Righteousness Quotes

Righteousness Quote of the day

Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes.

For this purpose was I born, let all virtuous people understand. I was born to advance righteousness, to emancipate the good, and to destroy all evil-doers root and branch.

Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it.

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.

What does rasta mean? Righteousness.

My righteousness is just as good as Jesus' righteousness, because it IS Jesus' righteousness!

People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.

Regret not that which is past; and trust not to thine own righteousness.

We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent.

No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.

Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance.

The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.

Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist in the shadows of death. Success is no name of God. Righteousness is.

God never alters the robe of righteousness to fit the man. Rather He alters the man to fit the robe.

Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.

I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible.

Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.

And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!

Pure Christlike love flowing from true righteousness can change the world.

If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.

My future is righteousness.

When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.

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.

Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

True purity, however, is a direction, a persistent, determined pursuit of righteousness. This direction starts in the heart, and we express it in a lifestyle that flees opportunities for compromise.

None are so sinful that they cannot find strength, purity, and righteousness in Jesus, who died for them.

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

Cultivate the heart to raise a harvest of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love. This crop has to be raised in your heart and should be shared with others.

My message is love and righteousness and peace and to share and care for yourself and share for others as you would share for yourself. A message of your inner thoughts.

True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.

So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.

Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, even persecutors, the worst of sinners: his righteousness is sufficient for them; his Spirit is able to purify and change their hearts.

For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.

Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!

He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.

A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.

The true Gospel of Jesus Christ is a revelation of how God has taken sinful man and made him a new creature and imparted to him a perfect righteousness.

The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge.

God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on my own. His righteousness.

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.