Quotes About Righteousness

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right

KREON. Ich gehe, von dir verkannt, gerecht jedoch vor diesen.

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.

Honesty is doing what you know or believe is right. Integrity is doing what is right and truthful.

To choose holiness is to reject sin.

Do not become a slave to sin.

Unclean life is ungodliness.

Those who are men in God's eyes would live and die for the promotion of equity, fairness and impartiality

Just are the ways of God,And justifiable to men;Unless there be who think not God at all.

I did everything that might be expected from a person entirely ignorant of God's righteousness who works to build his own self-righteousness.

If we go to church or share our faith or read our Bibles or serve the poor out of a sense of mere duty or in order to achieve our own righteousness, then we lose the satisfaction God intended for us to experience when we willingly offer ourselves to His Glory. This is a tragedy of tremendous proportion and steals from the joy of our salvation.

There can be no compromise between wrong and right. Germany is wrong and the Allies are right. The devastations of Belgium and the atrocities of the invading horde of barbarians are an outrage to civilized mankind.

We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

O, the lessons here for us! Name your discouraging setback—personal, political, scholarly, ecclesiastical, cultural, global. Dare any Christian say that God is not in this for the good of his people and the glory of his name? Not if our God is the God of Ezra! Do you think these setbacks are not without some great purpose of righteousness bigger and more stunning than any of us can imagine?

The supremacy of God in all things is the great reward we long for in fasting. His supremacy in our own affections and in all our life-choices. His supremacy in the purity of the church. His supremacy in the salvation of the lost. His supremacy in the establishing of righteousness and justice. And his supremacy for the joy of all peoples in the evangelization of the world.

It would seem more appropriate to say that we are debtors to God's justice, not to his grace.

when Paul says in Romans 4:3, 5, 9, and 22 that 'faith is counted as righteousness,' he does not mean that our faith is our righteousness. He means that our faith unites us to Christ so that God's righteousness in Christ is reckoned to us.

I also saw, moreover, that it was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor yet my bad frame that made my righteousness worse, for my righteousness was Jesus Christ himself

But his goodness is not disconnected from his righteousness. It is not bestowed in a way that would deny his infinite value and beauty and greatness. This is why God's righteousness involves final punishment as well as goodness. When God punishes the unrepentant in hell, he is not bestowing his goodness on them. But he does not cease to be good. His holiness and righteousness govern the bestowal of his goodness.

This is the great ground of joy in the word of the cross: Justification is by grace alone (not mixed with our merit), through faith alone (not mixed with our works), on the basis of Christ alone (not mingling his righteousness with ours), to the glory of God alone (not ours).

No true Christian can endure in battling unrighteousness unless his heart is aflame with new spiritual affections, or passions.

It is a great thing to die; and, when flesh and heart fail, to have God for the strength of our heart, and our portion forever. I know whom I have believed, and he is able to keep that which I have committed against that great day. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me that day. 28

In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong" (Job 1:22, RSV).

If you want to fight sin by taking bread away from your own mouth, then put it in the mouth of the poor. Then we will see if you are really fasting for righteousness'sake.