Righteousness Quotes

• The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith.

  

  John Calvin
  • Gospel
  • Righteousness
  • God In Christ

• If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished with able and experienced men, fit to govern.

  

  Gerrard Winstanley
  • Rule
  • Govern
  • Righteousness

• When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. The righteousness by which a person is justified (declared righteous) is not his own but that of another, Christ.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Faith
  • Christ
  • Gospel

• We have no excuse to deviate from the paths of righteousness. If we hold fast to the iron rod, we cannot be deceived.

  

  William Grant Bangerter
  • Iron
  • Righteousness
  • Deceived

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

  

  John Calvin
  • First
  • Christ
  • Righteousness

• So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Answer
  • Sins
  • Righteousness

• To become as perfect as a mortal being can become, we need to bring the mind, body, and spirit into total harmony...We must add to that harmony Christ like love and righteousness.

  

  Betty Eadie
  • Christ
  • Harmony
  • Mortal

• Throne, O God, endures forever and ever. Your royal scepter is a scepter of equity; You love righteousness and hate wickedness.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • God
  • Love
  • Hate

• What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Live
  • Man
  • Mankind

• My future is righteousness.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Future
  • Righteousness

• Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Law
  • Worker
  • Presumption

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

  

  Brigham Young
  • Practice
  • Righteousness
  • Preach

• 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
  • Sin
  • Helpful

• Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Reality
  • Waiting
  • Easy

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

  

  Martin Luther
  • Grace
  • Refuge
  • Righteousness

• You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It's just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can't throw enough darkness on light to put it out.

  

  Thomas Kinkade
  • Attention
  • Spiritual
  • Winning

• Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Heaven
  • Goodness
  • Rewards

• In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in Christ, His face shines out, full of grace and gentleness to poor, unworthy sinners.

  

  John Calvin
  • Law
  • God Is
  • Sinners

• I thank God and His Son, Jesus Christ, for the Restoration and its power to propel a magnificent wave of truth and righteousness across the earth.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Earth
  • Christ
  • Wave

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