Righteousness Quotes - Page 26

• Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness

  Richard Wright

  Lonely, Self, White

  Richard Wright (2010). “American Hunger”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.

  Dallas Willard

  Spiritual, Spiritual Disciplines, Discipline

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• Jesus is humble, and His servants must not be proud; but Jesus was never mean or cowardly, nor must His servants be. There was no braver man than Christ. He could stoop to save a soul, but He would stoop to nothing by which His character might be compromised or truth and righteousness insulted. To preach the Gospel boldly is to deliver it as such a message ought to be delivered. Blush to preach of a dying Saviour? Apologize for talking about the Son of God condescending to be made man that He might redeem us from all iniquity? Never!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Humble, Character

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1990). “The Quotable Spurgeon”, Shaw

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• But privately when things got very bad I often looked into books to see whether I could find some helpful words, and one day I read, "The forgiveness of sins is perpetual and righteousness first is not required." This impressed me so deeply that I went around saying it to myself. But then I forgot which book it was.

  Saul Bellow

  Book, One Day, Firsts

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• If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Hands, Egypt

  "Nineteen Eighty-four".

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• The Bible says, "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost"

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Joy, Meat, Kingdoms

  Chris Oyakhilome PhD. (2014). “Seven Things The Holy Spirit Will Do For You”, p.12, LoveWorld Publishing

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• Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness. We must seek to remove conditions of poverty, injustice, and racial discrimination.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Justice, Defense, Bombs

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• I no longer merely confess that I am the righteousness of Christ. I realize that with His DNA in me through His blood, I could be nothing else. I realize the attributes of His DNA reside in me - whether dormant or active.

  Che Ahn

  Dna, Blood, Realizing

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• My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.

  John Woolman

  Teaching, Heart, People

  John Woolman (1840). “A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ”, p.135

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• The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches--and even, with the best intentions, from us - can push them toward pride or despair...toward self-righteousness or self-hatred.

  Phil Vischer

  Teacher, Kids, Pride

  Phil Vischer (2012). “Sidney and Norman: A Tale of Two Pigs”, p.46, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if it destroyed itself, it harbored the potential to become nobler, to take responsibility for its actions, to live and let live, and to earn the stewardship of the earth.

  Dean Koontz

  Cheating, Lying, Ignorance

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• My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own virtue, nothing more. My description of being has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is that one should be led by one's innate nature, nothing more.

  Zhuangzi

  Wise, Wisdom, Virtue

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• How did they manage to raise their children in righteousness? The principles become part of their lives, and when it becomes part of their life, it isn't difficult to do.

  David B. Haight

  Life, Children, Principles

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• Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

  Tom T. Hall

  Names, Strange, Wonderful

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• The fruit of humanity is devotion to one's parents. The fruit of righteousness is to respect one's elders. The fruit of wisdom is to understand these two and not to betray them. The fruit of propriety is to regulate and polish them. The fruit of music is the joy that comes from rejoicing in them. When one rejoices in them, they grow. When they grow, how can they be stopped? And when they cannot be stopped, unconsciously one's feet begin to dance and one's arms begin to wave.

  Mencius

  Two, Feet, Joy

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• Forgiveness is Truth itself. It is Righteousness, it is the Veda. It is the supreme virtue in this world.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Past, Vedas, World

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• We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Watches, Care, Morality

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.166, Diderot Publishing

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• It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.

  Mark E. Petersen

  Fashion, Men, Law

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• In the month of October, the universal Church highlights her missionary vocation. Guided by the Holy Spirit she knows she is called to pursue the work of Jesus himself, proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom of God which is "righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit"

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Joy, Church

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• Grace does not overlook sin, it empowers righteousness!

  Bill Johnson

  Empowering, Grace, Doe

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• In the old, sin contaminates. In the new, righteousness contaminates. It's a different day.

  Bill Johnson

  Different, Sin, Different Day

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• Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.

  Bill Griffith

  Religious, Food, Vegetarianism

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• I would encourage them never to forget that they were not always vegans. The self-righteousness of the recently converted hurts, it does not help, other animals.

  Tom Regan

  Hurt, Animal, Helping Others

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• What do we want? What would we be at? What do our souls desire? Is it not that we might have a more full, clear, stable comprehension of the wisdom, love, grace, goodness, holiness, righteousness, and power of God, as declared and exalted in Christ unto our redemption and eternal salvation?

  John Owen

  Christian, Grace, Soul

  John Owen “The Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ & Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ”, Lulu.com

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• Though it may seem overdue, righteousness is always rewarded. Don't be impatient with God. He'll never forget to reward your efforts for Him.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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