Quotes about Righteousness

When all is said and done, the greatest satisfaction you'll have in this life as you grow old will be seeing your children grow in righteousness and faith and goodness as citizens of the society of which they are a part.

In the midst of life we are in death" — how the present moment is all we can call our own for works of mercy, of righteous dealing, and of family tenderness. All very old truths — but what we thought the oldest truth becomes the most startling to us in the week when we have looked on the dead face of one who has made a part of our own lives. For

These things have not changed. The sunlight and shadows bring their old beauty and waken the old heart-strains at morning, noon, and eventide; the little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty; and men still yearn for the reign of peace and righteousness

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.

Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings.

Go beyond what you feel like doing and do what's right. Every time you do what's right when you don't feel like it, you are growing.

The church should not be an assembly of the self-righteous but an assembly of people who admit that they are not righteous apart from God's grace.

Until the end, God's people are to wait patiently and serve diligently. In this life we are to suffer courageously and serve humbly like Jesus did during his incarnation, trusting that all will be made right in due time.