Quotes About Righteousness

There are those here who believe they are right simply because they oppose something that is evil.

Left-wing and right-wing political ideologies have themselves become secular religions, providing people with a community of like-minded brethren, a catechism of sacred beliefs, a well-populated demonology, and a beatific confidence in the righteousness of their cause.

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

We can agree with what the gospel says about our sinfulness without becoming overwhelmed by guilt and shame. Further, we do not have to prove that we are victims rather than victimizers out of a desperate effort to persuade ourselves that we are righteous. We have Christ's righteousness already. We can rest in this.

Humata, Hukhta, Hvarshta," Mithan said. "It means good thoughts, good words, and good deeds.

Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.

Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

I am longing to show him my love, but not by doing what is wrong

God's judgment is not like man's judgment. It is not a suspension of His Love but an extension of His Love. His justice is always righteous, so His judgment is always Love.

And all our righteousnesses are filthy rags and we all do fade as a leaf and our inequities like the wind have taken us away

Second, as Luther stated, because God's love isn't caused by its object, it can love those who are not lovable, "sinners, evil persons, fools, and weaklings in order to make them righteous, good, wise, and strong". Luther concluded, "rather than seeking its own good, the love of God flows forth and bestows good".

The good will be welcome in heaven.

Fix your thoughts on what is true and good and right. Think [and speak] about things that are pure and lovely, and dwell on the fine, good things in others" (Phil. 4:8 LB).

Oh, how I'd enjoyed all that sweet crisp righteous anger, my favorite drug: I'd nearly ridden the high straight into murder.

Zlo?a pretpostavlja moralnu odluku, nakanu i stanoviti promišljaj. Debili ili prostak ne razmišlja niti rezonira. On djeluje nagonski, kao zvijer, uvjeren da postupa ispravno, da uvijek ima pravo i ponosan je što podjebava, s oproštenjem, svakoga tko mu se u?ini druk?ijim, pa bilo to bojom, vjerom, jezikom, nacionalnoš?u ili, kao u slu?aju gospodina Federica, slobodnim aktivnostima. Na svijetu nam treba više istinski zlih ljudi, a manje potpunih budaletina.

Jayden could make her squirm for a little while, but that wouldn't be right. Gramps always told her to do what she knew was right and not worry about those folks around her who were doing wrong.

Was that justice?" she said. She sounded as though she honestly wanted to know.

In this world, few people look with the eyes of compassion, and so we are cruel and merciless toward each other. The weak are always oppressed by the strong. I still see that my reasoning that day was correct, for it arose from love and understanding. Love and understanding can ease the suffering of all beings. The truth is the truth, whether or not it is accepted by the majority. Therefore, I tell you children, it takes great courage to stand up for and protect what is right.

God has in Himself all power to defend you; all wisdom to direct you; all mercy to pardon you; all grace to enrich you; all righteousness to clothe you; all goodness to supply you; and all happiness to crown you.

Grace works ahead of us to draw us toward faith, to begin its work in us. Even the first fragile intuition of conviction of sin, the first intimation of our need of God, is the work of preparing, prevening grace, which draws us gradually toward wishing to please God. Grace is working quietly at the point of our desiring, bringing us in time to despair over our own unrighteousness, challenging our perverse dispositions, so that our distorted wills cease gradually to resist the gift of God.

The Spirit of God draws or leads the sinner from one phase to another, gradually, in proportion as one is found having a disposition to responsive hearing. Grace flows ordinarily from prevenient grace through the grace of baptism through the grace of justification toward sanctifying grace leading toward consummation in glory. The power by which one cooperates with grace is grace itself. In this way God draws all to himself, eliciting a hunger for righteousness and a desire for truth.

What's right week days is right Sundays

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. - Thomas Huxley