#righteous

I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say. ↗

— Bette Midler

#celebrate #enough #everyone #good #holidays

When you think yours is the only true path you forever chain yourself to judging others and narrow the vision of God. The road to righteousness and arrogance is a parallel road that can intersect each other several times throughout a person's life. It’s often hard to recognize one road from another. What makes them different is the road to righteousness is paved with the love of humanity. The road to arrogance is paved with the love of self. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#self-righteousness #life

Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#advance #boldly #done #endless #find

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#men #only #righteous #sinners #think

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#make #must #our people #people #righteousness

After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer and then armed robbery. ↗

— Diet Eman

#god #holocaust #jesus-christ #righteous-gentile #wwii

For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another. ↗

— Criss Jami

#christianity #fearless #flaws #honesty #humble

I know two kinds of Christians, those that love and those that love to be right. ↗

— Jim Sterling

#christianity #love #right #righteous #love

I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#christ #fast #god #hold #i

Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have. ↗

— Flavius Josephus

#city #commendation #eminent #father #great