All 19 Uses of
righteous
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- It has been said of old that over one repentant sinner there is more joy in heaven than over ten righteous men.†
Chpt 2
- All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.†
Chpt 2
- It is true," said Father Zossima, with a smile, "the Christian society now is not ready and is only resting on some seven righteous men, but as they are never lacking, it will continue still unshaken in expectation of its complete transformation from a society almost heathen in character into a single universal and all-powerful Church.†
Chpt 2
- You save your souls here, eating cabbage, and think you are the righteous.†
Chpt 2
- In the land of Uz, there lived a man, righteous and God-fearing, and he had great wealth, so many camels, so many sheep and asses, and his children feasted, and he loved them very much and prayed for them.†
Chpt 6
- So prone is the man of the world to be ashamed of any righteous action.†
Chpt 6
- Some, at first a few and afterwards more, began indeed to believe in the truth of his story, and they visited me and questioned me with great interest and eagerness, for man loves to see the downfall and disgrace of the righteous.†
Chpt 6
- So that our people still believe in righteousness, have faith in God and weep tears of devotion.†
Chpt 6 *
- In Europe the people are already rising up against the rich with violence, and the leaders of the people are everywhere leading them to bloodshed, and teaching them that their wrath is righteous.†
Chpt 6
- If I had been righteous myself, perhaps there would have been no criminal standing before me.†
Chpt 6
- If you sin yourself and grieve even unto death for your sins or for your sudden sin, then rejoice for others, rejoice for the righteous man, rejoice that if you have sinned, he is righteous and has not sinned.†
Chpt 6
- If you sin yourself and grieve even unto death for your sins or for your sudden sin, then rejoice for others, rejoice for the righteous man, rejoice that if you have sinned, he is righteous and has not sinned.†
Chpt 6
- The righteous man departs, but his light remains.†
Chpt 6
- Seek no reward, for great is your reward on this earth: the spiritual joy which is only vouchsafed to the righteous man.†
Chpt 6
- For even if the righteous in Paradise forgave them, beholding their torments, and called them up to heaven in their infinite love, they would only multiply their torments, for they would arouse in them still more keenly a flaming thirst for responsive, active and grateful love which is now impossible.†
Chpt 6
- For accepting the love of the righteous together with the impossibility of repaying it, by this submissiveness and the effect of this humility, they will attain at last, as it were, to a certain semblance of that active love which they scorned in life, to something like its outward expression….†
Chpt 6
- The unbelievers rejoiced, and as for the believers some of them rejoiced even more than the unbelievers, for "men love the downfall and disgrace of the righteous," as the deceased elder had said in one of his exhortations.†
Chpt 7
- His object in this case was twofold, first a revengeful desire to see "the downfall of the righteous," and Alyosha's fall "from the saints to the sinners," over which he was already gloating in his imagination, and in the second place he had in view a certain material gain for himself, of which more will be said later.†
Chpt 7
- How many souls have had to be ruined and how many honorable reputations destroyed for the sake of that one righteous man, Job, over whom they made such a fool of me in old days!†
Chpt 11
Definition:
-
(righteous as in: a righteous cause) morally correct; or morally justified
or:
acting or feeling morally superior -- especially when it isn't true (this meaning is more typically seen as a compound word beginning with "self-")