Quotes About Righteousness

Christians, saints of God, pray that the dew of heaven may fall on earth's dry thirsty ground, and that righteousness may cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.

All believers are called to be holy in mind, body, and spirit (1 Peter 1:15).

Popular assemblies are frequently foolish in their contrivance, and weak in their execution; but generally mean to do the thing that is right and just.

My future is righteousness.

It takes a revolution to make a solution; Too much confusion, so much frustration, eh! So, my friend, I wish that you could see, Like a bird in the tree, the prisoners must be free, yeah! Never make a politician grant you a favor; They will always want to control you forever, Kill, cramp and paralyze all weak at conception; Wipe them out of creation Let righteousness cover the earth Like the water cover the sea, yeah.

Let Righteousness Cover the Earth, Like the Water Covers The Sea.

My experience with them, as well as other events in my life, convince me that the thing to do, when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing, and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.

Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

All are born with the Light of Christ, a guiding influence which permits each person to recognize right from wrong. What we do with that light and how we respond to those promptings to live righteously is part of the test of mortality.

It is the good who do not sleep.

A compleat gentleman is a man who tries to do what is right and honorable in any given situation. He seeks harmony with the laws of God, or nature, and of man.

Chivalry was more an ambition than an accomplishment, but—and this is the important thing—it was the common ambition of increasing numbers of men, and it had the effect of elevating and concretizing their civil righteousness. Religion also did this.

She went to him. "Atticus," she said. "I'm—" "You may be sorry, but I'm proud of you." She looked up and saw her father beaming at her. "What?" "I said I'm proud of you." "I don't understand you. I don't understand men at all and I never will." "Well, I certainly hoped a daughter of mine'd hold her ground for what she thinks is right—stand up to me first of all.

I don't care one speck. It ain't right, somehow it ain't right to do 'em that way. Hasn't anybody got any business talkin' like that- it just makes me sick.

Kažkas yra m?s? gyvenime, kas ver?ia žmones pamesti galvas - jie nori b?ti teisingi, o negali.

the time your friends need you is when they're wrong, Jean Louise. They don't need you when they're right—

Perhaps the most dangerous people in the world are the ones who believe in right and wrong but what they ascribe to as "right" and "wrong" is completely insane. They are bad with the conviction that they are good. That idea is the impetus behind evil.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. —MATTHEW 5:6

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome.

If I wanted to do wrong, I could not.

To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.