Quotes About Righteousness

Almighty God, help me to be a good listener to Your voice speaking to my heart. I don't want to drown it out with the noise and busyness of life. Help me to take every thought captive in obedience to Your Word. Keep me from entertaining unrighteousness in my thought life. Enable me to be diligent in not allowing anything into my mind that does not glorify You.

Lord, I don't want to entertain sin in my heart. I want my heart to be right before You so that You will always hear my prayers. I know I don't do everything perfectly, so I ask that by the power of Your Holy Spirit You will enable me to keep my heart pure and my hands clean. Thank You for loving me and helping me do what is right in Your sight.

righteousness - the moral justification to act with cruelty.

When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders'.

I'm very comfortable being right," she admitted. "We all are. But sometimes it's a lonely place.

Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.

Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the resisters are acting in the name of justice. And the justice of the cause does not depend on, and is not enhanced by, the virtue of those who make the assertion. It depends first and last on the truth of a description of a state of affairs that is, truly, unjust and unnecessary.

The irony of all this is that God of perfect justice is both the one for whom we long and the one whom we dread. We long for someone to set things right, to punish those who terrorize, molest, kills and enslave the innocent... we want a judge with total power and piercing commitment to righteousness. But when his eyes turn on us, we realize that we too, are guilty. We, too, deserve his judgement.

True purity, however, is a direction, a persistent, determined pursuit of righteousness. This direction starts in the heart, and we express it in a lifestyle that flees opportunities for compromise.

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Courage not aligned with a higher good isn't always positive—a burglar can be plenty courageous as he robs you blind.

Seiner Erfahrung nach wurden die schlimmsten Übel auf der Welt nicht durch böse Menschen bewirkt. Von denen gab es in Wahrheit erstaunlich wenige. Viel gefährlicher waren Leute, die sich im Recht glaubten. Sie waren ungeheuer zahlreich, und sie kannten keine Gnade.

I beat no one who did not deserve it

America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

I'm always inspired by people who choose to do what is right, not what is easy.

I'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness.

My intention has never to commit something wrong and I have always believed in abiding the law.

Calling sin righteous and righteousness sin will always bear consequences.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride—it is always considered a sin. Therefore, no matter how the world uses the term, we must understand how God uses the term so we can understand the language of holy writ and profit thereby.

Each day the forces of evil and the forces of good enlist new recruits. Each day we personally make many decisions showing the cause we support. The final outcome is certain---the forces of righteousness will win. But what remains to be seen is where each of us personally, now and in the future, will stand in this battle---and how tall we will stand. Will we be true to our last days and fulfill our foreordained missions?

It is good strategy to stand up for the right, even when it is unpopular. Perhaps I should say, especially when it is unpopular.

As a conservative, I believe we must wage war upon the brute forces of poverty and need--and this, of course, is actually waging peace. I believe we can wage peace most effectively by standing firmly for right, freedom, and justice.