Quotes About Righteousness

Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.

If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour's eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour's case.

Good men don't become legends," he said quietly. "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.

You cannot tempt the hearts of men who are pure.

The man or woman who lives worthily now is in a state of salvation.

No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.

The righteousness of men should be treated with the same respect that one would accord to a rattlesnake. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.

That which impels man to do the right thing is God.

Few men are wantonly wicked.

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

We love justice greatly, and just men but little.

If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

But how right is it to kill a man for something that is in his soul?