Righteousness Quotes

582 Righteousness quotes by 377 unique authors

One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness. — Ezra Taft Benson
You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible! — Ezra Taft Benson
It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels… — Ezra Taft Benson
Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that… — Tony Campolo
But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness… — Donald Cargill
I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from… — Donald Cargill
Most soulish believers assume an attitude of self-righteousness, though often it is scarcely detectable. They hold tenaciously to their minute opinions we ought to lay… — Watchman Nee
Righteousness has never precluded adversity. — M. Russell Ballard
Though a man may be found in a weak state, that does not at all mean that he has been abandoned by God. On the… — John of Shanghai and San Francisco
A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent in his breast. If he… — Symeon the New Theologian
Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, even persecutors, the worst of sinners: his righteousness is sufficient for them; his Spirit is able… — George Whitefield
One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while adhering to the… — Imagawa Sadayo
When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal… — Smith Wigglesworth
When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be… — Sun Tzu
Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart. — Ezra Taft Benson
The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage. — Confucius
By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons!… — Frederic Farrar
"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness — Aeschylus
For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes… — Martin Luther
I have met many, many farm workers and friends who love justice and who are willing to sacrifice for what is right. They have a… — Cesar Chavez
the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship (angels). Behind the harsh… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and devotion can be… — Elihu Root
Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not… — Mencius
Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to an individual, a… — Arthur W. Pink
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion… — John Owen

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