Quotes About Righteousness

Seek to be the man that you are least likely to be, and aim at a comprehensive development of 'all righteousness and goodness and truth.

Do not act meanly, do not be unkind, because the time for setting things right may pass before your heart changes course. Isabel Dalhousie

What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.

It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us." Alfred E. Smith, governor of New York after WWI

The path to God's favor always requires self-examination and a right heart before God.

All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

The anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.

Take wrongs patiently. Be willing to suffer for doing good (1 Pet. 3:8–17).

What we must do is to sit down together as reasonable people and make our government do what is right, and stop doing what may be wrong-headed or wasteful.

Noah walked with God; he didn't only preach righteousness, he acted it. He went through water and didn't melt. He breasted the current of the popular opinion of his day, scorning alike the hatred and ridicule of the scoffers who mocked at the thought of there being but one way of salvation.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

We cannot be unclean and expect the help of the Almighty.

One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit.

I think that indignation is pleasurable, and it's pleasurable because it's self-righteous.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.

If it is sweet to be right, then - let's not deny it - it is downright savory to point out that someone else is wrong.

I look at the Star of David as a symbol of righteousness.

We are not helping people to get God right, but to get right with God. The Holy Spirit alone opens hearts and minds.

There is no deeper pathos in the spiritual life of man than the cruelty of righteous people. If any one idea dominates the teachings of Jesus, it is his opposition to the self-righteousness of the righteous.

No matter how righteous you are, no matter how carefully you cultivate the companionship of the Holy Ghost, there are vast amounts of knowledge which you need to acquire and which you are not going to receive through revelation.