Quotes About Righteousness

Our judgments always have behind them a quality of righteousness.

Look for the good instead of the bad, the right instead of the wrong, the beauty instead of the blight, the joy instead of the sorrow. Do this and you'll always have something good to say.

A hadith states, "Anxiety is half of aging." Another hadith states, "Righteousness will lengthen your life.

It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.

It doesn't matter if there's a handful of you against many of them. Once you've seen that a cause is right, you're obliged to fight for it. Whether you ever live to see success, or the person who steps into your shoes does, it doesn't matter.

find God in the willingness of so many people to do the right thing, even when the right thing is difficult, expensive, or unappreciated, and to reject the wrong thing no matter how tempting or profitable.

Tell the righteous it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds. Woe to the wicked, it shall be ill with him, for what his hands have done shall be done to him. (Isaiah 3:10–11)

There is no right way to do a wrong thing.

When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.

19No, for I have chosene him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice; so that the LORD may bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.

if you only trust in God, and try to do right, he'll deliver you.

I won't sell influence and I'm perfectly willing to be cussed if I'm right.

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

Never, never be afraid to do what is right. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our souls when we look away. —Martin Luther King Jr

It was the Prophet (saas) who said "I was sent to perfect good character"2 and "By One in whose hand there is my life: None shall enter Paradise except one who has got good conduct."3

The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance encouraged. Rise up in righteousness when you witness the words and deeds of hate, but only if you are willing to rise up against them all, including your own. Otherwise suffer the slings and arrows of disrespect silently.

If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence- yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.

The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.

I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.

The idea ... that collective society should take hold of Evil and set it down hard in its chair and make it cry seems to many of us absolutely sound. Of course, we feel that it is not for us, those who love righteousness, to jump on the necks of the wicked. We prefer to have it attended to in a more dignified, impersonal way by Society as a whole.

PROVERBS 3:25–26 I pray that in righteousness my son shall be established. That he shall be far from oppression, for he shall not fear. And from terror, for it shall not come near him. ISAIAH 54:14

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.

When the end is lawful the means are also lawful