Quotes about Righteousness
I'm talking about influence that God wants to give us. I'm talking about opportunities. I'm talking about walking in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. I'm talking about stepping out in obedience. I'm talking about prayer and action. If our hearts are wide open in faith, then God is wide open to us.
— Louie Giglio
Plant what is right. Then you will harvest good things." —HOSEA 10:12 ICB
— Louie Giglio
The Puritans, then, were not afraid to use the law of God as an instrument of evangelism. When God is about to play the chord of grace in the soul, they taught, he usually starts with the bass note of the law. In order for man to come to Christ, he must first come to an end of his own righteousness. "They held [that] the index of the soundness of a man's faith in Christ is the genuineness of the self-despair from which it springs," says Packer.
— Joel Beeke
When we seek to correct the wrong done to us, we set ourselves up as a judge.
— John Bevere
It is righteous for God to avenge his servants. It is unrighteous for God's servants to avenge themselves..
— John Bevere
Most are deceived by and drawn to behavior and things that seem right, good, and wise but are contrary to His wisdom.
— John Bevere
No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly" (Psalm 84:11).
— John Bevere
There is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of.
— John Bunyan
Wake up, see your own wretchedness, and fly to the Lord Jesus. He is the righteousness of God, for He Himself is God. Only by believing in His righteousness will you be delivered from condemnation.
— John Bunyan
it was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor yet my bad frame that made my righteousness worse; for my righteousness was Jesus Christ Himself, the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever
— John Bunyan
The hill, though high, I covet to ascend; The difficulty will not me offend, For I perceive the way to life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart, let's neither faint nor fear. Better, though difficult, the right way to go, Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.
— John Bunyan
God have mercy on a sinner like me and enable me to know and believe in Jesus Christ. For I understand that if the righteousness of Christ was not available or if I didn't have faith in that righteousness, then I would be utterly rejected from your presence. Lord, I've heard that you're a merciful God and have ordained that your Son, Jesus Christ, should be the Savior of the world.
— John Bunyan