Quotes About Righteousness

When I think that these precious souls are to-day shut up in the prison-house of slavery, my feelings overcome me, and I am almost ready to ask, Does a righteous God govern the universe? and for what does he hold the thunders in his right hand, if not to smite the oppressor, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the spoiler?

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

And others are proud of their modicum of righteousness, and for the sake of it do violence to all things: so that the world is drowned in their unrighteousness.

unrighteousness. Ah! how ineptly cometh the word virtue out of their mouth! And when they say: I am just, it always soundeth like: I am just—revenged!

A small revenge is humaner than no revenge at all. And if the punishment be not also a right and an honor to the transgressor, I do not like your punishing. Nobler is it to own oneself in the wrong than to establish one's right, especially if one be in the right. Only, one must be rich enough to do so. I do not like your cold justice; out of the eye of your judges there always glanceth the executioner and his cold steel. Tell me: where find we justice, which is love with seeing eyes?

To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful men who accepted Him and allied themselves to His life, righteousness would show itself as mercy.

And what shall man be called Ã¢â'¬Â¦ wise and righteous

Faced with defeat, they judged their actions against their consciences and ruled themselves righteous.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Americans do not have to agree on everything, but we should be united on what we know is right and against what is wrong. And we all know that the Democrat Party is wrong, as is the liberal media who collude with them - wolves in sheep's clothing.

Men and women who sell their birthright for a mess of pottage will tell you that their demise began with something small, with some seemingly insignificant breach of integrity that escalated. The little things do matter. It is not possible to profess righteousness while flirting with sin.

Be always sure you are right - then go ahead.

It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness.

No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.

I believe in doing the right things; that is my character and personality.

Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing.

Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

The saved man seeks to conform himself to the Word and will of God; the self-righteous man seeks to conform God and the world to his word and will. The