#righteous

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself. ↗

— Criss Jami

#considerate #delight #favor #god #happiness

To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful men who accepted Him and allied themselves to His life, righteousness would show itself as mercy. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#pharisees #righteousness #sin #the-cross #men

The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself. ↗

— Neal A. Maxwell

#latter-day-saints #lds #maxwell #mormon #neal

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

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

If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher. ↗

— Charles Bent

#christ #come #converse #equally #every

More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. ↗

— Glen Cook

#right-and-wrong #righteousness #dreams

I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him. ↗

— Bryan Singer

#adopted #am #another #child #comes

Have times really changed? Don't we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righteously? Don't we today, as always, need God's divine protecting care? Don't we today, as always, continue to be at his mercy and in his debt for the very life he has given us? ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#life #parents #righteousness #change

Faith should be a tool to set us free, not a means to fuel a fascist agenda seeking to impede the civil liberties of the "us"s. The first shall be last and the last shall be first... therefore, those who stand for their Pius self-righteousness in order to trample those they deem inferior will be the 'last' and the poor and oppressed shall be 'first.' If the self-righteous want a lesson on morality, then actually take a lesson from Jesus whose best friend was a former hooker and whose mother was a single parent. ↗

— Cristina Marrero

#faith #jesus #love #politics #self-righteousness