Quotes about Righteousness
Can you imagine the restaurant host removing his tuxedo coat and offering it to me? Jesus does. We're not talking about an ill-fitting, leftover jacket. He offers a robe of seamless purity and dons my patchwork coat of pride, greed, and selfishness. "He changed places with us" (Gal. 3:13). He wore our sin so we could wear his righteousness.
— Max Lucado
35So do not lose the courage you had in the past, which has a great reward. 36You must hold on, so you can do what God wants and receive what he has promised. 37For in a very short time, "The One who is coming will come and will not be delayed. 38Those who are right with me will live by faith. But if they turn back with fear, I will not be pleased with them.
— Max Lucado
3This is what the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, says: Change your lives and do what is right!
— Max Lucado
You will never go wrong doing what is right.
— Max Lucado
Read this definition of calm: "For the righteous will never be moved; he will be remembered forever. He is not afraid of bad news; his heart is firm, trusting in the LORD. His heart is steady" (Ps. 112:6—8 ESV). According to this verse, where does steadiness originate?
— Max Lucado
God is angry at the evil that ruins his children. The question is not, "How dare a loving God be angry?" but rather, "How could a loving God feel anything less?
— Max Lucado
If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.
— Maya Angelou
See you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing you do it without thinking.
— Maya Angelou
Mother whispered, 'See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing, If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.
— Maya Angelou
Mother whispered, "See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.
— Maya Angelou
Godliness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people. PROVERBS 14:34
— Ben Carson
Lord, please help me to revere Your name. You have promised that, if I do, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings and that I will go out and leap like a calf released from the stall. (Mal. 4:2)
— Beth Moore