Quotes About Righteousness

The Word says: "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just,And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel,Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judgeThat no king can corrupt.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!

God defend the right!

This even-handed justice.

He, who the sword of heaven will bearShould be as holy as severe.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

God's righteousness has nothing to do with the law. We can never obtain God's righteousness by going to the law. As far as God's righteousness is concerned, the law is over. The law was the old dispensation. Now without law, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been manifested through faith of Jesus Christ.

Indeed, days are coming, / Declares Jehovah, / When I will raise up to David a righteous Shoot… / And this is His name by which He will be called: / Jehovah our righteousness" (23:5-6; cf. 33:16).

Although you may argue that it is not wrong to steal from others, the nature within you protests whenever you are tempted to steal. Even bank robbers will admit that, as they rob banks, their nature tells them, "Don't do this." However, they will not listen. It is the same with every evil-doer. Whenever they do something wrong, their nature disagrees. We need to observe the requirements of the nature within us.

We have seen the five items in the way of restriction: knowing God by His creation, holding the truth of God in righteousness, living according to our nature, listening to our conscience, and caring for our proper reasonings. If we observe all these things, we will be restricted from every kind of evil.

There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by force that it is right

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

There is nothing that succeeds in life like boldness, provided you believe you are on the right side.

The one thing he did die a martyr to was his own conscience. He wanted to do the right thing because it was his idea of the thing to do, and for that—and that alone—he died. This is the satisfaction which you and I will always have.

large number of biblical texts prove deeply useful for what 2 Timothy calls "training in righteousness.

Yours, O Lord, is the day, Yours also is the night; cover our sins with Your mercy as You cover the earth with darkness; and grant that the Son of Righteousness may always shine in our hearts, to chase away the darkness of all evil thoughts; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. —ANONYMOUS

Dr. Murray points to the Nazarite system as what he calls an external scaffolding supporting human efforts at righteousness, reminding the participant that he is set apart. Christ, he said, needed no external reminder that the Father was His joy and that wine was not, that He was Life and was wholly Other from death, that He bore on Himself the shame that long hair but vaguely pointed to.

Though there is no evil in righteousness, there is in self-righteousness

The mind would like us to think that there is such a thing as "justifiable anger," which takes the form of moralistic indignation. If we look at moralistic indignation, we will see that it is propped up by vanity and pride. We like to think how right we are in a situation and how "wrong" the other persons are.

to humble the sinner; to exalt the Saviour; to promote holiness.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.