Righteousness Quotes - Page 16

• But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

  Herbert Butterfield

  Self, Civilization, Giving

  Herbert Butterfield (1953). “Christianity, Diplomacy and War”, London : Epworth Press

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• For Paul 'righteousness' and 'justice' are the same word, as they were in Hebrew. Paul clearly believes that helping the poor is a central and ongoing part of Christian commitment, precisely because in Jesus Christ God has unveiled and launched his plan for the rescue, redemption and renewal of the whole creation. Justification and justice go very closely together.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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• No "natural" resource is more precious and to be used more wisely than time. These mortal moments matter more than we know. There are no idle hours; there are only idle people. In true righteousness there is serenity, but there is an array of reminders that the "sacred present" is packed with possibilities which are slipping by us, which are going away from us each moment.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  People, Serenity, Balance

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• Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Simple, Self, Fruit

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.804, Library of America

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• Will we listen to Satan, the author of all lies … ? Or are we going to believe a loving Heavenly Father, who is the source of all truth and happiness?

  Richard C. Edgley

  Father, Lying, Believe

  "Satan’s Bag of Snipes". Richard C. Edgley's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October, 2000.

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• But the LORD Almighty will be exalted by his justice, and the holy God will show himself holy by his righteousness.

  Isaiah

  Justice, Lord, Holy

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• When the great Tao is abandoned, benevolence and righteousness arise.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Abandoned, Arise

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• It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient.

  Felix Adler

  Men, Enlightened, Theory

  Felix Adler (1904). “New statement of the aim of the ethical culture societies”

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• What does rasta mean? Righteousness.

  Bob Marley

  Mean, Rasta, Doe

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• Sometimes I think of Abraham
  How one star he saw had been lit for me
  He was a stranger in this land
  And I am that, no less than he
  And on this road to righteousness
  Sometimes the climb can be so steep
  I may falter in my steps
  But never beyond your reach

  Rich Mullins

  Stars, Thinking, Land

  Song: Sometimes By Steps

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• The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Honesty, Men, Community

  "The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses" by Theodore Roosevelt. "The Eighth and Ninth Commandments in Politics", 1910.

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• Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit.

  Robert Barclay

  Jesus, Heart, Fruits Of The Spirit

  Robert Barclay (1850). “An Apology for the Christian Divinity: As the Sameis Held Forth and Preached by the People Called, in Scorm Quakers, Being a Full Explanation and Vindication of Their Principles and Doctrines”, p.110

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• How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God's providence and love and express that gratitude to him. Ammon taught, 'Let us give thanks to (God), for he doth work righteousness forever.' Our degree of gratitude is a measure of our love for him.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Gratitude, Giving, Forever

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

  Elsa Maxwell

  Singers, Psalms, Congregation

  Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's own story”

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• Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ.

  Thomas Brooks

  Humble, Men, Mourning

  Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.12

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• A church that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood, a church that does not exist to take the side of the poor, to denounce injustice and to hold up righteousness, is a church that has no right to be. Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for Himself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Fighting, Errors, Evil

  C. H. Spurgeon (2004). “Spurgeon's Sermons on the Death and Resurrection of Jesus”, p.294, Hendrickson Publishers

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• I am going to give you such a weapon that the police and the army will not be able to stand against it. It is the weapon of the Prophet, but you are not aware of it. That weapon is patience and righteousness. No power on earth can stand against it.

  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

  Army, Giving, Police

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• Indeed all the saints are taught the same lesson - to renounce their own strength, and rely on the power of God; their own policy, and cast themselves on the wisdom of God; their own righteousness, and expect all from the pure mercy of God in Christ, which act of faith is so pleasing to God, that such a soul shall never be ashamed.

  William Gurnall

  Mercy Of God, Soul, Saint

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.30

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• When a pastor continually makes light of the character of our Lord by speaking in scatological tones about the Son of Man's bodily functions in incarnation or wearing T-Shirts that rather mock the King of Righteousness rather than glorify Him, then something is terribly awry.

  Steve Camp

  Kings, Character, Son

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• Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done by a nonbeliever. And here is my second challenge. Can any reader think of a wicked statement made, or an evil action performed, precisely because of religious faith? The second question is easy to answer, is it not? The first - I have been asking it for some time - awaits a convincing reply. By what right, then, do the faithful assume this irritating mantle of righteousness? They have as much to apologize for as to explain.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Faith, Religious, Thinking

  "An Atheist Responds" by Christopher Hitchens, www.washingtonpost.com. July 14, 2007.

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• I have one great political idea... That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is very generally trampled upon and disregarded. The best expression of it, I have found in the Bible. It is in substance, "Righteousness exalteth a nation - sin is a reproach to any people." This constitutes my politics, the negative and positive of my politics, and the whole of my politics... I feel it my duty to do all in my power to infuse this idea into the public mind, that it may speedily be recognized and practiced upon by our people.

  Frederick Douglass

  Expression, Ideas, People

  Frederick Douglass' Speech Delivered At The Mass Free Democratic Convention At Ithaca, New York, history.furman.edu. October 14, 1852.

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• Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this reason I could wish that the dance of death were painted on the walls of all ball-rooms in order to warn the dancers, not by the levity of their deportment, to provoke the God of righteousness to visit them with a sudden judgment.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Wall, Order, Dancing

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• I live in a country where we put children in shackles and in concrete cells. Working together, with righteousness and hope, we can create a country that is about reverence and reconciliation, not a world of shackles and concrete cells.

  Lateefah Simon

  Country, Children, Cells

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• My righteousness is just as good as Jesus' righteousness, because it IS Jesus' righteousness!

  E. W. Kenyon

  Jesus, Godly

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• It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation. He does not want to be holy; he only wants to seem to be holy. He is more concerned with his reputation for righteousness than about actually becoming righteous. The approbation of men matters more to him than the approval of God.

  Saint Augustine

  Motivation, Hypocrite, Men

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