Quotes About Righteousness

Becker has never found a mass audience is because he shames us with the knowledge of how easily we will shed blood to purchase the assurance of our own righteousness.

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Don't you know it is wrong to kill? Yes. But you do it? Yes. And you still believe absolutely that your cause is right? Yes.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure that you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

Do right. Fear Nothing.

I fear nothing when I am doing right,' said Jack. 'Then,' said the lady in the red cap, 'you are one of those who slay giants.

The real danger is that the good guys will blindly keep doing bad things that they don't see as bad.

Tell me something so that when you look your god in the eye, you can convince yourself you're a good man.

The difference between the good and the bad is the law." "No, Jessica," Damian replies sharply. "The difference is that the good look out for the innocent and protect them from the wicked.

None has suffered more cruelly than the Jew the unspeakable evils wrought on the bodies and spirit of men by Hitler and his vile regime. The Jew bore the brunt of the Nazis' first onslaught upon the citadels of freedom and human dignity . . . Once again, at the appointed time, he will see vindicated those principles of righteousness which it was the glory of his fathers to proclaim to the world.

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

Os justos serão reconhecidos por sua modéstia.

Whosoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. Genesis, 9:6 Verily, great self-righteousness and great blindness are needed to call the gore pouring from the scaffold justice. Vysogota

right standing with God comes through faith in the promises of God.

Don't good things come to good people?

Virtue is its own punishment.

righteousness, they will repent and return to the Lord.

will bless us once again. Then we will rehearse the righteous acts of Adonai and thank Him for His mercy.

We unavoidably stand in so many unholy places and are subjected to so much that is vulgar, profane, and destructive of the Spirit of the Lord that I encourage our Saints all over the world, wherever possible, to strive to stand more often in holy places.

I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.

The price of peace is righteousness.

Dad was a very, very principled man, and he hated any kind of story where the baddies get away with it.