Quotes About Righteousness

If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic.

The Clowns were Hungry. They did not want to wait to be fed. But when they sated there hunger, they wanted it to be in the right way, for the right reasons. They could wait . The Grace Keepers

Do right. Fear Nothing.

He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.

To Declare Your Stand For Righteousness Is To Eliminate Fear

Virtue is never left to stand alone. He who has it will have neighbors.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Keeping away from all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impurities.

The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are, Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non violence.

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make directly for the point in view. Wherefore, acts in accordance with them are called right acts, for they lead along the right road.

You can pass your life in an equable flow of happiness if you can follow the right way and think and act in the right way.

Ideals of liberty , freedom and righteousness do not prosper in the 20th century excepts they coincide with oil, rubber, gold, diamond, coal, iron, sugar, coffee, and such other minerals and products desired by the privileged, capitalists and leaders who control the system of government.

The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion.

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

Superintendent Stanislaus Oates of the Central Investigation Department, New Scotland Yard, was one of those happy people who retain throughout their lives a childlike belief in a sharp dividing line between that which is wrong and that which is right. It is this peculiarity which is common to all the great English policemen and is probably the basis of their reputation both for integrity and for stupidity.

You must never be fearful of what you are doing when it is right.

Outrage... can (and often does) look like arrogance or offensiveness or, certainly, impropriety. But it can be what fuels love of justice and mercy.

And the Lord said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing?…Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave, I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know."(Genesis 18:17, 20–21)

The righteousness by which we are justified is imputed; the righteousness by which we are sanctified is imparted. The first is our title to heaven, the second is our fitness for heaven.