Quotes about Righteousness

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

James 5:16 - The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with.

That is Jeremiah's accusation: "You have found a safe place, haven't you! This nice, clean temple. You spend all week out in the world doing what you want to do, taking advantage of others, exploiting the weak, cursing the person who isn't pliable to your plans, and then you repair to this place where everything is in order and protected and right.

I called you to live at your best, to pursue righteousness, to sustain a drive toward excellence.

Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance.

Christian discipleship is a process of paying more and more attention to God's righteousness and less and less attention to our own; finding the meaning of our lives not by probing our moods and motives and morals but by believing in God's will and purposes; making a map of the faithfulness of God, not charting the rise and fall of our enthusiasms. It is out of such a reality that we acquire perseverance.

I am GOD, your God, who teaches you how to live right and well. I show you what to do, where to go.

I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not "mine," but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.—Galatians 2:20

Abraham entered into what God was doing for him, and that was the turning point. He trusted God to set him right instead of trying to be right on his own. Romans 4:3

Oh ! the blessed confessors of the kingdom of Christ, who were tried like gold in the excellence of their righteousness, and obtained through the conflict in which they were set the heavenly life of angels, and laid hold upon the promises of the hidden good things of the victory of the high calling--For eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what God has prepared for them that love him.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!