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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

  Men, Class, Greater

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.51, University of Michigan Press

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• A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

  Solomon

  Fathers Day, Lying, Hate

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• We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.

  J. C. Ryle

  Children, Self, Disease

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• 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

  Men, Self, Doe

  Twitter post from Oct 03, 2013

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• All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.

  Mason Cooley

  Anger, Sorrow, Doe

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• A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Children, Father, Protect

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• When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. The righteousness by which a person is justified (declared righteous) is not his own but that of another, Christ.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Have Faith, Action

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• When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Believe, Unions

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• The Lord Jesus died for the ungodly. He was obedient at all costs : He bore everything, and went down into the dust of death, man's hatred, God's desertion, and Satan's power ; we find Him there at the cost of everything. Everything that was against us was done away. By one man's obedience many are made righteous.

  John Nelson Darby

  Jesus, Men, Dust

  Walter Thomas Turpin, John Nelson Darby, Some Authors Unknown, W. H. Broom (2015). “The Christian's Friend and Instructor: Christian Magazine Volume 3, 1876 Edition”, p.42, Irving Risch

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• One is not righteous who does much, but the one who, without work, believes much in Christ. The law says, 'Do this,' and it is never done. Grace says, 'Believe in this,' and everything is already done.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Law, Grace

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.56, Fortress Press

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• I am righteous and righteously indignant, the Tea Party is righteously indignant, and our goal is to not just save the country, but quite frankly, if America goes, so goes the world, so in our desire to save the country, we are trying to save the world.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Country, Party, America

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don’t fit where you don’t belong

  Richard G. Scott

  Grateful, Mold, Fit

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• Why forgive one who wrongs you? Because if you angrily strike back you misrepresent your own divine soul nature-you are no better than your offender. But if you manifest spiritual strength you are blessed, and the power of your righteous behavior will also help the other person to overcome his misunderstanding.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Blessed, Soul

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1969). “Self-realization Magazine”

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• To be "in Christ" is to place one's trust in Him for salvation from sin. To be "in Christ" is to trust His goodness, not our own; to trust that His sacrificial death on the cross paid the complete debt of death we owe for our sin; to trust that His resurrection gives us eternal life instead of relying upon our own ability to please God. To be "in Christ" is to claim, by faith, the free gift of salvation. To be "in Christ" is to enjoy a completely restored relationship with our Father in heaven by virtue of His Son's righteous standing.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Father, Son, Free Gifts

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• In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Numbers, Generations, Christianity

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• People who think of God as a warrior may become warriors themselves, whether in a Christian crusade, a Muslim jihad, or an apocalyptically oriented militia. People who think of God as righteous are likely to emphasize righteousness themselves, just as those who think of God as compassionate are likely to emphasize compassion. People who think God is angry at the world are likely to be angry at the world themselves.

  Marcus Borg

  Christian, Warrior, Thinking

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• God has nothing to say to the self-righteous. Unless you humble yourself before Him in the dust, and confess before Him your iniquities and sins, the gate of heaven, which is open only for sinners, saved by grace, must be shut against you forever.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Humble, Self, Dust

  Dwight L Moody (1897). “God's Good News”, p.36, Moody Publishers

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• We have a God-given commission, but it is not a commission to be self-righteous know-it-alls- quite the contrary. Our work in God's world begins with the acknowledgment that we are not God, and that our most bitter rivals are made in God's image.

  John C. Danforth

  Self, World, Rivals

  "Faith and Politics". Book by John Danforth, p. 166, September 19, 2006.

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• The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land, we should soon see a massacre of the righteous. Jesus was watched by his enemies, who were thirsting for his blood: his disciples must not look for favour where their Master found hatred and death.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Blood, Law

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2015). “Spurgeon on the Psalms Book Two: Psalm 26 through Psalm 50”, p.181, Bridge Logos Inc

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• When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called clerical somebody), a righteous or unrighteous man,...and throws himself into the arms of God...then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, that is metanoia and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Giving Up, Men

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.22, SCM Press

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• Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself Be laid in stillness, and the universe Quiver and breathe upon no mirror more.

  George Eliot

  Mirrors, Pulse, Done

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.792, George Eliot

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• It is not true that if we had true faith we would not be sad. Prophets (as), and righteous people experienced a great deal of sadness. The Quran is full of stories in which the central theme is sadness. Sadness is a reality of life. The Quran is not there to eliminate sadness, but to navigate it. Sadness is one of the tests of life, just as happiness, and anger are tests.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Sadness, Reality, People

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• God has nothing to say to the self-righteous.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Self, Self Righteous, Self Righteousness

  Dwight L Moody (1897). “God's Good News”, p.36, Moody Publishers

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• The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Divine Revelation, Judgment, Lord

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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• Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Failure, Men

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