Righteousness Quotes
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.
When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders.
Believing that you are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus and simply receiving the gift of no condemnation gives you the power to go and sin no more.
Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.
At the cross, the worst about us-our sins-was laid upon Christ, and the best about Him-His righteousness-was laid upon us.
There must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness.
Our works do not generate righteousness, rather our righteousness in Christ generates works.
Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.
Filial Piety is the principle of Heaven, The righteousness of Earth, And the (proper) conduct of the people.
The Bible says, "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost"
The resurrection stands related to righteousness in the same way that death stands related to sin.
No work nor deed of ours whatsoever, no not faith itself, can be the condition of the covenant of grace properly so called; but only Christ's fulfilling all righteousness.
No one will ever go to Hell who has put his trust in Jesus Christ, but many will end up in torment who have trusted their own righteousness and reformation.
Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
In spinning a robe of your own righteousness, before the sun goes down you will find it all unraveled.
Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide
This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ's, and Christ's righteousness is not Christ's but ours.
Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.
A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.
Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.
Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.
Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt
I would encourage them never to forget that they were not always vegans. The self-righteousness of the recently converted hurts, it does not help, other animals.
I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.
Obedience insures greatness, whilst disobedience leads to a repulse. Whosoever possesseth the qualities of righteousness placeth his head on the threshold of obedience.
The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.
The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.
It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us.
It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.
The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith.
One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while adhering to the path of righteousness.
Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.
Peter's faith had many a shaking, but it was established upon the truth of his God, upon the person and work and righteousness of Jesus Christ.
Sometimes people think if someone has depression, that person must be a broken Mormon. We believe that righteousness is happiness, but what happens when people are righteous and they're not happy?
A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
We reach the goal not by the stairs, but by the lift..... God pledges his promised righteousness to those who will stop trying to save themselves. Change your thoughts and you change your world.
God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.
There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.
