Righteous
Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution.
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Righteous Quotations
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Socrates
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
Martin Luther
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
Blaise Pascal
The gods behold all righteous actions.
Ovid
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
Horace
Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one.
Theodor Herzl
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
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
Righteous Translations
righteous in Afrikaans is regverdig, billik
righteous in Dutch is billijk, rechtvaardig, fair
righteous in Finnish is oikeudenmukainen
righteous in French is moral, juste
righteous in German is rechtschaffen, rechtschaffene
righteous in Italian is dabbene
righteous in Spanish is honrado, virtuoso
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