The Righteous Suffer Quotes

#1. Evil men flourish. The righteous suffer. The Lord never promises we won't - only that He'll sustain us when the tribulation comes.

Roseanna M. White

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Hey there.' I cleared my throat. 'How are you?'
I'm engaged!'
Incidentally, this is an unacceptable answer to that question.

Sloane Crosley

#5. [D]on't cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go ... Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90)

Stephen Levine

#6. My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!

Cassandra Wilson

#7. Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.

Ram Dass

#8. One of the most influential women of the 20th century? Well, that may be overdoing it. When one thinks of really influential women, my mind turns to Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, ... some of the true political leaders in their own right.

William A. Rusher

#9. They were a pair of people with no middle ground, nothing between polite formalities and an engulfing intimacy

Alice Munro

#10. 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

#11. If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.

Chin-Ning Chu

#12. Even though we were all celebrities to a certain extent, we all looked at each other as family.

Michael W. Smith

#13. We're human beings and the sun is the sun-how can it be bad for you? I don't think anything that's natural can be bad for you

Gwyneth Paltrow

#14. Living toys are something novel,
But it soon wears off somehow.

Philip Larkin

#15. It is my dearest wish to help young artists of our country ... and to assist them in establishing themselves in the art world.

Louis Comfort Tiffany

#16. I'm at a crossroads. I believe I only have one chance to pick the proper direction.

Destin Bays

#17. Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

John Shelton Reed

#18. With every righteous action, we prepare the way for the New Earth on which righteousness will dwell. And bringing justice to those who suffer violence means to bring the light of God's future to them.

Jurgen Moltmann

#19. The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'm not really an indie artist, either. All the best artists have been in the middle.

Bat For Lashes

#20. As I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.

Jodie Foster