Quotes About Righteousness

If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.

Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?

One Must Choose Among Both Parties Either To Be A Wise Man That Die To Live In Righteousness And Blissfulness For Eternity Or Be A Foolish Man That Lives To Die For Vanity.

Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere.

We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

Nations, as well as individuals, must be virtuous and righteous if they desire to be stable, prosperous, and tranquil.

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

It's much juicier to play somebody a little more evil than Dudley Do-Right.

There's no statute of limitations on doing what's right.

justice comes in many forms.

I will meet idiots today, went one version of her after-waking meditation, and one of them will probably be me. Iau Hau'hai, Queen of Life and of Making Things Work, grant me of Your courtesy the courage to shred that idiot's ears when I meet her, and then get on with work…for being right is nothing next to having things be right…

Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.

The real voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle delineation between the beautiful and profane. It's not an agitated voice, but ever patient as though it approves a million false starts. The voice I am talking about is a deep water of calming wisdom.

Have the courage to speak the truth, to do what is right, and to fight for what you believe.

righteousness/waves. When we obey the Lord's commandments our righteousness will be unstoppable, as waves are. Also, our righteousness will truly be subject to the pull of the heavens, as the waves are subject to the moon.

You and I are living in a universe where there is a God, a loving God, a God whose heart goes out in love and yearning over you. But I want to say this to you: if you turn your back on Him He will judge you even though He still loves you. He is the righteous God of this universe.

Righteousness is innocence that has been maintained in the presence of temptation.

The purpose of the Scripture is for instruction in righteousness. It was not written to teach you geology or biology. It was written to show man's relationship to God and God's requirements for man and what man must do to be saved. You can write this over the first part of the book of Genesis: "What must I do to be saved?

My friend, after you have been saved, God is going to talk to you about good works. Until that time, God is not even interested in your 'good works' because what you call a good work, God calls dirty laundry. The righteousness of man is filthy rags in His sight (Isaiah 64:6). He doesn't want any of that. He wants to save you.