With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Do you believe in the truth? Do you believe in righteousness? Do you believe in innocent till proven guilty? — Lucky Dube Copy Share Image
In the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws. — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Lord, help me not to wallow in the bitterness of hearing the truth, but to joyfully strive to walk in the beauty… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
No wonder if such persons look upon imputed righteousness as the shadow of a dream, who esteem those things which evidence its… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor.… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
To be a righteous woman during the winding up scenes on this earth, before the second coming of our Savior, is an… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Where much is given, much is required. Our Heavenly Father asks His daughters to walk in virtue, to live in righteousness so… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
No "natural" resource is more precious and to be used more wisely than time. These mortal moments matter more than we know.… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
There is neither man or woman in this Church who is not on a mission. That mission will last as long as… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Godliness has 'promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.' But the only way one can… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is no peace in South Africa. There is no peace because there is no justice. There can be no real peace… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Concluding a short series on sin: It is appalling to think of a power so strong that it can annihilate with the… — Charles Brent Copy Share Image
“Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“I once was a stranger to grace and to God, I knew not my danger, and felt not my load; Though friends… — Robert Murray McCheyne Copy Share Image
We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
“We are apt to overshoot, in the days that are calm, and to think ourselves far higher, and more strong than we… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Self-complacency leads to self-righteousness. Let us realize that we are all sinners, and ask God for forgiveness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At all times we must be on guard not to misrepresent God's message to acquire what we want from others.With a heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Obedience insures greatness, whilst disobedience leads to a repulse. Whosoever possesseth the qualities of righteousness placeth his head on the threshold of… — Saadi Copy Share Image
We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Saviour, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
“For many of us, justice is something that is static, idealistic, and codified. In contrast, mishpat is dynamic, realistic, and creative.” — Jessica Nicholas Copy Share Image
Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power. — Kevin W. Pearson Copy Share Image
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Whatever in Christ had the nature of satisfaction, was by virtue of the suffering or humiliation that was in it; but whatever… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
You are not doing service for others. You are doing it always for yourselves, to the God in you, the God who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Righteousness has to do with the vertical standard that God gives us to please Him. Justice has to do with the horizontal… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
“Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to an individual, a principle of holiness is imparted to him; the former can only… — Lance Colkmire Copy Share Image
Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair. — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“God’s righteousness is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: “ The righteous will live by faith.” Romans 1:17” — Beth Moore Copy Share Image