What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.
The Gospel declares those who believe righteous and saved.
Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing ...
No other work transcends that of righteous, intentional parenting.
Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.
Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.
Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.
Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others
When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe they are sinners, the sinners who believe they are righteous.
God declared me righteous!
Why do not words and kiss, and solemn pledge, And nature that is kind in woman's breast, And reason that in man is wise and good, And fear of Him who is a righteous Judge - Why do not these prevail for human life, To keep two hearts together, that be
A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it
The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [Lat., Di pia facta vident.]
The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.
We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.
The gods behold all righteous actions.
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.
Our religion teaches that anger is a great sin, even if it is "righteous".
Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.