Quotes About Righteousness

Blowing them up or shooting them wasn't right, but a world in which the wicked went about their days frightened of retribution was a more just one than a world where the wicked held their heads high.

Everybody could be doing something better without their lives. Name me one person who is doing the best, most righteous thing with their life this very minute.

God doesn't want us to be happy when it causes us to do something wrong or unwise

Ain't nothing wrong with shootin' folks, long as the right ones get shot

Here lies the body of William Jay, Who died maintaining his right of way— He was right, dead right, as he sped along, But he's just as dead as if he were wrong.

Shakespeare said, "Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

What if the Negro people be wooed from a strife for righteousness, from a love of knowing, to regard dollars as the be-all and end-all of life? What if to the Mammonism of America be added the rising Mammonism of the re-born South, and the Mammonism of this South be reinforced by the budding Mammonism of its half-wakened black millions?

The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man.

Jesus] said, "Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are ill.…For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners" (Matt. 9:10-13). Jesus opened up God's heart to men.

What God calls evil can slowly begin to appear normal-even good.

Gather as much virtue as you possibly can.

The meritorious ground of justification is not faith; we are not justified on account of our faith, considered as a virtuous holy act or state of mind. Nor are our works of any kind the ground of justification. Nothing done by us or wrought in us satisfies the demands of justice, or can be the ground or reason of the declaration that justice as far as it concerns us is satisfied. The ground of justification is the righteousness of Christ.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

The prayer for the vengeance of God is the prayer for the execution of his righteousness in the judgment of sin.

As evil grows through many small acts of wrongdoing, good develops as we continue to do what is right before God and others.

Many things lawful are not expedient, but nothing can be truly expedient which is unlawful or sinful.

Jesus reserved his harshest judgement for those who professed to be righteous but failed to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, visit the sick and imprisoned. "Depart from me, you accursed!" he thundered.

I hope I'm always fair," said Mr. Coningsby, meaning that he couldn't imagine Eternal Justice disagreeing with him

Believe in the integrity and value of the jagged path. We don't always do the right thing on our way to rightness.

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

Blessed are those who thirst after righteousness.

Es fer war, I call it murder,— There you hev it, plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that; God hez sed so, plump an' fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad, An' you've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

There is nothing to be afraid of if you believe and know that the cause for which you stand is right. You are ready to face anything and you face it with a humble smile on your face, because you know that all of eternity stands with you and the angels stand beside you and you know you are right.

Hatred and violence masked in righteousness is the worst kind of delusion