Quotes about Righteousness
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the raising and exaltation of Christ, God has chosen the one whom the moral and political powers of this world rejected — the poor, humiliated, suffering and forsaken Christ. God identified himself with him and made him Lord of the new world ….. The God who creates justice for those who suffer violence, the God who exalts the humiliated and executed Christ — that is the God of hope for the new world of righteousness and justice and peace.
— Jurgen Moltmann
Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.
— Clement of Alexandria
Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.
— Horatius Bonar
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.
— John Calvin
Lord, give me the wisdom to know what's right and the courage to do what's right-even when it's hard.
— Andy Stanley
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
— CS Lewis
The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.
— Dallas Willard
To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.
— Confucius
It's better to gather in righteousness than fellowship with darkness.
— Bishop TD Jakes
There's nothing spectacular about Prophet T.B Joshua. He is just like every other human being. But if there is any difference, it is the grace of God; the righteousness of God. It is a product of the grace of God. So, I am a product of the grace of God.
— TB Joshua