We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
Our works do not generate righteousness, rather our righteousness in Christ generates works.
My future is righteousness.
Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge.
It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance.
The time is always right to do what is right.
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness
If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.
You can drift into sin, but not into righteousness.
The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.
The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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.
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.
We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent.
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.
When Christ entered into Jerusalem the people spread garments in the way: when He enters into our hearts, we pull off our own righteousness, and not only lay it under Christ's feet but even trample upon it ourselves.
The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.
Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.
The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.
Self-righteousness exclaims, "I will not be saved in God's way; I will make a new road to heaven; I will not bow before God's grace; I will not accept the atonement which God has wrought out in the person of Jesus; I will be my own redeemer; I will enter heaven by my own strength, and glorify my own merits." The Lord is very wroth against self-righteousness. I do not know of anything against which His fury burneth more than against this, because this touches Him in a very tender point, it insults the glory and honor of His Son Jesus Christ.
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