Righteousness Quotes

That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

But the LORD Almighty will be exalted by his justice, and the holy God will show himself holy by his righteousness.

As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions.

We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment.

In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in Christ, His face shines out, full of grace and gentleness to poor, unworthy sinners.

Unless we ardently and prayerfully devote ourselves to Christ's righteousness we do not only faithlessly revolt from our Creator, but we also abjure him as our Savior.

I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.

Any moment you're willing to give up your fig leaves, which you think are covering you, God will give you His righteousness, which will really cover you.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power.

When the great Tao is abandoned, benevolence and righteousness arise.

I can't help but wonder why we, as Christ professing young women so easily submit our minds and emotions to an industry that openly mocks the purity and righteousness of our Heavenly Prince.

...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

Righteousness has never precluded adversity.

Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.

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

In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of righteousness and eternal life.

The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.

God will restore his planet and his children to their Garden of Eden splendor. It'll be perfect. Perfect in grandeur. Perfect in righteousness. Perfect in harmony.

Frankly, liberals are out of the habit of communicating with anyone outside their own in cohort. We have a cultural problem with self-righteousness and elitism.

The Prophet Joseph Smith warned us to ‘beware of self-righteousness’ and to enlarge our hearts toward all men and women until we feel ‘to take them upon our shoulders.

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.

Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone.

I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.

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.

When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet!

It is not righteousness to outrage

One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments.

It's better to gather in righteousness than fellowship with darkness.

May we be faithful followers of Christ, examples of righteousness, thus becoming lights in the world.

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.

Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?

Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.

It is a shame for anyoneto be well-known for righteousness.It is a great disgrace to feeldistress at the injustice of the turning of the wheels of fate.

...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly...

The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.

If your doctrine changed for the better yet your character changed for the worse, you changed for the worse.

The Kingdom of God is about peace, love, joy and righteousness

For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

There is grace for the unrighteous and the self-righteous alike, and the father loves both sons well.

Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.

Righteousness is the truth revealed and working in you.

Devotion to God, righteousness and wisdom, will keep us safe on earth.

The righteous God promotes the cause of righteousness.

It is better to hide under the shadow of the righteousness of Almighty God than seek refuge in shelter of sins.