Righteousness Quotes

• My future is righteousness.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Education, Song

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• It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

  Abdul Kalam

  Mean, People, Responsible

  Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (0101). “Enlightened Minds”, p.35, Prabhat Prakashan

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

  John Calvin

  Firsts, Christ, Knows

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Romans”, p.166, Ravenio Books

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• Our works do not generate righteousness, rather our righteousness in Christ generates works.

  Martin Luther

  Christ

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• Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Self, Independence, Lasts

  'Jane Eyre' (2nd ed., 1848) preface

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• True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  "Reading God's Mind: His Thoughts for Every Life Situation". Book by Dottie Eichhorn (p. 171), 2011.

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• A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.

  John Calvin

  Men, Sight, Justified

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.318, Lulu.com

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Thinking, Righteous Living

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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

  Judah Smith

  Jesus, Performances, Depends

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• A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.

  Confucius

  Men, Profound, World

  Analects ch. 4, v. 10 (translation by Wing-Tsit Chan)

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• The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Self, Soul

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• To depend partly upon Christ's righteousness and partly upon our own, is to set one foot upon a. rock and another in the quicksands. Christ will either be to us all in all in point of righteousness, or else nothing at all.

  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

  Rocks, Feet, Christ

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 541, 1895.

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• The time is always right to do what is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.

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• Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.

  Vance Havner

  Men, Christianity

  Vance Havner (2014). “Hearts Afire”, p.96, Solid Christian Books

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• When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Prayer, Reading, Giving

  Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Ever Increasing Faith”, p.119, Lulu.com

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• Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, Surrender, Individual

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.389, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.

  Confucius

  Grief, Moving, Growth

  Confucius (1907). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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

  Brigham Young

  Practice, Wish

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• You can drift into sin, but not into righteousness.

  Leon Morris

  Sin

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• It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Evil, Trying, Sin

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• Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Power, Greatness, Flames

  Misattributed to Tocqueville. "The Tocqueville Fraud" by John Pitney, www.weeklystandard.com. November 12, 1995.

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• Like Muslims we assume that God will judge us "on balance." If our good deeds outweigh our bad deeds, we will arrive safely in heaven. But, alas, if our evil deeds outweigh our good ones, we will suffer the wrath of God in hell. We may be "marred" by sin but in no wise devastated by it. We still have the ability to balance our sins with our own righteousness. This is the most monstrous lie of all.

  R. C. Sproul

  Wise, Lying, Wrath

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

  R. C. Sproul

  Christ, Justify, Sinner

  Twitter post from Mar 04, 2017

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• Righteousness and generosity are inseparable. The person whose heart longs for God also longs to give to others.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Heart, Generosity, Giving

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• Prayer is a great tower of strength, a pillar of unending righteousness, a mighty force that moves mountains and saves souls. Through it the sick are healed, the dead are raised, and the Holy Spirit is poured out without measure upon the faithful.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Prayer, Moving, Sick

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