Quotes About Righteousness

We can rely on the righteous Ruler.

2 Timothy 3:16 ALL Scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness.

Is the any model like morality?

If we do right, we shall rejoice.

Morality itself requires transcendence, the existence of a "real" goodness.

The limitations of literalness and an excessive reliance upon reciprocity as a principle for constructing an ultimate environment can result either in an overcontrolling, stilted perfectionism or "works righteousness" or in their opposite, an abasing sense of badness embraced because of mistreatment, neglect or the apparent disfavor of significant others.

Arn at once agreed that this must be abominable in God's eyes, and he added that everything must be done to right this wrong.

Wasnt it more important to be loyal to what was right or to those people you knew and cared about? What was the good of killing people or being hateful to them because someone you didn't know was doing something hateful to someone ekse you didn't know?

There is no mercy in trading life for life. And certainly no righteousness. Mercy, once given, cannot be taken back.

Robin Hood might not have existed. Maybe there never was a band of Merry Men waiting in Sherwood Forest for King Richard's return. But I'd like to think it happened. We've seen him in other times and places. Some people still stand up for what's right, some people do protect the helpless, some people fight for justice – and that's what makes the story of Robin Hood true.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

If you want revival, get right with God. If you are not prepared to bring the last piece, for God's sake stop talking about revival, your talking and praying is but the laughing-stock of devils. It is about time we got into the grips of reality. Are we thirsty?

Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at all cost, that needs the drama in order to assert its identity as the victorious character within that theatrical production? Can you feel there is something in you that would rather be right than at peace?

For example, even such a seemingly trivial and "normal" thing as the compulsive need to be right in an argument and make the other person wrong — defending the mental position with which you have identified — is due to the fear of death. If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation.

Don't expect the material rewards of unrighteousness while engaged in the pursuit of truth.

A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

Of all broken reeds," Roosevelt declared, "sentimentality is the most broken reed on which righteousness can lean.

With our touch, Jesus becomes our scapegoat. In his touch, Jesus takes our sin and absorbs our shame (Psalm 69:9; Romans 15:3), and we receive his righteousness. If you prefer symmetry in your relationships, in which you give a gift of similar value to the one you receive, you have not yet touched Jesus.

Anger shows contempt. You are better than they. You are smarter, more righteous—you are above and they are below. Anger tears down. It kills relationships.

What is immoral to do is immoral to threaten.

True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Dite: io non vorrei altro che trovarvi senza colpa.

No man shall be the avenger of his own wrongs, especially by a deed alike interdicted by the laws of God and man.

A gude conscience is the best divinity.