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Quotes About Righteousness

I will protect even those I hate," Kaladin whispered through bloody lips. "So long as it is right.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I will protect even those I hate,' Kaladin whispered through bloody lips, 'So long as it is right
~ Brandon Sanderson
You cannot tempt the hearts of men who are pure.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You ... are a good man. A truly good man.' 'Good men don't become legends,' he said quietly. 'Good men don't need to become legends.' She opened her eyes, looking up at him. 'They just do what's right anyway.
~ Brandon Sanderson
But maybe you shouldn't be looking for life to be easier because you choose to do something that is right!
~ Brandon Sanderson
A coward is a person who cares more about what people say than about what is right.
~ Brandon Sanderson
OATHS, the Stormfather rumbled, ARE THE SOUL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You can be moral without following the law, and you can be immoral while following the law.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality-which answers only to my heart-is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Good men don't become legends," he said quietly. "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; it's choosing what's right over what's fun, fast, or easy; and it's practicing your values, not just professing them.
~ Brene Brown
Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them. Living
~ Brene Brown
Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.
~ Brene Brown
The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds... I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.
~ Brennan Manning
Recognize that God is with you. * Acknowledge God knows what He's doing. * Search for God's will: the path He desires you to take in life. * Consider what God did for you when He sent Jesus to die on the cross (forgiveness and righteousness)
~ Brennan Manning
The harlots who have no imagined righteousness to protect will be dancing into the Kingdom while you have your alleged virtue burned out of you!
~ Brennan Manning
In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of 'expediency.' There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only sliders are backsliders.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Sotto un governo che imprigiona ingiustamente non importa chi, il vero posto dove può vivere un uomo giusto è la prigione.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Along with every right thing to do is a right way to do it.
~ Henry T. Blackaby
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16–17
~ Henry T. Blackaby