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2524d31 "Let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight," says the LORD." god justice know loving-kindness righteous understand Anonymous
53d2081 No,' said Gould, with an unusual and convincing gravity; 'I do not believe that being perfectly good in all respects would make a man merry.' 'Well,' said Michael quietly, 'will you tell me one thing? Which of us has ever tried it? happiness purity righteous G.K. Chesterton
e5d97e9 Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling pious and self- righteous while you starve small children! baby child children dresses gray kid kids pious righteous self-righteous standing V.C. Andrews
2a26b7a Aye me, how many perils do enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall? Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And steadfast truth acquite him out of all. perils righteous truth Edmund Spenser
87b0b53 There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends; and if there were any being dispensed, a great many worthier people would be in line for them long before Michael and Laura and himself. But the happiness of the unworthy and the happiness of the so-so is as fragile and self-centered and dear as the happiness of the righteous and the worthy; and the happiness of the living is no less short and desperate and forgotten than the joys of the dead. dear fragile happy-endings jonathan-rebeck joys-of-the-dead laura-durand living michael-morgan nothing-ends righteous self-centered unworthy worthy Peter S. Beagle
a02e1ea [In the story of the Good Samaritan,] everybody knows the robber is bad--but doesn't Jesus also imply an indictment on the priest and Levite? . . . The priest and Levite are over here. They are 'righteous' in a superficial way. They don't rob anybody. They're not like that lousy criminal who is over here, on the bad end of the line. Do you see it? That's the line we modern Christians try to live on the right end of it . . . The Samaritan traveler lives on a higher level, altogether. The issue isn't who is wrong or righteous; that's obvious. The issue is who is truly good. goodness righteous righteousness Brian D. McLaren