Righteous Quotes - Page 3

A righteous person is one who lives for the next generation.

Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed.

There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

Beware of people whose halos are on too tight.

Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic.

God is righteous in making the sinner righteous.

The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.

There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.

There are multitudes of pure and holy spirits waiting to take tabernacles, now what is our duty. To prepare tabernacles for them; to take a course that will not tend to drive those spirits into families of the wicked, where they will be trained in wickedness, debauchery, and every species of crime. It is the duty of every righteous man and woman to prepare tabernacles for all the spirits they can. This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits which are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth.

Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.

To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.

The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.

Time is the best preserver of righteous men.

In the case of man, righteousness is adjustment to God, and an articulation with man based upon that adjustment. Are you a righteous man? Am I a righteous man? Are you righteous? Then, if so, wherein does your righteousness consist? That your whole life is adjusted to God, and is moulded by that adjustment. This is righteousness.

To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none.

There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.