quotations about righteousness
When this intimacy of connection and communion is formed, our sins are laid upon Christ; His righteousness is imputed to us. He was made sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.
ELLEN WHITE
"Do It Yourself Faith", Adventist Review, November 6, 2017
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
EURIPIDES
fragment, Aegeus
I have never seen the righteous forsaken
I am not alone
FRED HAMMOND
"I Am Not Alone"
In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.
BIBLE
1 John 3:10
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
The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
For I say to you that if your righteousness does not surpass that of the scribes and the Pharisees, you will by no means enter into the Kingdom of heavens.
JESUS CHRIST
Matthew 5:20
They that plant trees of righteousness shall feast upon peace, quietness, and assurance, which are the fruits of righteousness.
WILLIAM HUNTINGTON
letter to Nancy, August 10, 1810
Righteousness is a word that is often misunderstood. We know that God is going to judge every act and deed of the flesh, whether it be good or bad, righteous or evil. It is with this thought in mind we take a look at our garments of righteousness. "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come and His wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints." (Revelation 19:7-8) God initiates righteousness by His sovereign gift. Our sins are totally forgiven and have been wiped away. His gift of mercy through Jesus Christ has given us the ability to do what is right. St. Paul wrote, "Christ is the end of the law for righteousness." Thus, a man cannot be saved or become righteous by works alone; righteousness is maintained by his good deeds. Righteous simply means doing what is right, as God also does what is right.
ED CHIDESTER
The Daily Nugget
Listen to me, you who are pursuing righteousness, you who are seeking Jehovah. Look to the rock from which you were hewn and to the quarry from which you were dug.
BIBLE
Isaiah 51:1
Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards.
E. H. CHAPIN
Living Words
Nor knew I that true inward righteousness which judgeth not according to custom, but out of the most rightful law of God Almighty, whereby the ways of places and times were disposed according to those times and places; itself meantime being the same always and every where, not one thing in one place, and another in another; according to which Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and Moses, and David, were righteous, and all those commended by the mouth of God; but were judged unrighteous by silly men, judging out of man's judgment, and measuring by their own petty habits, the moral habits of the whole human race.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Confessions
We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.
MARTIN LUTHER
"Disputation against Scholastic Theology"
Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.
BRIGHAM YOUNG
Journal of Discourses
True righteousness is never personal. It flows from an understanding of our real nature as God's expression, in which we have no mind or will or ability of our own.
MARTHA LEMASTERS
"The difference between divine wisdom and human opinion", TCPalm, July 19, 2017
It is an act of God's free grace, whereby He pardoneth all our sins, and accepts us as righteous in His sight, only for the righteousness of Christ, imputed to us, and received by faith.
THOMAS WATSON
A Body of Practical Divinity
The lord look down from heaven
On the children of man
To see if there is anyone
Who will understand
Do you speak of righteousness
With the violence of your hand
Judgment will return, my friend
To give justice to the land
Mmmm mmmmmm
ZIGGY MARLEY
"Mmmm Mmmm"
Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN
One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World
Righteousness exalteth a nation.
BIBLE
Proverbs 14:34
Righteousness acts never in its own interest, but in the interest of fellow men.
THADDEUS OF VITOVNICA
Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives
Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
ABRAHAM
Genesis 18:23-25