Righteousness Quotes - Page 20

• When you get honest with God, you can exchange the fig leaves you used to cover your sin with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Jesus

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• You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and self-abuse and self-aggrandizement and self-deception and pompousness and self-righteousness and cruelty and indifference beyond what any other species has demonstrated the capacity for, which is the capacity for all the above.

  John Irving

  Writing, Self, Stupidity

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• I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Christian, Prayer, Philosophy

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). “Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections”, p.6

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• Assess the work of whatever others do to you or say about you, and cultivate fortitude and the understanding to appreciate their behaviour and pardon their faults. This capacity is as invaluable as truth, righteousness, wisdom, non-violence, renunciation, delight and compassion. It is all that one need possess for spiritual advancement.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Compassion, Appreciate

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• The enumeration of human values as five - Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-violence is not correct. They are all facets of the foundational humanness. They grow together; they are absence of Inner conflicts. How can one have peace when he revels in violence of speach and action?

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Together, Violence, Action

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• If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished with able and experienced men, fit to govern.

  Gerrard Winstanley

  Men, Political, Term Limits

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• What is the most profitable? Fellowship with the good. What is the worst thing in the world? The society of evil men. What is the greatest loss? Failure in one?s duty. Where is the greatest peace? In truth and righteousness. Who is the hero? The man who subdues his senses. Who is the best beloved? The faithful wife. What is wealth? Knowledge. What is the most perfect happiness? Staying at home.

  Bhartrhari

  Happiness, Peace, Hero

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• The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are: Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non violence.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Men, Violence, Cherish

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• Doctors should recognise the importance of the five human values; Truth, righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-violence. Love is the basis for all the other values. Doctors can infuse courage in patients by the love they show towards the patients. If doctors carry out their duties with love they will be crowned with success.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love Is, Doctors, Violence

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• At the present moment, in the prevailing situation, what is most essential is the cultivation of love. Losing love mankind has lost its humanness. Love is the Supreme human value. Truth, righteousness, peace and non-violence are other human values. Knowing these values, men are foolishly leading valueless lives.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love Is, Men, Knowing

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• The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

  J. C. Ryle

  Self, Cures, Self Knowledge

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.340, Editora Dracaena

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• There is no mercy in trading life for life. And certainly no righteousness. Mercy, once given, cannot be taken back.

  Janet Morris

  Life, Taken, Mercy

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.82, Paradise Publishing

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• That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Savior, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Men, Self, Complacency

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• Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means, even passive aggression. From a distance, we are all fighting, and I am looking at this from a distance.

  Robert Greene

  Distance, Struggle, Mean

  Source: powerseductionandwar.com

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• No wonder if such persons look upon imputed righteousness as the shadow of a dream, who esteem those things which evidence its necessity to be but fond imaginations. And small hope is there to bring such men to value the righteousness of Christ, as imputed to them, who are so unacquainted with their own unrighteousness inherent in them. Until men know themselves better, they will care very little to know Christ at all.

  John Owen

  Dream, Men, Imagination

  John Owen “The Doctrine of Justification by Faith”, Lulu.com

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• I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Men, Companionship

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.72, Beacon Press

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• Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Looks, Normal, Strange

  Twitter post from Sep 6, 2013

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• The Lord needs women who will step forward in righteousness and say, 'Here am I, send me.'

  M. Russell Ballard

  Needs, Steps, Lord

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• Biblical righteousness is more than a private and personal affair; it includes social righteousness as well....Thus Christians are committed to hunger for righteousness in the whole human community as something pleasing to a righteous God.

  John Stott

  Christian, Biblical, Community

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• I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

  Solomon

  Law, Wickedness, Saws

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• The title 'Righteousness' is given to God because He assigns what is appropriate to all things; he distributes their due proportion, beauty, rank, arrangement, their proper and fitting place and order.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Order, Titles

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• If you are fond of dressing elegantly, or when you put on your clothes, think of the incorruptible garment of righteousness in which our souls should be arrayed, or of Jesus Christ Who is our spiritual raiment, as it is said: 'For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ' (Gal. 3:27).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

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• We must, with God's help, eradicate the deadly poison of the demon of anger from the depths of our souls. So long as he dwells in our hearts and blinds the eyes of the heart with his somber disorders, we can neither discriminate what is for our good, nor achieve spiritual knowledge, nor fulfill our good intentions, nor participate in true life; and our intellect will remain impervious to the contemplation of the true, divine light; for it is written, 'Man's anger does not bring about the righteousness of God' (Jms. 1:20).

  John Cassian

  Christian, Spiritual, Eye

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• This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ's, and Christ's righteousness is not Christ's but ours.

  Martin Luther

  Grace, Riches, Mystery

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• True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.

  George Whitefield

  Mean, Self, Sin

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