Righteous

Famous quotes containing the word righteous:

    ...for [God] makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 5:45.

    All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)