Quotes about Righteousness

The truth is, righteous anger is the right response to sin and far more consistent with God's character than faking happiness, approval, or acceptance.

The man who does not enjoy doing noble actions is not a good man at all.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

It's every man's business to see justice done.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

Honesty is doing what you know or believe is right. Integrity is doing what is right and truthful.

I did everything that might be expected from a person entirely ignorant of God's righteousness who works to build his own self-righteousness.

We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

O, the lessons here for us! Name your discouraging setback—personal, political, scholarly, ecclesiastical, cultural, global. Dare any Christian say that God is not in this for the good of his people and the glory of his name? Not if our God is the God of Ezra! Do you think these setbacks are not without some great purpose of righteousness bigger and more stunning than any of us can imagine?

The supremacy of God in all things is the great reward we long for in fasting. His supremacy in our own affections and in all our life-choices. His supremacy in the purity of the church. His supremacy in the salvation of the lost. His supremacy in the establishing of righteousness and justice. And his supremacy for the joy of all peoples in the evangelization of the world.

It would seem more appropriate to say that we are debtors to God's justice, not to his grace.

when Paul says in Romans 4:3, 5, 9, and 22 that 'faith is counted as righteousness,' he does not mean that our faith is our righteousness. He means that our faith unites us to Christ so that God's righteousness in Christ is reckoned to us.