Righteousness Quotes - Page 10

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

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Teaching, People, Bases

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

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• Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based upon fear and hope, such morality has always been a vile product, imbued partiy with self-righteousness, partly with hypocrisy.

  Emma Goldman

  Honesty, Self, Justice

  Essay in the Mother Earth Journal, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. February 1916.

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• The purest joy in the world is joy in Christ Jesus.  When the Spirit is poured down, his people get very near and clear views of the Lord Jesus.  They eat his flesh and drink his blood.  They come to a personal cleaving to the Lord.  They taste that the Lord is gracious.  His blood and righteousness appear infinitely perfect, full and free to their soul.  They sit under his shadow with great delight. . . . They lean on the Beloved.  They find infinite strength in him for the use of their soul — grace for grace — all they can need in any hour of trial and suffering to the very end.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Jesus, Views, Blood

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• Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone.

  R. C. Sproul

  Prayer, Crazy, Epidemics

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.72, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness.

  D. A. Carson

  Dirty, Eye, Sins Not

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• So go marry someone, provided you're equally yoked and you actually like being with each other. Go get a job, provided it's not wicked. Go live somewhere in something with somebody or nobody. But put aside the passivity and the quest for complete fulfillment and the perfectionism and the preoccupation with the future, and for God's sake start making some decisions in your life. Don't wait for the liver-shiver. If you are seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, you will be in God's will, so just go out and do something.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jobs, Decision, Waiting

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• The only chains God wants us to wear are the chains of righteousness--not the chains of hopeless subjectivism, not the shackles of risk-free living, not the fetters of horoscope decision making--just the chains befitting a bond servant of Christ Jesus. Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jesus, Self, Decision

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• Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Spiritual, Character

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• May God bless each of us in our calls to serve. May our faith strengthen as we serve in righteousness, faithfully keeping the commandments. May our testimonies ever grow stronger as we seek to find the fountain of eternal truth. May the brotherhood that exists in our quorum be of comfort and strength and security as we pass through this mortal part of our existence. May the joy of gospel service ever abide in our hearts as we go forward to fulfill our duties and responsibilities as servants in our Father in Heaven's kingdom.

  L. Tom Perry

  Father, Responsibility, Heart

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• God has overlooked the times of such ignorance, yet now he is telling mankind that they should all everywhere repent. Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in that he has resurrected him from the dead.

  Paul the Apostle

  Ignorance, Men, Judging

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• Peter's faith had many a shaking, but it was established upon the truth of his God, upon the person and work and righteousness of Jesus Christ.

  E. W. Bullinger

  Jesus, Christ, Peter

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• Women should be women and not babies that need petting and correction all the time. I know we like to be appreciated but if we do not get all the appreciation which we think is our due, what matters? We know the Lord has laid high responsibility upon us, and there is not a wish or desire that the Lord has implanted in our hearts in righteousness but will be realized, and the greatest good we can do to ourselves and each other is to refine and cultivate ourselves in everything that is good and ennobling to qualify us for those responsibilities.

  Eliza R. Snow

  Baby, Appreciation, Heart

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• Now whether you like it or not, whether you want to admit it or not, whether you want to operate on it or not, you are made the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ. Most people who go to denominational churches never ever hear that! They never hear it! Never! All I was ever taught to say was, 'I'm a poor, miserable sinner.' I am not poor, I am not miserable and I am not a sinner. That is a lie from the pit of hell. That is what I was and if I still am then Jesus died in vain. Amen?

  Joyce Meyer

  Jesus, Lying, People

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• The Holy Spirit never convicts (Christians) of your sins. He never comes to point out your faults…. It does not take a revelation from the Holy Spirit to see that you have failed. However, when you know that you’ve failed what you do need is for the Holy Spirit to convict you of your righteousness.

  Joseph Prince

  Christian, Faults, Doe

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• Our lifestyle, language, attitudes, and manner of dress reflect on His name. He leads us in paths of righteousness for His name's sake. Unless you are honestly convinced that the thing in question will bring glory to God, then don't do it.

  Curtis Hutson

  Attitude, Names, Dresses

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• The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free.

  Joseph Conrad

  Philosophical, Ideas, Optimism

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “A Personal Record”, p.9, Booklassic

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• Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Majestic, Eternal

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• There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.

  Mary Catherwood

  Thinking, Terrible, Committed

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1901). “Lazarre”

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• It is impossible to draw near to God without sorrows, without which human righteousness cannot remain unchanged... If you desire virtue, than give yourself to every affliction, for afflictions produce humility. If someone abides in virtue without afflictions, the door of pride is opened to him.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

  Johann Arndt

  Men, Naked, Miserable

  Johann Arndt (1868). “True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc”, p.52

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• The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature, whereas the state merely restrains human greed and evil, having no positive power to alter human motivation.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Motivation, Law, Evil

  Alister E. McGrath (2012). “Reformation Thought: An Introduction”, p.217, John Wiley & Sons

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• At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness. The way to progress as a Christian is to continually repent and uproot these systems the same way we become Christians, namely by the vivid depiction (and re-depiction) of Christ’s saving work for us, and the abandoning of self-trusting efforts to complete ourselves. We must go back again and again to the gospel of Christ-crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what he did and who we are in him.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Heart, Reality

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• Christ came to give us a justifying righteousness, and He also came to make us holy — not chiefly for the purpose of evidencing here our possession of a justifying righteousness — but for the purpose of forming and fitting us for a blessed eternity.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Blessed, Giving, Purpose

  William Hanna, Thomas Chalmers (1850). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. LL.D.”, p.184

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• It is an important part of our life’s experience to develop the strength, courage, and integrity to hold fast to truth and righteousness despite the buffeting we may experience.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Integrity, Important, May

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• The needed change within us is God's work, not ours. The demand is for an inside job, and only God can work from the inside. We cannot attain or earn this righteousness of the kingdom of God: it is a grace that is given.

  Richard J. Foster

  Jobs, Grace, Demand

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.6, Harper Collins

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