Quotes About Righteousness

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.

When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders'.

The worst kind of tyrant is one that is righteously wrong

It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong.

Whoever is not made glorified by taqwa can find no glory.

Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.

Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?

Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

Lord, give me the wisdom to know what's right and the courage to do what's right-even when it's hard.

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.

Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.

To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.