Quotes about Righteousness

Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.

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

The righteousness of God in His election means, then, that as a righteous Judge God perceives and estimates as such the lost cause of the creature, and that in spite of its opposition He gives sentence in its favour, fashioning for it His own righteousness.

The righteousness of God in His election means, then, that as a righteous Judge God perceives and estimates as such the lost cause of the creature, and that in spite of its opposition He gives sentence in its favour, fashioning for it His own righteousness.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

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

The Master said, "The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit." (Analects 4.16)

Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.