Quotes About Righteousness

We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent.

Believe in God, it's only one God. F*** all that religion s***. Believe in one God, and do right. Try your best to do right, we ain't perfect. Just do that and everything will be straight.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

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

The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.

Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

God alone is perfectly and consistently just. We forget; God remembers. We see an action; God sees a motive. This qualifies Him as the best recordkeeper and judge.

Pure religion is having the courage to do what is right and let the consequence follow.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

Life is not fair, but one day God's going to settle the score. He's going to right the wrongs. So, who can get better justice - you or God?

I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

Whoever knows God, depart from evil.

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.

When you do what you know is right,' Father explained, 'you find a dignity in yourself that makes you a happy person.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.

In the name of Israel's God, if every man would do right, and when he has done what he knows is right, then stops till he knows what next, there never would be a jar in the camp. And I defy the man to come forward that ever led so large a people in such difficult and trying circumstances, in so much peace, as I have led this people during this campaign, with the help of God and my brethren.

To grasp the depth and implications of the humanist revolution, consider how modern European culture differs from medieval European culture. In 1300 people in London, Paris and Toledo did not believe that humans could determine by themselves what is good and what is evil, what is right and what is wrong, what is beautiful and what is ugly. Only God could create and define goodness, righteousness and beauty. Although

My mouth speaks what is true, for my lips detest wickedness. All the words of my mouth are just; none of them is crooked or perverse" (PROVERBS 8:7-8).

LORD, who may dwell in your sanctuary? Who may live on your holy hill? He whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from his heart and has no slander on his tongue, who does his neighbor no wrong and casts no slur on his fellowman (PSALM 15:1-3).