Quotes about Righteousness

Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just -- and God is with us.

God does not want you to become a God; he wants you to become godly - taking on his values, attitudes, and character.

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us.

He who spares the wicked injures the good.

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

We lived by that which we held to be good and punished that which we held to be evil. You live by that which you denounce as evil and punish that which you know to be good.

Lord," I had written, "protect my family and me. Forgive me my sins, and help me guard against pride and despair. Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just. And make me an instrument of your will.

Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.

I am losing faith in such a simple thing as despising an enemy with unequivocal righteousness.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.