Quotes About Righteousness

Wise words bring many benefits, and hard work brings rewards. Fools think their own way is right, but the wise listen to others. PROVERBS 12:14-

Carefully determine what pleases the Lord. Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them. —Ephesians 5:10–11

It is through faith that a righteous person has life. —Galatians 3:11

The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. —James 5:16

Keep yourself completely above reproach; avoid even the appearance of wrongdoing (see 1 Thessalonians 5:22, KJV).

For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God's glorious standard. Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. —Romans 3:23–24

When people do what is right, it shows that they are righteous, even as Christ is righteous. —1 John 3:7

God says it is a righteous act to regard (or care for) the life of our animals. Logic tells us that this means we should treat them well, care for their needs, and protect and provide for them.

But your forgiveness is done here, which means you should be practical — and respectful of other people and their experience. In other words, when you're living your everyday life, be kind. Your job isn't to correct others. Just help the Holy Spirit clean up your wrong mind by switching to your right mind, and then leave the rest to Him.

Morality can go to its father the devil.

One person (Adam) is responsible for all sin; one Person (Jesus) is responsible for all righteousness.

Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her— that all heaven, though it were crowded with spirits watching them, must be on her side.

In the midst of life we are in death" — how the present moment is all we can call our own for works of mercy, of righteous dealing, and of family tenderness. All very old truths — but what we thought the oldest truth becomes the most startling to us in the week when we have looked on the dead face of one who has made a part of our own lives. For

The self-righteous person's superfluity of moral credit is the basis of his discourse. He presupposes his own moral values and his own righteousness as a condition of conversation. The effect of this is that anyone talking to a self-righteous person must either agree with his moral values and act equally self-righteous, or face being put in a morally inferior position in the discourse. This is what makes self-righteous people particularly infuriating to talk to. F

I'd recommend the high road to anybody. You wonder about it and you don't really appreciate it until you do it and you find that it worked for everyone. But I recommend it.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

My beliefs are that good people who work hard get their rewards. There will be struggle at times and hurdles along the way - life throws up all sorts - but in the end, you will prevail if you stick to the right path.

Do the right things, respect your elders, respect your teachers, continue to work hard, and if you are religious and you have some type of faith... pray.

I believe in people. Human beings, deep down, are essentially good. Any jury can filter through whatever bull might be thrown their way and use common sense to get to the truth of a case. Juries make the right decisions, almost unfailingly, because people know right from wrong.

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remained neutral with both sides, although not agreeing with either as to the righteousness of their respective orders.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.