Righteousness Quotes - Page 2

You can drift into sin, but not into righteousness.

It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.

A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

One thing, and only one thing, is necessary for Christian life, righteousness, and freedom. That one thing is the most holy Word of God, the gospel of Christ.

There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.

God knows it is emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that righteousness that nourishes itself on the blood of sinners. But God also knows that what is emotionally satisfying can be spiritually devastating.

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

Righteousness exalteth a nation.

It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness.