Quotes About Righteousness

My mother is bold in her caused," George said. "We have never had a runaway slave come to our door, but I too would help him. My mother and I were forced to leave North Carolina when we freed our slaves. The anger our former neighbors and friends turned on us told us much. When a person does what is right, it stirs the rage of those who will not turn from doing the same evil.

Your success is not in what you do, but in who you are in Jesus. His death on the cross, His resurrection life, and His righteousness define you.

The prophet Habakkuk lived in a time that was much like ours. He, too, asked Hashem, 'Why do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?' And you know Hashem's reply as well as I do: 'The righteous shall live by his faith.

Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness" (James 3:18).

Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers his righteousness on you. (Hosea 10:12)

For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him! (30:15–18)

We live in a day and time when our rights sometimes take precedence over our pursuit of righteousness, when we get caught in the rush of seeking self rather than seeking God.

It may not always be easy, convenient or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

Clear thoughts," he said. "Clear sight. Kind words. Right acts.

All these years you drone on about benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, then you go and sell your own daughter.

El camino de la justicia está plagado de obstáculos y bombas trampa, la mayoría de ellos creados por hombres y mujeres que aseguran ser defensores de la justicia.

you ought to be good even if you did not believe that you would burn in torment forever if you were bad;

You can't get around what's right, though, he said. When we stop loving them, that's when they win.

There is no justice without truth. P.D. East

woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.

Leave off from wrath, and let go displeasure: fret not thyself, else shalt thou be moved to do evil.

Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

I am the avenging sword of taste and decency

Godliness is the root of cleanliness.

When you have a spirit of excellence, you do the right thing not because somebody is watching or making you do it; you do it because it's the right thing to do.

My righteousness is just as good as Jesus' righteousness, because it IS Jesus' righteousness!

This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.

A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

No work nor deed of ours whatsoever, no not faith itself, can be the condition of the covenant of grace properly so called; but only Christ's fulfilling all righteousness.