Quotes about Righteousness

Sometimes what's holding us back is that we don't really know who we are. We think we're average, just ordinary, when in fact we are royalty. We are sons and daughters of the Most High God. When God breathed His life into you, He crowned you with His favor. He put a robe of righteousness on you. He says, "You have been fearfully and wonderfully made." Don't go through life with a cheese-and-crackers mentality. Have a son mentality, an abundant mentality.

An important mark of saving faith, then, is that a convert not only wants to be delivered from the corruption of sin, but that he also hungers and thirsts after righteousness and holiness.

To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.

One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.

Real faith invariably produces holiness of heart and righteousness of life.

One thing, and only one thing, is necessary for Christian life, righteousness, and freedom. That one thing is the most holy Word of God, the gospel of Christ.

When the church protects the powerful at the expense of the victim, we have compromised. And in the end, these compromises add up and convince the world that the church is not a community for the broken in search of healing but just another human institution that puts expediency above righteousness and justice.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.And, behold, I come quickly.

And he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

When he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple.