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Quotes About Righteousness

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.
~ Sophocles
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The problem is we need much more moral content.
~ Cornel West
I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
~ Harrison Ford
The fundamental issue is the moral issue.
~ David Attenborough
I can't morally go against the truth.
~ Ishita Dutta
We've had other things come up in their place, but I don't think' anything beats morals.
~ Nigel Hawthorne
People who use dirty methods to hurt others... will be destroyed with methods that are even dirtier than theirs!! That's what I call justice!! Not to mention... journalism! - Wolfgangina Lalla Getto
~ Tite Kubo
What's fair ain't necessarily right
~ Toni Morrison
The righteous look every Negro learned to recognize along with his ma'am's tit. Like a flag hoisted, this righteousness telegraphed and announced the faggot, the whip, the fist, the lie, long before it went public.
~ Toni Morrison
Biblical love is a choice to do good for another person regardless of what we feel. It is a decision to compassionately and righteously pursue the betterment of another person. This is why you can even love your enemies according to Christ's command.
~ Tony Evans
When you got saved, God deposited deep down within you all of the righteousness that belongs to Jesus Christ. But you can't benefit unless you are willing to dig down deep with the shovel of truth so that God will release a brand-new you surrounded by the secure protection of a breastplate of His righteousness.
~ Tony Evans
La oración persistente, basada en la ley de Dios, constituye un asunto del reino, y Dios se preocupa por su justa reputación.
~ Tony Evans
However, the Lord wanted His shepherds to know that He is the standard by which everything else should be measured. He is the bar that separates right from wrong. His name is the name by which we distinguish
~ Tony Evans
This book has two goals: to encourage Christians to live righteous and holy lives in light of the prophetic timetable that is to come and to challenge unbelievers about the judgment ahead if they reject Christ.
~ Tony Evans
God is looking for righteousness over ritual. He wants our lives and our hearts and our actions. Jesus warned us that, "These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me" (Matt. 15: 8).
~ Kerry L. Skinner
Right is right, even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong about it.
~ Kevin Belmonte
The Gospel never has a better name than when it goes forth in a manner beyond reproach.
~ Kevin Belmonte
Some traditionalists may insist there is no redeeming value in "secular" music. But recent history has shown that a steady diet of gospel music does not exempt anyone from making destructive choices. From Kirk Franklin's pornography addiction to the domestic violence involving evangelists Juanita Bynum and Thomas W. Weeks III, it's clear that tuning out secular music is not a guarantee of righteous behavior.
~ Kevin Powell
This is the moral, Oh My Best Beloved: never kill anyone for a 'Cause'. For why not, Uncle Basher? Because causes don't pay, Little Friend of all the World. Adherents expect you to kill just for the righteousness of it. They don't want to pay you! They don't understand why you want paying!
~ Kim Newman
When God looks at sin, what He sees is the harm it brings. People want to define some sins as big and others as little, but the truth is, Bud, every sin is equally bad in God's eyes.
~ Kim Vogel Sawyer
An evildoer may succeed in delivering injustice to the righteous but the howl of protest from within his conscience will reverberate in the ears of his soul for the rest of his life.
~ Kimano M. Edwards
You never need a green light to stand up for what's right.
~ Kimano M. Edwards
God, give water in the wilderness, and release streams in the desert. I sprinkle America with the blood of Jesus and pray that the leaders of the nation will be under that covering (Isa. 52:12). Let everything under the covering of the blood be judged by it. I pray that Jesus will rule over my nation in righteousness and judgment and that the wicked will be rooted out of our land (Isa. 32:1; Prov. 2:22). Let all plans of terrorism against our country, our leadership, and our
~ Kimberly Daniels