Quotes about Righteousness
Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
— William James
The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.
— RC Sproul
God's wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.
— JI Packer
It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.
— CS Lewis
When you are committed to doing what's right, you are sowing seeds for God's blessings. You will never go wrong by taking the high road and doing more that is required.
— Joel Osteen
The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.
— George Whitefield
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.
— Soren Kierkegaard
In the person of Christ God beholds a holiness which abides His closest scrutiny, yea, which rejoices and satisfies His heart; and whatever Christ is before God, He is for His people.
— AW Pink
I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.
— John Wooden
God is righteous in making the sinner righteous.
— Joseph Prince
The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.
— Maya Angelou
A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God.
— JC Ryle