Quotes About Righteousness

Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.

Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.

The white flower of a blameless life.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.

A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.

16Then justice shall abide in the wilderness And righteousness shall dwell on the farm land. 17For the work of righteousness shall be peace, And the effect of righteousness, calm and confidence forever.

10(Hailg the just man, for he shall fare well; He shall eat the fruit of his works. 11Woe to the wicked man, for he shall fare ill; As his hands have dealt, so shall it be done to him.)

Why are you distressed, And why is your face fallen? 7cSurely, if you do right, There is uplift. But if you do not do right Sin couches at the door; Its urge is toward you, Yet you can be its master.

Right wrongs no man.

It must be important to God, for he tells us that "without holiness no one will see the Lord" (Heb. 12:14). Holiness is not a list of dos and don'ts. Rather, it is Christlikeness.

God honors you when you take a stand for what is right.

21 I do not frustrate the Grace of God (if we make anything other than the Cross of Christ the Object of our Faith, we frustrate the Grace of God, which means we stop its action, and the Holy Spirit will no longer help us): for if Righteousness come by the Law (any type of Law), then Christ is dead in vain. (If I can successfully live for the Lord by any means other than Faith in Christ and the Cross, then the Death of Christ was a waste.)

Briguei muito mediano, não obrei injustiça nem ruindades nenhumas; nunca disso me reprovam.

To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about it.

Human beings had been created with a free will that made them choose to be one of the good guys or one of the bad guys. These days, unfortunately, more and more people seemed to be taking the low road.

Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good.

We learn, also, that those who do only THAT WHICH IS RIGHT, endure nothing in misfortune but a trial of their virtue, and from trials well endured derive the surest claim to the protection of heaven.

There can be no degradation, my Lord, where there is no vice," replied Vivaldi; "and there are instances, pardon me, my Lord, there are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.

He was trying to get me to come inside and away from the scene, but I said, "No." I said, "We have to stay here and watch because this is wrong.

the path of rectitude is a straight one, and that he who steps into devious byways is going astray.

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.