Righteousness Quotes - Page 19

• While a lot of people want to join the left to react against the mainstream or right, I in many ways react against the left - not a lot of its fundamental commitments, but its often dismal tone, righteousness, defeatism, etc.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Commitment, People, Fundamentals

  Source: therumpus.net

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.

  Edgar Cayce

  Trying, Success Or Failure

  18 Copy quote

• My will shall be done regardless of the flaws in thy life, if ye count upon the power of My righteousness. I do not work only in cases where there are no obstacles; but I glory in over-ruling the prevailing circumstances, and I take pleasure in bringing victories in those places where no victory is anywhere in sight.

  Frances J Roberts

  Sight, Victory, Done

  Frances J. Roberts (1973). “Come Away My Beloved”

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope of bringing about a Millennium, we busily teach to the heathen, we Christians ourselves disregard.

  Herman Melville

  Christian, War, Men

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war”, p.378

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To whom much is given, much is required. Righteousness exalts a nation...but sin is a reproach to any people

  Jonathan Cahn

  People, Sin, Given

  Jonathan Cahn (2012). “The Harbinger”, p.20, Charisma Media

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The discovery of the Square was a great event to the primitive mystics of the Nile. Very early it became an emblem of truth, justice, and righteousness, and it remains to this day through unaccountable ages have passed.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Squares, Discovery, Justice

  16 Copy quote

• The righteousness of men should be treated with the same respect that one would accord to a rattlesnake. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, Should, Rattlesnakes

  4 Copy quote

• Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Sin, Satan

  6 Copy quote

• There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.

  John Bunyan

  Men, Way, Consent

  John Bunyan, George Offor (1862). “The Whole Works of John Bunyan: Accurately Reprinted from the Authors Own Editions ; Wth Editorial Prefaces, Notes, and Life of Bunyan”, p.721

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• God knows it is emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that righteousness that nourishes itself on the blood of sinners. But God also knows that what is emotionally satisfying can be spiritually devastating.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Blood, God Knows, Satisfying

  William Sloane Coffin (2008). “The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years”, p.499, Westminster John Knox Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Adventure, Goodness, Pursuit

  Eugene H. Peterson (2009). “Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best”, p.14, InterVarsity Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

  Bertrand Russell

  Self, Born, Self Righteousness

  Bertrand Russell (2007). “Justice in War-time”, p.192, Cosimo, Inc.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. And this is how that suffering happens-if we love someone, but do not love God, we demand total perfection and righteousness from that person, and when we do not get it, we become cruel and vindictive; yet we are demanding of a human being which he or she cannot possibly give.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Religious, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.425, Discovery House

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Regardless of gender, marital status, or age, individuals can choose to link themselves directly to the Savior, hold fast to the rod of His truth, and lead by the light of that truth. By so doing, they become examples of righteousness to whom others will want to cling.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Light, Age, Example

  7 Copy quote

• Young men, I challenge you to build your lives on a foundation of truth and righteousness. It is the only foundation that will stand the pressures of this life and endure through the eternities. The priesthood you bear is a special gift, for the giver is the Lord Himself. Use it, magnify it, and live worthy of it. I want you to know that I have a special and personal testimony of its power. It has blessed my life in so many ways.

  L. Tom Perry

  Blessed, Men, Challenges

  5 Copy quote

• For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity. I acknowledge no other God but the one God of truth and righteousness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Rama, Deities

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• God's righteousness and His unchangeable law make Christianity a stumbling block for many. Organizations and individuals carry a political and moral agenda that aims to remove all obstacles to their sin. Their goal is to 'break God's bands asunder and cast away His cords.' They counsel together to rid themselves of the law of God; anyone who preaches the gospel or stands for righteousness stands in the way of their agenda.

  Carman

  Christian, Religious, Block

  Carman Walker, Carman, Walter Walker (1994). “Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God”, Chordant Distribution

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp.

  Joe Klein

  Baby, War, Past

  "Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense" by Joe Klein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To bring the worst of the worst terrorists inside the United States would be cause for great danger and regret in the years to come. It is recklessness cloaked in righteousness, and would make the American people less safe.

  Dick Cheney

  Opportunity, People, Leader

  "Obama, Cheney: Different Views On Protecting U.S". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 22, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Should pain and suffering, sorrow, and grief, rise up like clouds and overshadow for a time the Sun of Righteousness and hide Him from your view, do not be dismayed, for in the end this cloud of woe will descend in showers of blessing on your head, and the Sun of Righteousness rise upon you to set no more forever.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Christian, Pain, Grief

  57 Copy quote

• A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty. The realization ought to clear the smog of self-righteousness that has always conventionally hovered over these occasions, and let us see the work that is to be done.

  Wendell Berry

  Self, Issues, Abuse

  15 Copy quote

• God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on my own. His righteousness.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

  34 Copy quote

• most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

  Vera Brittain

  Self, Self Righteous, Righteous

  12 Copy quote

• Those who hope for purity and righteousness always try and destroy that which disturbs them. They think the disturbance comes from outside themselves. This is a serious problem. Wars, suicide bombings, and all sorts of other nasty things start from the premise that we can destroy 'evil' outside ourselves without dealing with the evil within.

  Brad Warner

  Suicide, Hope, War

  Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.89, New World Library

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Scripture is profitable for training in righteousness. No one succeeds at the highest level in sports without working out. No one makes it in music without lots of practice. No one excels in scholarship without years of study. And no one makes it far in the school of holiness without hours and days and years in the word. You and I simply will not mature as quickly, minister as effectively, or live as gloriously without immersing ourselves in the Scriptures. We need the Bible if we are to be competent Christians.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Sports, School

  9 Copy quote