Quotes About Righteousness

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

No man can put on the robes of Christ's righteousness till he has taken off his own.

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him toward the left.

He who is less than just is less than man.

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

There's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.

In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.

Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.

In every good man a God doth dwell.

No man of God does something against the Lord