Quotes about Righteousness

Excerpt from Leaving Things Alone) You train your eye and your vision lusts after colour. You train your ear, and you long for delightful sound. You delight in doing good, and your natural kindness is blown out of shape. You delight in righteousness, and you become righteous beyond all reason.

shalom really means God's perfection. Shalom encompasses all the characteristics of God—His righteousness, His justice, His unfailing love, His forgiveness, His holiness, and yes, His peace as well. Shalom is everything that is inherent in the one God and everything He planned for those He created.

No one was innocent in the sight of God anyway. Now imagine the cannibalism, rape, murder, child sacrifice, and so on. Yet God was patient. He gave a 120-year countdown to the Flood (Genesis 6:313) and even sent a preacher of righteousness (2 Peter 2:514).

There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

there is already wrapped up a judging-process, at least for believers: the raising act in their case, together with the attending change, plainly involves a pronouncement of vindication.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Human nature, if it healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.

The hoary beard is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

God is always at war with sin.