Righteousness Quotations

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.

Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.

God will begin to prosper you, for money always follows righteousness.

God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.

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

Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it.

In the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we have people who pretend that they can, but it simply isn't true.

Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living.

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

The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner.

The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.

You can drift into sin, but not into righteousness.

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.

This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.

Righteousness has never precluded adversity.

Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.

Unless we ardently and prayerfully devote ourselves to Christ's righteousness we do not only faithlessly revolt from our Creator, but we also abjure him as our Savior.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.

To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.

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

Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.

...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough; it is the very spirit of unsparing truth.

It is not righteousness to outrage

Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.

Do people get moral when they don't get ahead?

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.

Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

My trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness.

To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

Righteousness exalteth a nation.

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.

Our works do not generate righteousness, rather our righteousness in Christ generates works.

One thing, and only one thing, is necessary for Christian life, righteousness, and freedom. That one thing is the most holy Word of God, the gospel of Christ.

Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge.

The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.

There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.