Quotes About Righteousness

I answer that, As Augustine says (De Moribus Eccl. vi), "the soul needs to follow something in order to give birth to virtue: this something is God: if we follow Him we shall live aright.

He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

God hath not called us that we should be unclean, but holy and virtuous.

God is a just as He is merciful.

There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those that are most careful to judge themselves.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

A healthy hatred of scoundrels.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Wisdom should control courtesy. Courtesy should control righteousness. Righteousness should control benevolence. Benevolence should control trustworthiness. Trustworthiness should control wisdom. When these five natures produce and control each other thus in a continuous circle, then no element of personality dominates; they all interact, balancing each other, resulting in completeness of the five natures.

In the end, you should always do the right thing even if it hurts.

There is no disgrace in staying behind, not when it's the right thing.

Madmen claimed God in their vicious righteousness, stirring fear and hate to build their own armies to purge what was "other.

Because it was right. Seth had mulled it over for a while and had decided that's what a hero was. Somebody who just did what was right.

Justification is the act of declaring a sinner righteous in the eyes of God.

Your righteousness is everlasting and your law is true (Ps. 119:142). Yet

Romans 5:19—If all are made righteous by Christ, why aren't all saved?

It amounted to a pornography of being right. No orgasm would be as satisfying as proving everyone else wrong.

Or maybe, just maybe, he got it into his head that he was doing something good. Something righteous. Some of the worst things are done under righteous pretense.

I conclude, then, that the plea of having acted in the interests of a friend is not a valid excuse for a wrong action. . . . We may then lay down this rule of friendship--neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. For the plea for friendship's sake is a discreditable one, and not to be admitted for a moment.

Love and that love will be returned, trust in the righteous path and it will lead you to deliverance, fight and things will change.

love will be returned, trust in the righteous path and it will lead you to deliverance, fight and things will change.

for a long time they were the same thing to me, justice and revenge.

Niekas neturi teisÄ—s elgtis neteisingai, net ir tas, kuris pats neteisybÄ™ patyrÄ—.

The lovely thing about humanity is that at times one may be unaware of doing right, but one is always aware of doing wrong.