A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. Votes: 7
Gilbert K. ChestertonAll men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. Votes: 7
SocratesConstitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people. Votes: 4
Ezra Taft BensonThere are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother. Votes: 4
Boyd K. PackerIt's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable. Votes: 4
Nikolai GogolLove increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence. Votes: 3
David A. BednarThere's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality. Votes: 3
Laurell K. HamiltonWhen you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous. Votes: 3
Shaquille O'NealAn orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation. Votes: 3
Malcolm MuggeridgeBy making choices consistent with eternal truth you will develop righteous character. Votes: 3
Richard G. ScottSelf-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will. Votes: 3
Donald MillerThe self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness. Votes: 3
Mason CooleyEvery righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs. Votes: 3
Gordon B. HinckleyIdleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste. Votes: 3
Sylvia Townsend WarnerThe self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong. Votes: 3
Mason CooleyLeaders need to cultivate two things: a righteous heart and a rhinoceros skin. Votes: 3
Charles R. SwindollO time! whose verdicts mock our own, the only righteous judge art thou! Votes: 3
Thomas William ParsonsThe best of knowledge and righteous acts are those hidden to the people. Votes: 3
Al-Fudhayl ibn IyyadhYoung people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things. Votes: 3
John DarnielleWhosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird. Votes: 3
Woody AllenWhen the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan. Votes: 3
William PatersonJustification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes. Votes: 3
Kevin DeYoungThe righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth. Votes: 3
George Bernard ShawI am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation. Votes: 3
Clarence DarrowRedemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed, Votes: 3
Ravi ZachariasWe should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing ... Votes: 3
Simone WeilI'm a citizen of the only righteous nation in the Universe-the Kingdom of Jesus Christ! Votes: 3
David BergServants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend. Votes: 3
HomerRighteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering. Votes: 3
Aleksander KwasniewskiI do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation. Votes: 3
Norman MailerOf course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption. Votes: 3
Dallas WillardA righteous God isn't bound by time. He has an eternity to make things right. Votes: 3
Shannon DittemoreThere are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil. Votes: 3
Ezra Taft BensonIn scorching heat of reality, Thou hast unfolds a shade of thyself for the righteous. Votes: 3
Jamil HussainThe witness of solid moral character to a righteous way of life must never be underestimated. Votes: 3
Arthur F. HolmesVultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature. Votes: 3
PlutarchThe atmospheric intensity of two electric lovers is the most righteous place I need to rediscover. Votes: 3
Steven StormThere is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money. Votes: 3
Andrew CarnegieCensors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane. Votes: 3
Audrey MeadowsThere's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable. Votes: 3
Joe R. LansdaleIn every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them. Votes: 3
Aiden Wilson TozerI must kill some memories,the heavy ones first and aftermake righteous of my un-even soul. Votes: 3
Evelyn Leilou ColonAll anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not. Votes: 3
Mason CooleyWe are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam. Votes: 3
J. C. RyleWe are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. Votes: 3
Mignon McLaughlinHappiness is a condition of the soul. This joyous state comes as a result of righteous living. Votes: 3
Benjamin De HoyosAwful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous. Votes: 3
Charles BuckBe grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don't fit where you don't belong Votes: 3
Richard G. ScottIf a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food Votes: 3
Leo Nikolaevich TolstoyTake those kids and raise them up, teach them how to drink out of a righteous cup. Votes: 3
James BrownIf a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. Votes: 3
Albert EinsteinAm I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me. Votes: 3
Henry RollinsNo one can tell what is righteous and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil. Votes: 3
Tsugumi OhbaTell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds. Votes: 3
IsaiahIn the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin. Votes: 3
Ezra Taft BensonWe will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God. Votes: 3
John PiperHELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous. Votes: 3
Alice WalkerLearned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God. Votes: 3
Thomas a KempisI like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I'm not trying to get out of anything. Votes: 3
Lil' KimA town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it. Votes: 3
Henry David ThoreauIt is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right. Votes: 3
HesiodRighteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others Votes: 2
Elbert HubbardIt needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous. Votes: 2
Eric HofferThe Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel. Votes: 2
Tullian TchividjianOur religion teaches that anger is a great sin, even if it is "righteous". Votes: 2
Swami Vivekananda..Advantage of the Bible is that it is profitable for training in righteous living. Votes: 2
Howard G. HendricksClean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.
Fats DominoThe idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background. Votes: 3 Jon Voight
The Lord our God reigns!The Lord our God is righteous! Votes: 3 Lailah Gifty Akita
I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world. Votes: 1 Caitlin Moran
Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remained neutral with both sides, although not agreeing with either as to the righteousness of their respective orders. Votes: 1 George William Norris
Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused Votes: 2 Brennan Manning
Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong. Votes: 2 Pema Chodron
God's own hand Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him The end of all our ends is, but with us Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this At least is ours, to make them righteous. Votes: 3 Algernon Charles Swinburne
Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness. Votes: 1 Marcus Garvey
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. Votes: 1 Albert Einstein
Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs. Votes: 3 Gordon B. Hinckley
Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane. Votes: 3 Audrey Meadows
Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time. Votes: 8 Dave Van Ronk
The Republicans have a high Beady-Eyed Self-Righteous Scary Borderline Loon Quotient, as evidenced by Phyllis Schlafly, Pat Robertson, the entire state of Utah, etc. Votes: 3 Dave Barry
Noah walked with God; he didn't only preach righteousness, he acted it. He went through water and didn't melt. He breasted the current of the popular opinion of his day, scorning alike the hatred and ridicule of the scoffers who mocked at the thought of there being but one way of salvation. Votes: 1 Charles Studd