Quotes About Righteousness

Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in healing the sick, deaf, or lame – if such healing accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will. Thus, even with strong faith, many mountains will not be moved. And not all of the sick and infirm will be healed.

Act justly love mercy walk humbly with your God.

"Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf."

"Who lends his money without usury and does not accept a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken."

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions.

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.

All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

Actual experience subjects and exposes us to the actual world, in which we must make a living under the obligation to be honest, form opinions under the obligation to be just, and in general suffer the mysteries, obscurities, and complexities that make truth difficult and righteousness imperfect.

Categorical hatred is the hatred of the mob, which makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob overflowing with righteousness, as at the crucifixion, and before, and since.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly; these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions;[69] we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit;

We have here the fundamental problem of ethics, the crux of the theory of moral conduct. What is justice? -shall we seek righteousness, or shall we seek power? -is it better to be good, or to be strong?

Man's duty, says the Avesta, is three-fold: "To make him who is an enemy a friend; to make him who is wicked righteous; and to make him who is ignorant learned."76

For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though late, a sure reward succeeds.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

So you believe in the rightness of man? I said. I will beat the heads off yez all for a shilling, Comyn said. I believe in the pitiableness of man, the subadar said. That is better.

Pero no comprende que quizá un hombre pueda hacer algo únicamente porque sabe que está bien, porque la armonía de las cosas exige que se haga?.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.

A well-meaning man, Dhai Ma liked to say, is more dangerous because he believes in the rightness of what he does. Give me an honest rascal any day!

Happiness is the by-product of doing the right things in life. And the "right things" always involve serving and loving and caring and contributing to others.

In truth, Riley's crew didn't make trouble. They were fixers. The school's go-to team of Robin Hoods. They only tried to right wrongs, protect innocent kids from bullies, look out for abused animals, and, basically, use their talents to do all the good they could.