Righteousness Quotes - Page 3

To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

Your fellowship with God never came because of your righteousness. So how could your own righteousness maintain it?

Faith is a gift of God bestowed as a reward for personal righteousness.

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

When you get so tired that you realize you cannot generate righteousness, come on back and I'll tell you about a gift.

Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.

Do people get moral when they don't get ahead?

I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.

Before Allah nothing of our material existence impresses Allah. It is our righteousness and our uprightness alone that impresses God.

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.

It is not righteousness to outrage

The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough; it is the very spirit of unsparing truth.

The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.

Righteousness has never precluded adversity.

...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.

Unless we ardently and prayerfully devote ourselves to Christ's righteousness we do not only faithlessly revolt from our Creator, but we also abjure him as our Savior.

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner.

Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living.

In the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we have people who pretend that they can, but it simply isn't true.

My trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness.

God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.