Righteous Quotes

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it.

My righteousness is just as good as Jesus' righteousness, because it IS Jesus' righteousness!

Regret not that which is past; and trust not to thine own righteousness.

Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance.

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

Whoever raises a righteous child, it is as if he did not die.

If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.

Pure Christlike love flowing from true righteousness can change the world.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.

God will begin to prosper you, for money always follows righteousness.

Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.

Who is righteous? Anyone who is repenting. No matter how bad he has been, if he is repenting he is a righteous man. There is hope for him. And no matter how good he has been all his life, if he is not repenting, he is a wicked man. The difference is which way you are facing. The man on the top of the stairs facing down if much worse off than the man on the bottom step who is facing up. The direction we are facing, that is repentance; and that is what determines whether we are good or bad.

So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.

For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.

Happiness is a condition of the soul. This joyous state comes as a result of righteous living.

A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.

The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge.

Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.

Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.