Quotes about Righteousness

Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

We're going to have to become very aggressive in addressing justice issues that have to do with fairness and doing that which is equitable and honoring to God.

Doubt is the heart of the matter. Abolish all doubt, and what's left is not faith, but absolute, heartless conviction. You're certain that you possess the Truth -- inevitably offered with an implied uppercase T -- and this certainty quickly devolves into dogmatism and righteousness, by which I mean a demonstrative, overweening pride in being so very right, in short, the arrogance of fundamentalism.

His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room.

When New Testament authors stress that salvation is not arrived at by works, as first-century Jews, these authors are referring to works of the law. They are saying that God's righteousness does not come by external obedience to the law, as some Jews of their day supposed.

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

We do not want to have mercy for the things God has under judgment. We do not want to fall in the ditch on the otherside of unsanctified mercy.

The first time [Christ] came to slay sin in men. The second time He will come to slay men in sin.

Ye shall kindle no fire—not even the fire of righteous indignation.

God's goodness is not a cosmic force but a specific act of compassion. We do not know it as it is but as it happens. To mention an example, "Rabbi Meir said: When a human being suffers what does the Shechinah say? My head is too heavy for Me; My arm is too heavy for Me. And if God is so grieved over the blood of the wicked that is shed, how much more so over the blood of the righteous.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.