Righteousness Quotes

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.

One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.

It is an important part of our life’s experience to develop the strength, courage, and integrity to hold fast to truth and righteousness despite the buffeting we may experience.

Praise the Lord, my soul, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. The Lord works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

I pledged to work for righteousness. God's given me inspiration. God's the boss, he tell me what to do.

God holds his people responsible for righteousness, not for results.

The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.

Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.

Our sin is what separates us from God, but it's our self righteousness that keeps us from running to Him for the grace He willingly gives to all who come.

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.

The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him.

Righteousness exalteth a nation.

Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others.

What joy the gospel gives me! I can approach the throne of God with confidence-not because I've done a good job at my spiritual duties, but because I'm clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.

The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

Real faith invariably produces holiness of heart and righteousness of life.

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

Faith is a gift of God bestowed as a reward for personal righteousness.

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.

One thing, and only one thing, is necessary for Christian life, righteousness, and freedom. That one thing is the most holy Word of God, the gospel of Christ.

I thank God and His Son, Jesus Christ, for the Restoration and its power to propel a magnificent wave of truth and righteousness across the earth.

To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

Peace is a blessing that comes to those who trust in God. It is established through individual righteousness. True personal peace comes about through eternal vigilance and constant righteous efforts.

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love.

We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.

It is a great truth, " God reigns," and therefore grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord; and, therefore, no sinner on earth need ever despair.

I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

In the old, sin contaminates. In the new, righteousness contaminates. It's a different day.

We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'

The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches--and even, with the best intentions, from us - can push them toward pride or despair...toward self-righteousness or self-hatred.

When you get so tired that you realize you cannot generate righteousness, come on back and I'll tell you about a gift.

If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.

Your fellowship with God never came because of your righteousness. So how could your own righteousness maintain it?

The task must be to banish from mankind's thought the idea that anybody has the right to use force against righteousness, against justice, against mutual agreements.

The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are: Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non violence.

Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.