Quotes About Righteousness

try to do the right thing. Even though everybody hates us and nobody helps us and nobody thanks us afterward. I think doing the right thing is an end in itself. It has to be, really, doesn't it?

Certain it is that many of his stern deeds were for the right as he understood that right to be.

I try to do the right thing. Even though everybody hates us and nobody helps us and nobody thanks us afterward. I think doing the right thing is an end in itself. It has to be, really, doesn't it?

The prophet Jeremiah said that 'from the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain,'18 and the prophet Isaiah said, 'all of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags.'19 Our good deeds are stained with self-interest and our demands for justice are mixed with lust for vengeance. Ironically, it's the best people who most readily recognize and admit their own shortcomings and sin.

Why does anyone do anything? Belief. A belief that they are doing right and just in their actions.

Instead of being anxious, we are to fix our focus on God and His righteousness.

Sometimes there was a difference between the law and justice, and sometimes justice had to step outside the law. The proof of that, he thought just before he fell asleep, was that he didn't work for the Department of Law; he worked for the Department of Justice…and Justice had been served.

There it is . . . Our God declares the end in the beginning. In Christ, God loved us before we loved him, caught us before we fell, forgave us before we asked, clothed us in righteousness before we realized we were naked, and cleansed us before we were aware of our filth. God called those who were enemies, aliens, and strangers his very own children and friends. And wrote the story of our life before we drew our first breath.

I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior.

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

What joy the gospel gives me! I can approach the throne of God with confidence-not because I've done a good job at my spiritual duties, but because I'm clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

Fight the good fight, not the bad one.

That what keeps us supported is dharma (religion).

You don't have to strive to be right, because you of faith are made right.

I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

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

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

But a fight is what they most enjoy; for it is while they are fighting that their blood chemistry makes them feel most intensely themselves. 'Feeling good,' they naturally assume that they are good. Adrenalin addiction is rationalized as Righteous Indignation and finally, like the prophet Jonah, they are convinced, unshakably, that they do well to be angry.

A War Memorial was, in its very nature, a work dedicated to God. It was a token of thankfulness that the first stage in the culminating world–war had been crowned by the triumph of righteousness; it was at the same time a visibly embodied supplication that God might not long delay the Advent which alone could bring the final peace.

But please be careful—and never, never think that you are justified in doing something wrong just because you are trying to do something right.