Quotes About Righteousness

By spiritually I merely mean that I feel I have good in my soul and am inclined to follow the correct course of action given a prescribed set of circumstances.

Y qué es un héroe? [...] - Alguien que se cree un héroe y acierta. O alguien que tiene el coraje y el instinto de la virtud, y por eso no se equivoca nunca, o por lo menos no se equivoca en el único momento en que importa no equivocarse, y por lo tanto no puede no ser un héroe [...]

Serenio had been right, his love was too much for most people to bear. His anger, let loose, could not be contained until it had run its course either. Growing up, he had once wreaked such havoc with righteous anger that he had caused someone serious injury. All his emotions were too powerful. Even his mother had felt forced to put a distance between them, and she had watched with silent sympathy when friends backed off because he clung too fiercely, loved too hard, demanded too much of them.

La integridad de un hombre de bien es siempre antipática a los malvados.

As disciples of Jesus Christ we have a responsibility to work together with like-minded believers, to raise our voices for what is right.

We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

God has always given me the strength to say what is right.

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth, and we should be as children of one father, and should need no law or ordinance. For God is not served by any law, but only by obedience.

I have a strong sense of justice.

The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.

Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.

This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?

True biblical love is compassionately and righteously pursuing the well-being of another.

If what you're sowing isn't evil, you should have nothing to fear.

How nice it feels to be good," she thought quietly.

Why do they do what they do with such regularity, such mindfulness, such devotion? They do it because it is their sacred work. They do it because not to do it would be to deny what they know is theirs to manage and care about. The right action does not depend upon having a right outcome. It depends on taking the action because that is the action that rises before you in the moment with all its grace and power and majesty -- and because it demands to be done. The action is all.

So the disciple of Proverbs will acquire discipline that will produce a prudent life, and that prudent life will be demonstrated by "doing what is right and just and fair.

Daniel 12, however, makes it clear that the wicked will ultimately get what they deserve—destruction and shame—while the godly will get what they deserve—honor and life. These themes are much more fully developed in the New Testament and are the basis of Christian hope in the midst of a difficult present.

that sin is not the only possible cause of suffering has two practical implications. First, it "shatters the myth that our own righteousness can protect us from unjust suffering."[109] In other words, we cannot control the situations that might lead to our pain. Second, we cannot judge others based on the fact that they are suffering.

That's kind of the point of being stealthy. And if he doesn't catch you, then you're not doing anything wrong, are you?" That sounded true. That sounded very true!