Quotes About Righteousness

He preaches well that lives well.

Shall we side with those who scorn us, or choose our own path, to protect the innocent from those who would exploit and corrupt them?

If God accepts us at all, He accepts us wholeheartedly, and He covers us completely with the spotless robe of righteousness. This robe of divine acceptance does not come in gray, but only in dazzling white, and one either has the robe or not. One is either righteous or wicked. And anyone who is wicked can have that status quickly amended by a trip to the cross.

what I found difficult was the mixture of finger pointing and sanctimony in the whole piece, your righteous standpoint over the material, I wasn't so sure about that

God rescues His own before He Himself rains judgment down on the wicked.

Let us so absorb integrity—experiencing both its triumphs and defeats—that we do the right thing intuitively.

Earth's rightness lies in justice Speak not falsely, you are great. Act not tightly, you are weighty Speak not falsely, you are the balance.

Rightly filled justice neither falls short nor brims over.

He who reaches them without having done wrong Will exist there like a god. Free-striding like the lords forever!

What is good, and what is evil? Where do you draw the line between the two?" Now Yuriko was getting a little upset. I'm just in fifth grade, you know. They haven't taught us difficult things like that yet. "There

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.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

The sin is not in the persuasion itself, but in the intention of that individual. If the intention is pure, then your means will also be justified.

There are so many who rebel from righteousness for the sake of rebelling. They have an empty cause.

To me justice doesn't mean looking for the criminals. It means looking for the innocent.

Who may ascend the hill of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart" (Ps. 24:3–4). We need to be pure before God by turning from our sinful ways, receiving forgiveness through Christ, and walking in the Spirit. (See Romans 8:3–4.)

If what we want is God's justice, coming to sort things out, we will do better to get entirely out of the way and let God do his own work, rather than supposing our burst of anger (which will most likely have all sorts of nasty bits to it, such as wounded pride, malice and envy) will somehow help God do what needs to be done.

When God wants to sort out the world, as the Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount make clear, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the meek, the broken, the justice hungry, the peacemakers, the pure-hearted and so on.

The line between justice and injustice, between things being right and things not being right, can't be drawn between "us" and "them." It runs right down through the middle of each one of us.

But the voice goes on, calling us, beckoning us, luring us to think that there might be such a thing as justice, as the world being put to rights, even though we find it so elusive. We're like moths trying to fly to the moon. We all know there's something called justice, but we can't quite get to it.

Third, when God is king, the result is proper justice, real equity, the removal of all corruption and oppression.

But what then is this "righteousness of God"? In Israel's scriptures, to which Paul explicitly appeals in 3:21b ("the law and the prophets bore witness to it"), God's "righteousness" is not simply God's status of being morally upright. It is, more specifically, God's faithfulness to the covenant—the covenant not only with Abraham and Israel, but through Israel to the wider world.

Romans 2:17–3:9 is concerned, first, with the worldwide purpose of Israel's divine vocation (2:17–20); second, with Israel's covenantal failure (2:21–24; 3:2–4); and third, with the problem that this poses for God's dikaiosyn?, his "righteousness" (3:5). How is God to be faithful to the covenant—to rescue and bless the world through the Jews—if Israel is faithless?