Quotes About Righteousness

How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends Life with immortality, splendor with righteousness, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness And all these things are within our comprehension.

Then Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak.

She'd come to understand that God was present for the good and the bad, and it wasn't that He was cruel, but that He knew—goodness was a choice. Rightness was a choice. Free will was the road to salvation, and God wasn't going to make you do the right thing. God's job was to be there if you chose Him, there if you didn't.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

Sprookje Er was eens een man die altijd rechtvaardig was.

Do not seek evil gains evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight, But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.

Collot is back from Lyon, did you know? He had finished his work, as he describes it. His path of righteousness is very clear and straight and broad. It's so easy to be a good Jacobin. Collot hasn't a doubt or scruple in his head— indeed, I doubt if he has much in it at all. Stop the Terror? He thinks we haven't even begun.

Vere dignum et justum est, aequum et salutare.

Love is a noble cause. How can anything done in the service of a noble cause be wrong?

than to be mad at the people who deserve it.

Love is a noble cause,' Vivi reminded her. 'How can anything done in the service of a noble cause be wrong?

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.

I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

She was all-powerful when she knew without doubt that she was in the right. But how often did you know for sure that you were right? Hardly ever.

If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.

But we do have other choices, my dear. We can turn our backs on all that we know is right, sit ourselves down, fold our hands and allow wickedness to go unchallenged and therefore to prevail. We can run away and hide. Or we can stand our ground and fight inequality to our last heartbeat, knowing that if we perish, we have done all that we could and others will carry on, just as those who came before us have done.

A mob pelting pilloried wrongdoers with rotten vegetables would seem to have little in common with one doing the same with 140-character invective, except of course the most important thing: the belief that they are in the right, and are even doing good by making the object of their contempt feel really, really bad.

But surely there is more. Certainly it could never end like this. Somewhere, somehow, isn't it absolutely essential to the immutable principals of Balance, Righteousness, and a healthy GNP that some small but powerful hole card exists? Shouldn't it be true that some unknown but potent force will emerge and set things right? Somehow, somewhere, isn't there something? There is.

God is just in the way he cares for each of his children. We can rest in his just, righteous, and merciful character.

The British statesmen Ernest Bevin once quipped that "the kingdom of heaven may run on righteousness, but the kingdom of earth runs on oil.

We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment. Then virtue and contentment will come and reign within your heart, unsought by any effort of your own; and you will be a good citizen, a loving husband, and a tender father - a noble, pious man.

Speak truth, and right will take care of itself.