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Quotes About Righteousness

Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
Forgiveness is not a matter of who is right or wrong. It is a matter of doing the right thing.
~ Choa Kok Sui
Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
~ Brigham Young
What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Say what you mean to do...and take it for granted you mean to do right. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one...you will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.
~ Robert E. Lee
Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.
~ Thomas Fuller
Never lose faith! never stop doing what is right! never do things against your soul! never become someone that is not the real you! never stop giving and loving!
~ Unknown
Indulge in to what is right. Avoid what is wrong.
~ Unknown
What is Right will always be Right. What is Wrong will always be Wrong. Yet in order for Truth to prevail, we must be strong.
~ Marrett Green
If you want to have a better and happy life, know your own ethics, build a sense of right and wrong for yourself looking at all the moral questions in life and hold on to your integrity.
~ Unknown
You will always see what's wrong when you are right. But you will never see what's right when you are happy doing wrong.
~ Unknown
Respect the old, when you are YOUNG. Help the weak, when you are STRONG. Forgive the fault, when you are RIGHT. Because, one day in life you'll be OLD, WEAK, & WRONG...
~ Unknown
If you love God's gift of forgiveness more than you love your self-assessed righteousness, you know grace has visited you.
~ Unknown
You can never be wrong if you know you're doing it right!
~ Unknown
It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.
~ Marilynne Robinson
I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Sin always overpromises and underdelivers, while righteousness pays dividends for eternity... Nothing is more illogical than sin. It's the epitome of poor judgment. It's temporary insanity with eternal consequences. And we have no alibi, save the cross of Jesus Christ.
~ Mark Batterson
Faithfulness is not holding the fort. It's storming the gates of hell and taking back enemy territory that belongs to God. I'm afraid we've reduced righteousness to the absence of wrongness, but goodness is not the absence of badness. You can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right. Remember the parable of the bags of gold? Breaking even is bad. You've got to ante up everything.
~ Mark Batterson
When we do what's right, regardless of circumstances or consequences, we set the table for God to turn the tables. All we need to do is stand up, step in, or step out.
~ Mark Batterson
Nothing belongs to us, not even ourselves. But the exchange rate is unbelievable. All of our sin is transferred to Christ's account, and all of His righteousness is transferred to our account. God cancels our debt, writes us into His will, and calls it even!
~ Mark Batterson
Goodness is not the absence of badness. You can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right. Those who simply run away from sin are half-Christians. Our calling is much higher than simply running away from what's wrong. We're called to chase lions.
~ Mark Batterson
Cuando hacemos lo correcto, sin importar las circunstancias o las consecuencias, estamos creando las condiciones para que Dios vuelque las mesas. Todo lo que necesitamos hacer es decidirnos y hacerlo.
~ Mark Batterson
It is only in the context of understanding something of God's character, of his righteousness and perfection, that we begin to understand the tremendous nature of saying that God truly is love, and his love has a depth, texture, fullness, and beauty to it that we, in our present state, can only begin to wonder at.
~ Mark Dever