Unrighteousness Quotes

#1. Both religiousness and lawlessness share the same problems: overconfidence and unrighteousness. "Why do bad things happen to good people?" we might ask - the very question that betrays our misplaced assumption that we somehow deserve a good life.

Tim Chaddick

#2. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Anonymous

#3. The more you understand the magnitude of God's grace, the more accurate will be your view of the depth of your unrighteousness ; and the more you understand the depth of your unrighteousness , the more you will appreciate the magnitude of God's gift of grace.

Paul David Tripp

#4. God's wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.

J.I. Packer

#5. There must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness.

Janet Morris

#6. By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.

Rabindranath Tagore

#7. Unrighteousness. Ah! how ineptly cometh the word "virtue" out of their mouth! And when they say: "I am just," it always soundeth like: "I am just - revenged!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. No true Christian can endure in battling unrighteousness unless his heart is aflame with new spiritual affections, or passions. "Mere knowledge is confessedly too weak. The affections alone remain to supply the deficiency."1

John Piper

#9. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

Plato

#10. I'm just another sinner in need of his God & Savior, everyday in his life. All sin is wrong and unrighteousness in the perfect & holy eyes of God.

Timothy Pina

#11. Making an open stand against all the ungodliness and unrighteousness which overspreads our land as a flood is one of the noblest ways of confessing Christ in the face of His enemies.

John Wesley

#12. I do not want to die, Croaker. All that I am shrieks against the unrighteousness of death. All that I am, was, and probably will be, is shaped by my passion to evade the end of me.

Glen Cook

#13. As we Christians strive to be more influenced by God's kingdom than by this world, we're reminded we will sometimes slip, but 'if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness' (1 John 1:9).

Van Harden

#14. And others are proud of their modicum of righteousness, and for the sake of it do violence to all things: so that the world is drowned in their unrighteousness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. Unless we know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, concupiscence, weakness, wretchedness and unrighteousness, we are truly blind. And if someone knows all this and does not desire to be saved, what can be said of him?

Blaise Pascal

#16. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.

Swami Vivekananda

#17. Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder, is the people's lack of religious faith and the fact that they are uneducated.

Abdu'l- Baha

#18. For we always seem to ourselves righteous and upright and wise and holy - this pride is innate in all of us - unless by clear proofs we stand convinced of our own unrighteousness, foulness, folly, and impurity.

John Calvin

#19. Courtesy "Doth not behave itself unseemly." Unselfishness "Seeketh not its own." Good temper "Is not provoked." Guilelessness "Taketh not account of evil." Sincerity "Rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth.

Henry Drummond

#20. She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.

Richard Brookhiser

#21. I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold War receded, shaped by the tragedy of 9/11, connected by the digital revolution and determined to re-elect the man who will make the 21st century another American century - President Barack Obama.

Julian Castro

#22. I grew up surrounded by these tough, ballsy, strong women. They were also adoring women, but they were the kind of women who would argue over what kind of pants you were wearing or the color of your nail polish.

Michael Kors

#23. That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.

Erica Jong

#24. Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

Gene Siskel

#25. To be a priest,' writes Barbara Brown Taylor, 'is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are.

Rachel Held Evans

#26. It feels a lot colder when you're shoveling snow than when you're building a snow fort.

Cynthia Lewis

#27. From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is.

Don King

#28. Are you happy?"
Same question he asked me every day, and I always gave the same honest answer. "You are my happiness.

Pam Godwin

#29. Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

Larry McMurtry

#30. On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues ... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.

Dan Feuerriegel

#31. Then you came along and helped me believe in myself again.

Nicholas Sparks

#32. You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.

Adrian Tan

#33. Robert Ludlum, all of them, write the absolute best they can. You can't tone it down. You just do what you do, and if it comes out literary, so be it.

Alan Furst