Righteousness Quotes - Page 5

• A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness - incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Doctors, Self, People

  "Ruminator" Magazine, August/September 2005.

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• There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

  Eric Hoffer

  Integrity, Humility, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• * Recognize that God is with you. * Acknowledge God knows what He's doing. * Search for God's will: the path He desires you to take in life. * Consider what God did for you when He sent Jesus to die on the cross (forgiveness and righteousness)

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Meditation, Desire

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• Christ has given us the most glorious interpretation of life's meaning that man has ever had. The fatherhood of God, the fellowship of the Spirit, the sovereignty of righteousness, the law of love, the glory of service, the coming of the Kingdom, the eternal hope- there was never an interpretation of life to compare with that.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Men, Law, Fatherhood

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• Let righteousness cover the earth like the water cover the sea!

  Bob Marley

  Sea, Water, Rasta

  Bob Marley (2012). “The Future Is the Beginning: The Words and Wisdom of Bob Marley”, p.93, Crown Archetype

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• For godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce Himself in you; not self-righteousness, but Christ-righteousness; the righteousness which is by faith

  W. Ian Thomas

  Self, Christ, Capacity

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• Grant us a common faith that we shall know bread and peace-that we shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and security, an equal opportunity and an equal chance to do our best not only in our own lands, but throughout the world. And in that faith let us march toward the clean world our hands can make.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Faith, Opportunity, Hands

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• Faith can cut in so many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and help us reach for something higher than ourselves. That can be a powerful thing, a thing that moves us beyond politics as usual, like Martin Luther King did. But when it's designed to certify our righteousness - that can be a dangerous thing. Then it pushes self criticism aside. There's no reflection.

  Jim Wallis

  Kings, Powerful, Moving

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• People who think of God as a warrior may become warriors themselves, whether in a Christian crusade, a Muslim jihad, or an apocalyptically oriented militia. People who think of God as righteous are likely to emphasize righteousness themselves, just as those who think of God as compassionate are likely to emphasize compassion. People who think God is angry at the world are likely to be angry at the world themselves.

  Marcus Borg

  Christian, Warrior, Thinking

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• One thing, and only one thing, is necessary for Christian life, righteousness, and freedom. That one thing is the most holy Word of God, the gospel of Christ.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Holy, Word Of God

  Martin Luther (2011). “Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing”, p.54, Anchor

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• People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or in computers and clipboards, or in absoluteness, severity, greed, and cynicism. But the peacemaker is dressed in righteousness, justice, and faithfulness - dressed for the work that is to be done.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Love, Faith, Peace

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• People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.

  Tana French

  Self, People, Giving

  "In the Woods". Book by Tana French, 2008.

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• We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.

  R. C. Sproul

  Faces, Christ, Mask

  Twitter post from Feb 12, 2016

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• Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet in part because righteousness was always supposed to accompany it. Pure Christlike love flowing from true righteousness can change the world.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Love Is, Needs, World

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• To some, the temporal triumph of the Christian community in the world is a sign of God's favor and the essential righteousness of the Christian position. The irony of the matter, though, is that whenever the Christian community gains worldly power, it nearly always loses its capacity to be the critic of the power and influence it so readily brokers.

  Peter J. Gomes

  Christian, Community, Triumph

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• Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least offended with those who mock at or oppose you, for they do you good; crucify your self-love and acknowledge the wrong, the error of your heart. But have the deepest pity for those who mock at words and works of faith and piety, of righteousness; for those who oppose the good which you are doing... God preserve you - getting exasperated at them.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Passion, Heart

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• We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to provoke the violent, and in this way bring about the conflict for which we, too, like other men, are hungering in secret, and with suppressed barbarity.

  Thomas Merton

  Ignorance, Men, Justice

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• I pledged to work for righteousness. God's given me inspiration. God's the boss, he tell me what to do.

  Bob Marley

  Inspiration, Boss, Given

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• Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

  Eric Hoffer

  Humility, Self, Voice

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Hate, People, Miserable

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• Because of his sinless life, Jesus walked in perfect dominion. God did whatever he asked, NOT because he was God's son, but because he held the position of a righteous man. But that was Jesus, you say. But the Bible says that through our believing on Him, we have been given the same position of righteousness with God that Jesus has.

  Kenneth Copeland

  Jesus, Believe, Son

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• When the Holy Spirit comes to live within you, He will come with the ability to produce righteousness. Righteousness is the nature of God, which when imparted to the human spirit, produces the rightness of God in the human spirit. It gives man right standing with God; it gives him the ability to stand in the presence of God without a sense of guilt, inferiority or condemnation. It means rightness in God. The righteousness of God is wrought in you.

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Mean, Men, Giving

  Chris Oyakhilome PhD. (2014). “Seven Things The Holy Spirit Will Do For You”, p.26, LoveWorld Publishing

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• Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Redemption, Firsts, Redeemed

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jan 19, 2014

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• If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally _all_ things. He will see to it that they are added unto us. If we follow Jesus and look only to His righteousness, we are in his hands and under the protection of Him and His Father. And if we are in communion with the Father, nought can harm us. God will help us in the hour of need, and He knows our needs.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Father, Hands

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• Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Not only do the followers of Jesus renounce their rights, they renounce their own righteousness too. They get no praise for their achievements or sacrifices. They cannot have righteous– ness except by hungering and thirsting for it (this applies equally to their own righteousness and to the righteousness of God on earth ), always they look forward to the future righteousness of God, but they cannot establish it for themselves. Those who follow Jesus grow hungry and thirsty on the way.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Blessed, Sacrifice

  "The Cost of Discipleship".

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