Quotes About Righteousness

You [should] persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty, because it's the right thing to do.

Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist in the shadows of death. Success is no name of God. Righteousness is.

No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.

He said God could distinguish a sinner from a sin.

Evil was predictable; it cloaked itself in righteousness, convinced its enemies must be punished.

So what about me? Would I always have to find a high horse? The moral relish, the rising above, the being in the right, which can make me flaunt my losses.

I am First of the Magi. I am the last authority and I say . . . I am righteous.' 'You? No.' 'Yes, Ferro. Power makes all things right. That is my first law, and my last. That is the only law that I acknowledge.

I'm no high judge of righteousness." "Who is?" "But I find this to be a good thing." "Don't let anyone know, it might ruin my reputation." Yarvi saw an old woman glaring at him from across the square, and he smiled back, and waved, and watched her scuttle away. "It seems I've become the villain of this piece.

Probably been sure he'd got the right god, the right king, the right cause. Everyone finds a way to make their side the right one, after all. Now, as he stumbled back trying to hold his neck together, he found it's not the righteous win, but them who strike first and strike hardest.

It could give you some tough moments, your word. Could force you into places you didn't want to be, could serve you up puzzles where the right path weren't easy to pick. But it wasn't mean to be easy, it was meant to be right. There were many men always did the easy thing, regardless.

When you are committed to doing what's right, you are sowing seeds for God's blessings. You will never go wrong by taking the high road and doing more that is required.

You may have people coming against you, trying to discredit you, make you look bad. You don't have to fight that battle; just outlast them, just keep doing the right thing. Keep being faithful each day and God will take care of who's trying to stop you.

Stay on the high road. Let God be your vindicator. Let Him pay your enemies back. He sees what's happening. He sees every injustice, every hurt, every wrong. If you'll leave it up to God, He'll vindicate you better than you can vindicate yourself.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life's not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

An important mark of saving faith, then, is that a convert not only wants to be delivered from the corruption of sin, but that he also hungers and thirsts after righteousness and holiness.

as scripture says, "God is too pure to behold iniquity." Certainly God wouldn't tolerate it today and then heal you of it tomorrow. That would make of God a human being, and not even a very nice one.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

Ein guter Mensch in seinem dunklen Drange Ist sich des rechten Weges wohl bewusst.

One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life's not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Even with the trials of life, because of the Savior's Atonement and his grace, righteous living will be rewarded with personal peace.

To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.

One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.

There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.