Quotes About Righteousness

Stick by your righteous guns and you will bless your fellowman. Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible--but in that order.

I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

Simply this. If God was so sure that righteous Jewish men and women wouldn't murder, why did He bother with the sixth commandment?

Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.Let justice be done, though the world perish.

Whenever we are sure that we are among the righteous, we immediately find ourselves among the arrogant.

Gross injustice demonstrates a basic premise: in our world, something is terribly wrong and cries out to be put right.

knowing that he has justice on his side, knows also that he is defeated.

the kingdom of God and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you," and he said the Kingdom was within man. The Kingdom is the realm of right ideas, or the divine pattern.

François Goyot de Pitavals

The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on this planet. Christ will reign in righteousness. Disease will be arrested. Death will be modified. War will be abolished. Nature will be changed. Man will live as it was originally intended he should live.

The Bible teaches that whosoever is born of God does not practice sin.

Why is it that the cross has become the symbol of Christianity? It is because at the cross Jesus purchased our redemption and provided a righteousness which we could not ourselves earn.

Satan's method has often been to imitate God. Satan is still using this form of deception, and often his representatives are being disguised as ministers of righteousness.

In the struggle for righteousness, there is nothing more helpful than being passionately in tune with Christ through His Spirit and being passionately committed to doing His will. It has been said that in order to tune in to God's voice, we must tune out this world's noise.

God] alone is perfect. Even His anger is righteous, because it is directed solely against evil.

God does not discipline us to subdue us but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness. In His wisdom, He knows that an uncontrolled life is an unhappy life, so He puts reins on our wayward souls that they may be directed into the paths of righteousness.

We have largely lost sight of the holiness and purity of God today. This is one reason why we tolerate sin so easily.

God's will is that we would be righteous in our living. God is holy, and the whole scheme of redemption has holiness for its goal.

Nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin.

Make it your goal to become more like Christ by refusing to let sin have its way, and pursuing instead that which is pure and good in the sight of God.

If the United Nations could bring lasting peace, man could say to God, "We do not need You anymore. We have brought peace on earth and have organized humanity in righteousness." All of these schemes are patchwork remedies that a sick and dying world must use while waiting for the Great Physician.

I believe a Christian can sin, but he does not have to. God never would have told us to reject evil acts if in point of fact we could not help but do them.

When everyone does what is right in his own eyes, there is no possibility of order and peace.

The fact that immorality is rampant throughout the nation doesn't make it right!