Quotes About Righteousness

I have a pretty keen ethical compass.

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires" (James 1:19 – 20).

The theory I have in mind is one which does not proceed, as it were, from a doctrine of the intrinsic goodness or righteousness of a majority rule, but rather from the baseness of tyranny; or more precisely, it rests upon the decision, or upon the adoption of the proposal, to avoid and to resist tyranny.

The righteousness of the flawed is frightening.

What we attempt to do is not without danger. What we attempt to do may not succeed. But it is right and it is just. We act for the good of all.

Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing.

Who will rise up against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? —Psalms 94:16

The restoration of the image of God ... the new nature, created after the likeness of God in righteousness and holiness ... the new nature, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its Creator ... the renewal of the image will throw light upon the meaning and content of the original creation of man in the image of God.

One cannot mount from reality to the righteousness of God, because reality can only be known through the explaining word of revelation. The Light that illumines the world is found only in faith.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

the schoolmaster was one of those men for whom virtuous indignation was a necessity.

He will give joy to those who suffer for doing what is right.

Don't take no shit off fools. An' you judge a person by what's in 'em, not how they look. An' you do the right thing. You gotta be one of the good guys, son: 'cause there's way too many of the bad.

ya gotta be one of the good guys...'cause there's too many of the bad.

Jesus's teachings direct us to make a decision that will lead to righteousness—to seek someone who will inspire us toward godliness, who will confront us when we go astray, who will forgive us when we mess up, who can encourage us with wisdom when we are uncertain about how to proceed.

He that hath sinned In body, word, or thought, Or in anything That is called sinful, Doing not that which is righteous, But doing much that is unrighteous-- This fool after the dissolution of the body, Shall go to perdition.

The most precious treasure is virtue.

A person who is seeking to feel justification for some action might move from "What you've done angers me" to "What you've done is wrong." Popular justifications include the moral high ground of righteous indignation and the more simple equation known by its biblical name: an eye for an eye.

It's none of your nobility impelled me on my way. It's guilt and hate, and love and fear; these roused me forth each day. Nor had I any righteousness, no heaven-sent commission; A man's the sum of circumstance, of training, times, position.

Slandered for no misdeed, is certification of substance, integrity, and righteousness.

Joshua had been overcome by his own righteous indignation. He had become so obsessed with Yahweh's war that he forgot he was a servant and not the sovereign. He became momentarily blinded by the delusion that he could do no wrong. And when his hatred for evil was projected outward, he was overwhelmed by his rage and forgot the evil in himself. His momentary madness was the potential of every living person.

They would worship you when you brought them success or food for their bellies, but they would impale you on a pole if you crossed them or failed to live up to their expectations. The people were a mob. Yahweh did not pick Israel because they were more righteous than the other nations, or for anything in themselves. He chose them as his people from his own mysterious sovereign will, for his own mysterious sovereign purposes.

It fits together with the prophet Daniel. The breaking of evil by righteousness is Daniel's Messiah Prince ending sin through atonement and bringing in everlasting righteousness. The shaking of the heavens and earth is the establishment of a new covenant. 'My servant David' is a reference to Messiah, whose sign of power is resurrection after three days. He is the Lord of lords and the Prince of princes.