Bernard Shaw
#30. We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.
Maimonides
#31. 10 A righteous man cares about his animal's health,
Anonymous
#32. The real issue lies in the North beyond the Wall. Stannis becomes one of the few characters fully to understand that, which is why in spite of everything he is a righteous man.
George R R Martin
#33. 10 The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.
Anonymous
#34. 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.
Sheri L. Dew
#35. How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
Edmund Spenser
#36. No man can have anything better after faith than a woman of righteous character, loving and child-bearing. And no man can have anything worse after unbelief than a sharp-tongued woman of bad character.
Umar
#37. A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous ...
John Calvin
#38. Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom he is defiled by. Is there anything anyone can do, to become righteous, anyway? God made us impure. If he had a problem with that, He would have made us gods, instead.
C. JoyBell C.
#39. My mother used to always tell me that my father was a man who fought for the weak. He had courage and righteous heart. In the name of my father, I will kill Mundus!
Dante Alighieri
#40. A Johnson honours his obligations. His word is good and he is a good man to do business with. A Johnson minds his own business. He is not a snoopy self-righteous trouble-making person. A Johnson will give help when neeeded.
William S. Burroughs
#41. If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals.
Leo Tolstoy
#42. In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.
Criss Jami
#43. The wise teach, the righteous learn from them; the foolish disregard any knowledge handed to them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#44. 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
#45. Say, "I am only a man like you, to whom has been revealed that your god is one God. So whoever would hope for the meeting with his Lord - let him do righteous work and not associate in the worship of his Lord anyone.
Qur'an
#46. A foolish man clings to wrong views, mocks the teaching of the righteous, and invites ruin and destruction.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#47. You see, fallen man, in his pride, either thinks he has not fallen at all or that he can lift himself up, by himself, and make himself righteous on his own merits.
Matthew Christian Harding
#48. Still, it baffles me that these self-righteous, self-enthralled waddlers get such special treatment. As if it's so hard to spread your legs and let a man ejaculate between them. You know what is hard? Faking
Gillian Flynn
#49. It felt good to stand out from the world, just mysterious and pious. You weren't a lantern under any basquet. You stood out righteous as a sore thumb. You were the one holy man to keep God from crushing all of the Sodom and Gomorrah seething around you in the Valley Plaza Shoping Center.
Chuck Palahniuk
#50. Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.
Randy Alcorn
#51. There is nothing absurd in the doctrine, that though man is justified by faith, he is himself not only not righteous, but the righteousness attributed to his works is beyond their own deserts.
John Calvin
#52. I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.
Peter Ustinov
#53. What we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#54. 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
#55. God's judgment is not like man's judgment. It is not a suspension of His Love but an extension of His Love. His justice is always righteous, so His judgment is always Love.
Criss Jami
#56. A man isn't as good as his word, he's as good as his Actions.
James Miller
#57. To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought is terrifying.
Paul Washer
#58. 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
#59. No,' said Gould, with an unusual and convincing gravity; 'I do not believe that being perfectly good in all respects would make a man merry.'
'Well,' said Michael quietly, 'will you tell me one thing? Which of us has ever tried it?
G.K. Chesterton
#60. If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
Albert Einstein
#61. Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.
Thomas A Kempis
#62. The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.
F.F. Bruce
#63. The government of heaven, if wickedly administered, would become one of the worst governments upon the face of the earth. No matter how good a government is, unless it is administered by righteous men, an evil government will be made of it.
Brigham Young
#64. Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world because He is the only One who can bridge the gap between Heaven and earth. The Bible says, "By one Man's obedience many will be made righteous" (Romans 5:19 NKJV).
Billy Graham
#65. Nor I, I don't think there could be a situation like that. Love is shining and righteous; there's nothing hidden about it. If a man 's heart is really ardent, how can he give the appearance of being cold and disinterested?
Ba Jin
#66. What the Scriptures testify is that the Law was given until the time appointed for man to receive the indwelling Spirit of Christ. Those who have received the Holy Spirit are new creations. They are born of righteous seed. The Law was not made for such as these. I
Joseph Herrin
#67. It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.
Hesiod
#68. Man to God: "I've let you down so many times."
God to man: "You weren't holding me up. I uphold you with My righteous right hand. That's how it works in this relationship. I - hold - you - up.
The Skit Guys
#69. You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of your own policy. Whether you like it or not, that's the highest effectiveness man has achieved.
Norman Mailer
#70. There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly righteous, are brought down low by their envy. A true man will be known by his absence of envy. An evil man will be known by the presence of envy within him.
C. JoyBell C.
#71. 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.
Joseph Butler
#72. Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
Pindar
#73. There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.
Joe R. Lansdale
#74. Brigham Young observed, "Man's machinery makes things alike" (JD 9:370), while God gives to seemingly like individuals pleasing differences. Secularism is no friend of righteous individuality.
Neal A. Maxwell
#75. Ty was a force to be reckoned with, though, fueled by betrayal and pain and righteous anger. Neither man could make any headway with him, and so Nick had remained upstairs, unconscious and handcuffed to the brand-new bed Ty had bought Zane as a wedding present. Ty
Abigail Roux
#76. To love a man enough to help him, you have to forfeit the warm, self-righteous glow that comes from judging.
Ron Hall
#77. Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does right, but loves to do right.
Francis William Newman
#78. Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.
Ken Kesey
#79. Oasis were the last great, traditional rock-n'-roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had to be there. It makes me feel like a righteous old man.
Noel Gallagher
#80. Americans like what is easy, and it's easy to like pregnant women - they're like ducklings or bunnies or dogs. Still, it baffles me that these self-righteous, self-enthralled waddlers get such special treatment. As if it's so hard to spread your legs and let a man ejaculate between them.
Gillian Flynn
#81. If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour's eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour's case.
Benjamin Whichcote
#82. A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.
Henry David Thoreau
#83. To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a 'righteous' form of prostitution.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#84. Any man may believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and be happy in that belief, and yet not obey his commandments, and at last be cut down for disobedience to the Lord's righteous requirements.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#85. Oh, foisted, is it?" cried Mr. Ormiston in righteous indignation. "Such a word! And if it means what I think it does, young man, you should get down on your knees and thank God for such foistingness!
Diana Gabaldon
#86. A careful regulation of the economic impulses of society was considered as essential to man's spiritual welfare as it was to his material well-being. There was a righteous price in commerce, based on considerations of morality, as well as an economic price, reflecting the laws of supply and demand.
Lacey Baldwin Smith
#87. Outward things are promiscuously dispensed, and no man's spiritual estate is discernible by the view of his temporal. When God draws the sword, it may cut off the righteous as well as the wicked,
John Flavel
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. A righteous wife can make a poor man feel like a king.
Boonaa Mohammed
#92. In taking stock of a politician, the first question is not whether he was a good man who used righteous means, but whether he was successful in gaining power, in keeping it, and in governing; whether, in short, he was skilful at his particular craft or a bungler.
Frederick Scott Oliver
#93. 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
#94. We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that it consists in the remission of sins and the imputation of Christ's righteousness.
John Calvin
#95. Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.
Charles Kingsley
#96. There is no man in creation who is not your brother No woman not your sister, no child not your own For all suffer the Plague, righteous and sinful alike And all must band together to withstand the night.
Peter V. Brett
#97. If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be.
Shannon L. Alder
