Quotes about Righteousness

There's only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that's a holy life.

The one encouragement we can always give our children (and one another) is that God is more powerful than our sin, and He's strong enough to make us want to do the right thing.

She had her own opinions on every subject, and kept steadily to them--very tiresome opinions they often were; as she was always thinking of what was right and what was wrong, and had a strange reverence for matters connected with religion, and an unaccountable liking to good people.

The Lord judgeth not as man judgeth; better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ.

The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave. The world has enough women who are popular. It needs more who are pure. We need women, and men, too, who would rather be morally right than socially correct.

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.

How can I be angry and not sin?

For where grace is, there is a remitting, and where remitting is, there is no punishment. Punishment then being removed, and righteousness succeeding from faith, there is no obstacle to our becoming heirs of the promise.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

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

To hunger is to be human, but to hunger for God is to feed on Him. Hunger and thirst after His righteousness and feed on Him in your heart. Taste and see that the Lord is good; it is He who will fill you to satisfaction.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.