Quotes About Righteousness

The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough; it is the very spirit of unsparing truth.

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

More than life, I value vindication. When you are at peace with the truth and you know that you are on the side of the right and God is on your side, you are not afraid of anything, including jail.

For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity. I acknowledge no other God but the one God of truth and righteousness.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?

By making choices consistent with eternal truth you will develop righteous character.

When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding for a little time, the splendor of the Sun.

You will never be lonely on the right path because the truth itself is the best companion a person can ever have!

Take the side of truth, you'll be right every time.

Holiness always exalts a person and brings him closer to God

You must be more committed to the truth of God's word and what is right than the flaws in our society.

You were right once, young man," Anapol said. "That may be all the being right you get.

He knew that you didn't win justice by carrying a sign or a cardboard coffin. You earned it by being on the side of the righteous, by being unswayed from that

You would think that people who had experienced injustice would be loath to inflict it on others, and yet they do so with alacrity. The victims become victimizers with a chilling righteousness. This is the nature of fanaticism, to attract and provoke extremes of behavior. And this is why fanatics are all the same, whatever specific form their fanaticism takes.

You would think that people who had experienced injustice would be loath to inflict it on others, and yet they do so with alacrity. The victims become the victimizers with a chilling righteousness. This is the nature of fanaticism, to attract and provoke extremes of behavior. And this is why fanatics are all the same, whatever specific form their fanaticism takes.

Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering pleasure and pain. It´s about declaring what is just and what is unjust, and distinguishing right from wrong. We don´t grasp these things silently, and then put words to them; language is the medium through which we discern and deliberate about the good.

A Holy War! What better than righteous piety to disguise over-reaching greed?

I think I have always had a strong sense of justice, of fair play, of what is right and what is wrong.

It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.

Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.

It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.