Quotes About Righteousness

Right is right and wrong is wrong.

If you do right, things come out right.

I try to do things the right way.

I don't know how a man can live with himself to get to the top knowing he didn't do it the right way.

I have to be honest with myself, and make sure I am doing things the right way.

Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.

Righteousness is on our side.

The high road is the only road I know.

I believe in love and wisdom which have created life. I believe that they have the power to recreate the world. I believe that the living love and wisdom can change our life, our society and our homes. When we accept love and wisdom, truth and righteousness will come. The angels will descend from heaven and plant good fruits in our souls.

As Meister Eckhart once said: When one can do the works of virtue without preparing, by willing to do them, and bring to completion some great and righteous matter without giving it a thought – when the deed of virtue seems to happen by itself, simply because one loved goodness and for no other reason, then one is perfectly virtuous and not before.

How can I be angry and not sin?

There is no real victory unless it shares the righteousness of that man's heart.

Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, "Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest

As the citizens of a democracy, the noisy patriots and protestors had a right to their opinions about Vietnam but not, it seemed to me, to the smug righteousness with which they voiced them, because they hadn't been there.

For where grace is, there is a remitting, and where remitting is, there is no punishment. Punishment then being removed, and righteousness succeeding from faith, there is no obstacle to our becoming heirs of the promise.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in," Abraham Lincoln

noble cause after all; maybe we were fighting against a cruel and vicious enemy that was in the service of an aggressive, hateful ideology with designs on enslaving other peoples and other countries; maybe—just maybe—we were doing the right thing.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

The good have no need of an advocate.

The Prayer Appointed for the Week O God, from whom all good proceeds: Grant that by your inspiration I may think those things that are right, and by your merciful guiding may do them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen.†

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

I'm going to ensure justice, where justice is shaky.