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We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.
Martin Luther
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Whoever raises a righteous child, it is as if he did not die.
Rashi
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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
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Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
Sri Aurobindo
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The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.
R. C. Sproul
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Righteous women have changed the course of history and will continue to do so, and their influence will spread and grow exponentially throughout the eternities.
Julie B. Beck
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It's more important to be righteous than to be right.
Lauryn Hill
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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
Plutarch
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
Clarence Darrow
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God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
Ramakrishna
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It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
Nikolai Gogol
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A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence.
Howard W. Hunter
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God is righteous in making the sinner righteous.
Joseph Prince
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I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.
Moses Coady
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Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
Pindar
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To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.
Criss Jami
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There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.
Swami Vivekananda
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Make account that thou hast done nothing, and then thou hast done all. For if, being sinners, when we account ourselves to be what we are, we become righteous, as indeed the Publican did; how much more, when being righteous we account ourselves to be sinners.
Saint John Chrysostom
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Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence.
David A. Bednar
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History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
Wole Soyinka
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Those who are self-righteous are not prominent.
Laozi
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No other work transcends that of righteous, intentional parenting.
Russell M. Nelson
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We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.
Simone Weil
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It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.
Hesiod
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One of the best ways to celebrate righteous history is to make more of it, make more righteous history!
Spencer W. Kimball
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
Dallas Willard
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There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.
Andrew Carnegie
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Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others
Elbert Hubbard
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When you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous.
Shaquille O'Neal
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We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.
John Piper
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The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you're right, you're still left feeling indignant.
Bill Crawford
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The gods see the deeds of the righteous.
[Lat., Di pia facta vident.]
Ovid
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Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.
Gary Zukav
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It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable.
Roger Ebert
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No one can tell what is righteous and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
Tsugumi Ohba
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An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.
Walter Raleigh
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There's no fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.
Don Paterson
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Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.
Ursula K. Le Guin