Quotes About Righteousness

Lisa Scottoline

It may sound as if Elizabeth and her husband were obedient and so earned God's approval, but, in truth, it was the other way around. God's power and strength at work in their lives made it possible for them to do the right thing in the first place.

righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

I shall not lie! Eilonwy cried, not for this traitor and deserter. It is not for him, Taran said quietly, but for the sake of our quest. It isn't right, Eilonwy began, tears starting in her eyes. We do not speak of rightness, Taran answered. We speak of a task to be finished.

So the difference between a criminal and a hero is the order in which their vile crimes are committed. And justice comes with a sell-by date. In that case, you'd better hurry. You wouldn't want your heroism to spoil.

It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista.

Save me from the virtuous.

It wouldn't be a bad idea if there were something to distinguish good men from bad.

if we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evil.

You believe in heroes?" Corvino looked at him thoughtfully. "I cannot believe in anything else. A man needs heroes. He needs to believe in strength, nobility and courage. Otherwise we become sheep to be herded to the slaughterhouse of death. I believe this. I am a soldier. I try to fight for the right cause. Sometimes it is hard to know.

There could be no tolerating of evil. One stamped it out or the evil grew worse.

If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.

I almost wish I hadn't any conscience, it's so inconvenient. If I didn't care about doing the right and didn't feel uncomfortable when doing wrong, I should get on capitally.

It is necessary to do right; it is not necessary to be happy.

The sincere wish to be good is half the battle.

Virtue was its own reward.

I never yield to injustice if I can help it, ...

Then I don't feel as if I'd wasted my life. I'm not so good as you make me, but I have tried to do right. And now, when it's too late to begin even to do better, it's such a comfort to know that someone loves me so much, and feels as if I'd helped them.

Of course, to attain righteousness by observing the law, people must keep the law perfectly (James 2:10), which no person is capable of doing.

I follow the Law—the Most Excellent Law.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God. — Søren Kierkegaard

The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue.

Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.

There is no strength without justice.