Quotes about Righteousness
When we do what's right, regardless of circumstances or consequences, we set the table for God to turn the tables. All we need to do is stand up, step in, or step out.
— Mark Batterson
Nothing belongs to us, not even ourselves. But the exchange rate is unbelievable. All of our sin is transferred to Christ's account, and all of His righteousness is transferred to our account. God cancels our debt, writes us into His will, and calls it even!
— Mark Batterson
Goodness is not the absence of badness. You can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right. Those who simply run away from sin are half-Christians. Our calling is much higher than simply running away from what's wrong. We're called to chase lions.
— Mark Batterson
It is only in the context of understanding something of God's character, of his righteousness and perfection, that we begin to understand the tremendous nature of saying that God truly is love, and his love has a depth, texture, fullness, and beauty to it that we, in our present state, can only begin to wonder at.
— Mark Dever
We need to avoid the ditch on the left, where we don't call sin a sin, as well as the ditch on the right, where we are angry culture warriors battling unbelievers instead of evangelizing them.
— Mark Driscoll
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.
— Mark Twain
many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.
— Martin Luther
When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. The righteousness by which a person is justified (declared righteous) is not his own but that of another, Christ.
— Martin Luther
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
— Martin Luther
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.
— Martin Luther
God does not slack his promises because of our sins... or hasten them because of our righteousness and merits. He pays no attention to either.
— Martin Luther
to call a man without the Holy Spirit "upright and God-fearing" is the same as calling Belial "Christ".
— Martin Luther