Quotes About Righteousness

Thou shalt not receive any gift; for a gift bindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous." (Exod. xxiii. 8.)

History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.

Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

Heavenly Father has given us a priceless gift in our capacity to communicate with each other. Our communications are at the core of our relationships with others. If we are to return home safely to Heavenly Father, we must develop righteous relationships with His children here in mortality.

Not doing evil is happiness.

In Amma's snideness, I caught a whiff of desperation and righteousness. Like she'd whined at breakfast: I wish I'd be murdered. Amma didn't want anyone to get more attention than her. Certainly not girls who couldn't compete when they were alive.

In Amma's snideness, I caught a whiff of desperation and righteousness. Like she'd whined at breakfast: I wish I'd be murdered. Amma didn't want anyone to get more attention than her. Certainly not girls who couldn't compete when they were alive.

If you always do the easier thing, then you cannot possibly remain steadfast when it becomes necessary to take a difficult stand. You must do what you know to be right. And you do know. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred you do know and you are just making excuses because the right thing is so hard, or just inconvenient.

If each man picks an evil and attacks it relentlessly, how long can evil persist? That was an easy one. Forever. More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.

Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.

righteousness is not a shield. The good die more quickly than the bad.

More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. Few villains think they are villains.

This sect preaches that there is little true Islam in this world and that the only option open to the individual is to denounce contemporary Muslim society as "ignorant" or nonbelieving and to take refuge, either in a special righteous community (like Calvin's City of God) or, more commonly, within oneself, to find purity of belief and action against the corrupting influences of society.

Never presume yours is a better morality.

Doubt is the heart of the matter. Abolish all doubt, and what's left is not faith, but absolute, heartless conviction. You're certain that you possess the Truth -- inevitably offered with an implied uppercase T -- and this certainty quickly devolves into dogmatism and righteousness, by which I mean a demonstrative, overweening pride in being so very right, in short, the arrogance of fundamentalism.

His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room.

Justice is God's business. Nothing ever balances out equal in this world. Only in Heaven.

No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that's in the right and keeps on a comin'. —Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger

When New Testament authors stress that salvation is not arrived at by works, as first-century Jews, these authors are referring to works of the law. They are saying that God's righteousness does not come by external obedience to the law, as some Jews of their day supposed.

Despotism despieses nothing so much as righteousness in its victims

Despotism despises nothing so much as righteousness in its victims.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us.

I cannot hardly speak to myself let alone to him. I feel the world is against me and at the same time I feel miserably at odds with everything. I have the awkward sense that if I open my mouth people will know me for the villain I am. At the same time, or in the next breath, tears keep surging up into my eyes, tears of some righteousness, because my mind keeps rising to righteousness. All in all I am like a ragged wind in a tangled hedge.