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...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the sam...

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Thy life is safe while any god saves mine.

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SophoclesOedipus at Colonus

Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very...

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Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousnes...

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The philosophies of men surround us. The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not...

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Have times really changed? Don't we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righte...

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Thomas S. MonsonPathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson

At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that consci...

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Whether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at st...

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You never knelt to get anywhere. You are where you are because you're fucking capable, and willing t...

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The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appea...

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The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on thi...

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The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on thi...

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The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on thi...

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The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on thi...

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The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on thi...

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The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on thi...

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The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on thi...

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The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on thi...

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My future is righteousness.

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike t...

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Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous.

Young people today are deeply passionate and crave authentic life based on truth. They're hungry to ...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Jesus never expected us simply to turn the other cheek, go the second mile, bless those who persecut...

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...When a choice will make a real difference in our lives—obvious or not—and when we are living in t...

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In even a clear heart, some righteous acts of the harder kind can stir up a sediment of guilt, but t...

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If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally...

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Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.' Not only do ...

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What do you expect—not indifference or ingratitude?’ (-Miss Benson) ‘It is better not to expect or c...

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But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by rev...

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The heart must be renewed by divine grace, or it will be in vain to seek for purity of life. He who ...

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In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride—it is always considered a sin. Therefore...

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To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful m...

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When a poor soul is somewhat awakened by the terrors of the Lord, then the poor creature, being born...

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A certain beauty in the world is no mark of God's favor, said Mr. Huss. There is no beauty one may n...

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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will ...

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Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap....Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: brea...

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Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass

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Jonathan HaidtThe Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the...

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I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of ...

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This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not ...

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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

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

There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they we...

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It is a shame for anyoneto be well-known for righteousness.It is a great disgrace to feeldistress at...

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Omar KhayyámThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam