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If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.

Theodore Roosevelt
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It is not righteousness to outrageA brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

Sophocles
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The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.

Confucius
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Charlotte Bronte
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But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.

Bible
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The Hawaii Medal of Honor is a symbol of our remembering those who stood tall for our values so that we may live in a land perpetuated in righteousness.

Sen. Norman Sakamoto
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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer
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Our righteousness is in Him, and our hope depends, not upon the exercise of grace in us, but upon the fullness of grace and love in Him, and upon His obedience unto death.

John Newton
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You're Generation Next. Cowboy up. We're supposed to expect greatness from you. You wanna be great, you gotta be great in everything you do every day. Righteousness always prevails. If you're good-hearted and good-headed, no matter what happens to you, you will prevail.

Dave Pelzer
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A defensive war I think a righteousness war and justifiable in the sight of God.

Daniel Morgan
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Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

Sir Robert Hutchinson
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This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.

John Newton
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Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit.

Robert Barclay
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God will begin to prosper you, for money always follows righteousness.

Benny Hinn
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Yes, I've been cussed at, fussed at and figuratively beaten around the ears, but after eight years in this job, after seeing America, I know two things... I have never believed so strongly in this nation's future, in the righteousness of its ways as I do and I have never believed so strongly that we must continue to fight so that the law issues from all of the people and not just some.

Janet Reno
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Righteousness exalteth a nation.

Bible
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We are announcing for the last time that we are opening the door to repentance and for those to return to righteousness.

Prince Abdullah
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I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than our longing for righteousness.

Evelyn Rodriguez
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Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Bible
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Lastly, though I affirm that after a man hath arrived to such a condition in which a man may not sin, he yet may sin; I will nevertheless not deny but there may be a state attainable in this life, in which to do righteousness may become so natural to the regenerate soul, that in the stability of this condition they can not sin.

Robert Barclay
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And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

Bible
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Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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Christ was treated as we deserve, that we might be treated as He deserves. He was condemned for our sins, in which He had no share, that we might be justified by His righteousness, in which we had no share. He suffered the death which was ours, that we might receive the life which was His.

Ellen G. White
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Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.

Edward Hoagland
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