Righteousness Quotes

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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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• My future is righteousness.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Education, Song

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

  Martin Luther

  Christ

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Christ, Damn

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 7: Sermons 348-426”, p.389, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Death, Black And White, Two

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

  Judah Smith

  Jesus, Performances, Depends

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Ifs

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

  Leon Morris

  Sin

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

  Smith Wigglesworth

  World, Hunger And Thirst, Hunger

  Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Ever Increasing Faith”, p.3, Lulu.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 saints are sinners still. Our best tears need to be wept over, the strongest faith is mixed with unbelief, our most flaming love is cold compared with what Jesus deserves, and our intensest zeal still lacks the full fervor which the bleeding wounds and pierced heart of the crucified might claim at our hands. Our best things need a sin offering, or they would condemn us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Heart, Love Is

  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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• Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.

  Thomas Adams

  Thinking, Self, Devil

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