Quotes about Righteousness
Holiness is not merely a feeling, state of mind, or good intention. It involves practical separation from sin and real separation unto God.
— Paul Washer
When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they are not right with God, they are easy on themselves and hard on others.
— John Newton
My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just.
— Thomas Jefferson
If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety, but profit.
— Clement of Alexandria
Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
— William James
The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.
— RC Sproul
God's wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.
— JI Packer
It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.
— CS Lewis
When you are committed to doing what's right, you are sowing seeds for God's blessings. You will never go wrong by taking the high road and doing more that is required.
— Joel Osteen
The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.
— George Whitefield
The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
— Soren Kierkegaard
In the person of Christ God beholds a holiness which abides His closest scrutiny, yea, which rejoices and satisfies His heart; and whatever Christ is before God, He is for His people.
— AW Pink