Quotes about Righteousness

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

Jesus proclaimed unmistakably that God's law is so perfect and absolute that no one can achieve righteousness. Yet God's grace is so great that we do not have to.

So we strap on weapons that work—weapons divinely authorized for our success in spiritual warfare: the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of peace. Then we take up the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, as well as the sword—the very Word of God. But

Righteousness is like a weapon. It deflects the enemy's attacks and positions you, God's warrior, for victory.

Righteousnessis like the train that travels on the track. If not for the rails, the train wouldn't have anything to run on.

God (Isa. 59:1—2).

Stand firm therefore . . . having put on the breastplate of righteousness.—Ephesians 6:14 nasb

Many believers use truth as a license to righteously diminish others' reputations.

Good societies can survive people doing immoral things. But a good society can not survive if it calls immoral things moral.