RIGHTEOUSNESS QUOTES V

quotations about righteousness

Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith.... Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.

MARTIN LUTHER

The Freedom of a Christian

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Despotism despises nothing so much as righteousness in its victims.

GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS

Shantaram


He that doth righteousness; that is, righteousness which the gospel calleth so, is righteous; that is, precedent to, or before he doth that righteousness. For he doth not say, he shall make his person righteous by acts of righteousness that he shall do; for then an evil tree may bear good fruit, yea, and make itself good by doing so; but he saith, He that doth righteousness is righteous; as he saith, He that doth righteousness is born of him.

JOHN BUNYAN

The Pharisee and The Publican

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Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.

JOHN BRADSHAW

Healing the Shame that Binds You


He that hungers and thirsts for righteousness is a happy person; who being convinced of the excellency, suitableness, and absolute necessity, both of a justifying righteousness before God, and an edifying righteousness before men, feels, in his own heart, a sense of its want, and a desire of supply.

WILLIAM MCEWEN

"On Hungering and Thirsting for Righteousness", Select Essays Doctrinal & Practical on a Variety of the Most Important and Interesting Subjects in Divinity


Christ is the righteousness of sinners to God, and the righteousness of God to sinners.

RALPH VENNING

attributed, Day's Collacon


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 of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father.

DONALD CARGILL

The Scots Worthies