Quotes About Righteousness

Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.

How can we expect fate to let a righteous cause prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause?

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

True courage is born only when it is accompanied by justice.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.

Great courage will be required to choose the right.

If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.

Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right.

When moral courage feels that it is in the right there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.

It's not being angry that's important, it's being angry about the right things. I told her, Look at it from the Darwinian perspective. Anger is to make you effective. That's its survival function. That's why it's given to you. If it makes you ineffective, drop it like a hot potato.

There is only one way for any of us to resolve the tension between the high ideals of the gospel and the grim reality of ourselves: to accept that we will never measure up, but that we do not have to. We are judged by the righteousness of the Christ who lives within, not our own.

Jesus proclaimed unmistakably that God's law is so perfect and absolute that no one can achieve righteousness. Yet God's grace is so great that we do not have to.

contentment, which is the last victory of justice

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

He could not harm me, for I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse

If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.

We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what isn't one's own ... Then, it turns out that this doing one's own work-provided that it comes to be in a certain way-is justice.

if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his action, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting life a good or a bad man.

a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong—acting the part of a good man or of a bad.