Righteousness Quotes
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Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.
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True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
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I pledged to work for righteousness. God's given me inspiration. God's the boss, he tell me what to do.
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God knows it is emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that righteousness that nourishes itself on the blood of sinners. But God also knows that what is emotionally satisfying can be spiritually devastating.
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The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.
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But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, would we be guilty if we prevented them from doing us evil?
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The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.
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History teaches us that there have been but few infringements of personal liberty by the state which have not been justified, as they are here, in the name of righteousness and the public good, and few which have not been directed, as they are now, at politically helpless minorities.
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Faith is the means by which the righteousness of Christ is given to us.
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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.
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No one will ever go to Hell who has put his trust in Jesus Christ, but many will end up in torment who have trusted their own righteousness and reformation.
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A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.
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It is not righteousness to outrage.
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.
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A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.
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A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.
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We have no excuse to deviate from the paths of righteousness. If we hold fast to the iron rod, we cannot be deceived.
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Righteousness has never precluded adversity.
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Righteousness exalteth a nation.
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It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.
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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.
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The law showeth unto us our sins, and maketh known unto us our miserable estate and wretchedness, and how that there is nothing good in us, and that we are far off from all manner of righteousness, and so driveth us of necessity to seek righteousness in Christ.
Daniel Cawdry -
Man needs to be Saved from his own Wisdom as much as from his own Righteousness, for they produce one and the same corruption. Nothing saves a man from his own righteousness, but that which delivers him from his own wisdom.
