#righteous

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

My future is righteousness. ↗

— Bob Marley

#righteousness

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

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help? ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#humility #penitence #righteousness #sovereignty #love

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

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people. ↗

— Charles L. Allen

#bad people #defense #god #hardest #know

(Thinking while being interrogated by the Germans) You big shots think you can decide on my life, but I have news for you: you can't touch a hair on my head without the will of God my Father, because He is on my side. ↗

— Diet Eman

#germany #god #holocaust #jesus-christ #prison

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#been #boring #dull #image #left

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

And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#going #i #i think #improvement #know