Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“One Must Choose Among Both Parties Either To Be A Wise Man That Die To Live In Righteousness And Blissfulness For Eternity… — Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo Copy Share Image
Before Allah nothing of our material existence impresses Allah. It is our righteousness and our uprightness alone that impresses God. — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
“But even if you do suffer for righteousness' sake,you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“When you call someone a sinner, make sure you have no sin in you, and if you say you are without sin,… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Superabundant piety/righteousness (and its practices) is that form of life that enhances the individual and the community simultaneously.” — Michael Joseph Brown Copy Share Image
In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Men and women who sell their birthright for a mess of pottage will tell you that their demise began with something small,… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
“For I am already on the paint of being sacrificed; the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good… — St. Paul Copy Share Image
Satan understands the power of men and women united in righteousness. He is still stinging from his banishment into eternal exile after… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to God is a child… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“Beloved his harp cries out in the night an hour my body does shift, the jerk loves to open me up while… — Adrianna Stepiano Copy Share Image
Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Many Christians still at bottom look upon God as one of the most selfish, self-absorbed Beings in the universe, far more selfish… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
“Look, people need to conform the external reality they face daily with this subjective feeling they likewise experience constantly. To do this… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
“However, I am telling you nothing but the truth when I say it is profitable (good, expedient, advantageous) for you that I… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Have I then no work to work in this great matter of my pardon? None. What work canst thou work? What work… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
Yet, after all, faith is not our righteousness. It is accounted to us in order to righteousness (Rom 4:5, GREEK), but not… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
“Danny would have thought it comical if it had come from any other source, on any other day, in any other country.… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ultimate success of this government and the stability of its institutions, its progress in all that can make a nation honored,… — Jon Lord Copy Share Image
Believing that you are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus and simply receiving the gift of no condemnation gives you the… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
Will we listen to Satan, the author of all lies … ? Or are we going to believe a loving Heavenly Father,… — Richard C. Edgley Copy Share Image
“...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward… — Tara Lain Copy Share Image
It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress… — Al Smith Copy Share Image
Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
“His righteousness rises above the sins of all men; His life is more powerful than all death; His salvation is more unconquerable… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness. — Confucius Copy Share Image
“the paradox is that God must destroy in us, all illusions of righteousness before he can make us righteous” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity. I acknowledge no other God but the one God of truth… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of… — Marcus J. Borg Copy Share Image