Quotes about Righteousness
What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.
— Cicero
The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.
— George Washington
Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.
— Mark Twain
It's better to gather in righteousness than fellowship with darkness.
— Bishop TD Jakes
the time is always right to do the right thing
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
When our heart wants to live in purity & do the right thing, God will keep us from falling into sin.
— Stormie Omartian
The time is always right to do the right thing.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.
— Edmund Burke
With our touch, Jesus becomes our scapegoat. In his touch, Jesus takes our sin and absorbs our shame (Psalm 69:9; Romans 15:3), and we receive his righteousness. If you prefer symmetry in your relationships, in which you give a gift of similar value to the one you receive, you have not yet touched Jesus.
— Edward Welch
Anger shows contempt. You are better than they. You are smarter, more righteous—you are above and they are below. Anger tears down. It kills relationships.
— Edward Welch
True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
— Albert Einstein
No man shall be the avenger of his own wrongs, especially by a deed alike interdicted by the laws of God and man.
— Alexander Hamilton