Martin Luther
Theologian
"We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds."
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Righteous
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things."
Sri Aurobindo
Philosopher, Poet, Politician
"Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured."
Lauryn Hill
Singer, Songwriter
"It's more important to be righteous than to be right."
Plutarch
Philosopher, Historian
"Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature."
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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."
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"God is righteous in making the sinner righteous."
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"Time is the best preserver of righteous men."
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"A righteous person is one who lives for the next generation."
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"There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing."
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"Those who are self-righteous are not prominent."
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"Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing."
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"Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others"
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"There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money."
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"We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing."
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"The righteous one has no sense of humor."
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"The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [Lat., Di pia facta vident.]"
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"Righteous people have no sense of humor."
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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."
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"Our religion teaches that anger is a great sin, even if it is "righteous"."
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"The gods behold all righteous actions."
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"Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend."
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"The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God."
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