#righteous

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language! ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#comfort #country #days #doubt #dreary

I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause. ↗

— Cole Younger

#esteemed #fighting #fought #honorable #i

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#most #profitable #righteous #same #thing

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#carrying #cause #effect #just #law

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ. ↗

— John Woolman

#afflicted #been #christ #clearness #deeply

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#come #doctor #healthy #i #need

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#deceived #discoveries #down #elevation #external

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning. ↗

— James Otis

#dear #eternity #flash #god #god almighty

It's only when we understand [Jesus'] presence in the church as being the fulfillment of God's promise in Zephaniah 3:17 to "quiet you with his love" and "rejoice over you with singing" that a crucial aspect of our salvation comes into perspective. Jesus didn't coldly settle accounts for us. He doesn't bark us into improving ourselves. He united us to himself in the glorious communion he has enjoyed for eternity with his heavenly Father. He resides within us to heal the broken places and refresh cauterized hearts. He sings us into a new mode of existence.... When, as Paul does, we imagine Jesus singing nations into submission to his rule, our hearts come joyfully under the sway of a love that is infinite and powerful. ↗

— Reggie M. Kidd

#justification #obedience #righteousness #song #imagination

Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany. ↗

— Martin Landau

#bad guys #doing #germany #guy #guys