Quotes About Righteousness

Senhor", eu tinha escrito, "protege minha família e a mim. Perdoa meus pecados, e me ajuda a evitar o orgulho e o desespero. Dá-me sabedoria para fazer o que é certo e justo. E faz de mim instrumento da Tua vontade.

Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.

the lonely look down upon the hungry; the hungry look down upon the starving. The guilty blame the damaged. Those of doubtful righteousness speak of cannibals, the unquestionably vile, the sinners and the damned. It makes everyone feel much better.

I am losing faith in such a simple thing as despising an enemy with unequivocal righteousness.

But where is the place for girls in that Kingdom? The rules don't quite apply to us, nor protect us either. What do a girl's bravery and righteousness count for, unless she is also pretty? Just try being the smartest and most Christian seventh-grade girl in Bethlehem, Georgia. Your classmates will smirk and call you a square. Call you worse, if you're Adah.

Justice is a mighty fine thing.

the truth that people should prefer to suffer injustice than commit it, that they should actually be good instead of simply seeming to be.

throne, O God, endures forever and ever.                  Your royal scepter is a scepter of equity;                  You love righteousness and hate wickedness.

A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.

Whenever righteousness falters and chaos threatens to prevail, I take on a human body and manifest myself on earth.

Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even to go to war on God's behalf. This 'blasphemy of certainty' is also rife among secularists who in their case have not God but science or the proletariat on their side.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living." DAVID STARR JORDAN

Each of us develops a moral compass (some stronger than others, to be sure) as we make our way through the world. This is for the most part a wonderful thing. Who wants to live in a world where people run around with no regard for the difference between right and wrong?

Left-wing and right-wing political ideologies have themselves become secular religions, providing people with a community of like-minded brethren, a catechism of sacred beliefs, a well-populated demonology, and a beatific confidence in the righteousness of their cause. In

You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy.

To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.

Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.

Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.

This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer.

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin.

All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him.