Righteousness
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Righteousness (also called rectitude) is an important theological concept in Zoroastrianism, Hinduism (dharma), Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It is an attribute that implies that a person's actions are justified, and can have the connotation that the person has been "judged" or "reckoned" as leading a life that is pleasing to God.
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- 'Righteous hatred' is in the same category as 'righteous cancer' or 'righteous tuberculosis'. All of them are absurd concepts.
- Alan Wallace, Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground up, Wisdom (1993).
[edit] Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 675.
- Be not righteous overmuch.
- Ecclesiastes. VII. 16.
- Every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
- Hebrews. V. 13.
- A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
- Proverbs. XII. 10.
- Righteousness exalteth a nation.
- Proverbs. XIV. 34.
- I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
- Psalms. XXXVII. 25.
- The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
- Psalms. XCII. 12.
