Quotes About Righteousness

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

When you do the right thing, you get the feeling of peace and serenity associated with it. Do it again and again.

What can I hope when all is right?

We become just by performing just actions temperate by performing temperate actions brave by performing brave actions.

Right is right, no matter how wrong the time is.

Commitment is a curse if it interferes with righteousness.

May righteous God guide you on a right path.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

Believing that you are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus and simply receiving the gift of no condemnation gives you the power to go and sin no more.

You must never underestimate the power of your righteous influence.

He writes of the Garman ethics that "there is a standard of righteousness that might does not make right, that the end does not justify the means, and that expediency as a working principle is bound to fail. The only hope of perfecting human relationships is in accordance with the law of service under which men are not so solicitous about what they shall get as they are about what they shall give.

No enumeration of the fruits of the Spirit will be found which excludes peace and joy, much less love; and from these graces, if, indeed, not from the last alone, spring the various fruits which unitedly constitute righteousness.

What is morally wrong cannot be politically right.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify corruption, obtain comfort in their own mint: 'Who hath required this at your hands?' This is truly to be 'righteous over-much,' as Solomon speaks, when we will pretend to correct God's law, and add supplements of our own to his rule.

This breastplate of righteousness is of so base an ac count with them, that they who wear it in their daily conversation do make themselves no less ridiculous to them than if they came forth in a fool's coat, or were clad in a dress contrived on purpose to move laughter.

Those who are so far from being holy them selves, that they mock and jeer others for being so. This breastplate of righteousness is of so base an ac count with them, that they who wear it in their daily conversation do make themselves no less ridiculous to them than if they came forth in a fool's coat, or were clad in a dress contrived on purpose to move laughter.

Heaven is a city where righteousness dwells.