Quotes About Righteousness

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

I love the idea of rectitude.

Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence.

While love is one of God's attributes, it's not his only attribute. God is also holy and just.

The more righteous God appeared, the more resentful I became.

To encourage my son to be a true Son of God? That is to want him above all to do what is right, and to strive to have his back while he is doing so.

The righteous man pays the sinner's bill.

But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, would we be guilty if we prevented them from doing us evil?

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

There is no greater sign of a bad cause, than when the patrons of it are reduced to the necessity of making use of the most wicked artifices to support it.

Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, envenomed with malice, exalted in an opinion of thine own righteousness, leavened with hypocrisy and carnal ends in God's service.

In every sound convert the judgment is brought to approve of the laws and ways of Christ, and subscribe to them as most righteous and reasonable; the desire of the heart is to know the whole mind of Christ; the free and resolved choice of the heart is determined for the ways of Christ, before all the pleasures of sin, and prosperities of the world; it is the daily care of his life to walk with God.

A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon.

In every sound convert the judgement is brought to approve of the laws and ways of Christ, and subscribe to them as most righteous and reasonable; the desire of the heart is to know the whole mind of Christ; the free and resolved choice of the heart is determined for the ways of Christ, before all the pleasures of sin, and prosperities of the world; it is the daily care of his life to walk with God.

God finds nothing in man to turn His heart, but enough to turn his stomach.

These shall bring the measurements of the righteous, and the cords of the righteous to the righteous, that they may rely on the name of the Lord of spirits forever and ever.

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

she felt the presence of a grand design. The awareness that life had meaning beyond the moment brought a feeling of warmth and security to Galia. Doing the right things for the right reasons mattered. Further

Justice is the truth in action.

but I've always tried to do what is right for my Clan." "No cat would doubt your loyalty," the old cat rasped. "But how far would it go?

Now it's time to take off every zig for great justice.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.