Quotes About Righteousness

Time was, I shrank from what was right, From fear of what was wrong; I would not brave the sacred fight, Because the foe was strong. But now I cast that finer sense And sorer shame aside; Such dread of sin was indolence, Such aim at heaven was pride. J. H. NEWMAN.

The notion of justice creates an irreparable split between the just and the unjust, the righteous and the unrighteous, whereas the notion of wisdom evokes the sense of equality and solidarity.

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

The way to overcome fear is simply to do what is right.

The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.

But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.

We must first see the righteousness of God condemning, and then the righteousness of God justifying will appear worthy of all acceptation.

By having fellowship with sin, which is abominable, we make ourselves abominable.

is no breach of the law of meekness to show our displeasure at the wickedness of the wicked.

You have been told what is good and what Yahweh wants of you. Only this, that you live justly, love tenderly, and walk humbly with your God." (Micah 6:8)

It is not possible to live happily if one does not lead a beautiful, righteous, and wise life, or to lead a beautiful, righteous, and wise life if one is not happy. EPICURUS

and believe in Me, so that they may be rightly

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

It doesn't matter who's right but what's right.

The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.

You must never be fearful when what you're doing is right.

Age after age, when the wick of Righteousness burns low, the Avatar comes yet once again to rekindle the torch of Love and Truth.

All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience!

Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us unmercifully when we do wrong.

No man is a man without high morals and ethics.

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant. If you are righteous, then what you do will also be righteous. We should not think that holiness is based on what we do but rather on what we are, for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctified our works.

Benevolence is man's mind, and righteousness is man's path.