Quotes About Righteousness

A world is supported by four things. …" She held up four big-knuckled fingers. "… the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing. …" She closed her fingers into a fist. "… without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!

Of course, as someone once observed, there is no right way to do something wrong

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Black prophetic fire is the hypersensitivity to the suffering of others that generates a righteous indignation that results in the willingness to live and die for freedom.

Every time I think of Doug Wilson, I think 'pathetic.' When it comes between something for himself or something for righteousness, he'll choose himself.

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

A winner for me is someone who stands up for the right, is honest and can even go against their friends while pursuing truth.

You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It's just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can't throw enough darkness on light to put it out.

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.

If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.

The thing, in general, about being a good person is just do the right thing as often as possible.

In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

They want to do the right thing, most people. For that little core that doesn't want to do the right thing and gets away with it routinely, most people want to see them get a good whupping. And I am your girl.

It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.

Sometimes you have to stand up for what's right, and sometimes that may be ruffling feathers and may be frowned upon by everyone else, but at the end of the day in your heart, knowing you're on the right side of history and knowing that you did the right thing, good or bad, you have to live with that.

I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.

Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing.

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me.

People can say or think whatever they want... so in my reality, it's kind of irrelevant. I'm always the kind of person that does the right thing and keeps my side of the street clean.

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.

History shows that Americans believe in doing the right thing.