#righteous

If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#christian #honest #honor #hypocrisy #men

When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not merely inferior to them in skill but lower in God's eyes; as the priests said, 'All that rabble who are not experts in the Torah are accursed.' and as this pride increases, the 'subject' or study which confers such privilege will grow more and more complicated, the list of things forbidden will increase, till to get through a single day without supposed sin becomes like an elaborate step-dance, and this horrible network breeds self-righteousness in some and haunting anxiety in others. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#reflections-on-the-psalms #religion #self-righteousness #men

When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title. ↗

— Criss Jami

#discernment #equality #geniune #human #human-being

It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#enough #righteousness #sin

The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall. ↗

— George Whitefield

#angels #christ #desire #fall #first

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#into #person #pours #puritan #righteous

Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee. ↗

— Christopher Love

#condemn #dost #eternal #glorious #hast

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

Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#attended #church #decision #each #eternal

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