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Quotes About Righteousness

God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
~ John Stott
The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.
~ Jupiter Hammon
Peace is a blessing that comes to those who trust in God. It is established through individual righteousness. True personal peace comes about through eternal vigilance and constant righteous efforts.
~ Marvin J. Ashton
I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.
~ Randall Terry
Joy and pleasure is at the end of the justice. A right understanding of who God is and who we are in His creation.
~ Sho Baraka
The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
The bottom line is we are trying to do what's right. We don't just say we believe in God - we have active relationships with God.
~ Jase Robertson
The goal is the developed Kingdom of god, the New Jerusalem, a world order under god's law.
~ R.J. Rushdoony
Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He IS that standard.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
God declared me righteous!
~ Charles R. Swindoll
Your fellowship with God never came because of your righteousness. So how could your own righteousness maintain it?
~ Chris Oyakhilome
When God speaks and we obey, we will always be right.
~ Thomas S. Monson
We must reacquaint ourselves with the biblical weight of the problem that we less-than-perfect human beings contend with in the face of a holy and righteous God.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
~ Lucretius
Integrity... does not mean sinless, but it does describe a person who by God's grace "sin less."
~ Sam Storms
Forgiveness is not saying that the one who hurt you was right. Forgiveness is stating that God is faithful and he will do what is right.
~ Max Lucado
I'm no more a lawbreaker than they are , and if they were lawbreakers for keeping God's commandments, they're my example.
~ Tom Green
Before Allah nothing of our material existence impresses Allah. It is our righteousness and our uprightness alone that impresses God.
~ Louis Farrakhan
God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.
~ Martin Luther
Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we would be angry and not sin, we must be angry at nothing but sin; and we should be more jealous for the glory of God than for any interest or reputation of our own.
~ Matthew Henry
... God is going to judge righteously... . what did each one do in relation to what he or she knew to be right of wrong?
~ Pat Robertson
A holy God is both just and merciful. He is never unjust.
~ R. C. Sproul