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To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.
Smith Wigglesworth
Crave to be holy and just such that nothing in this world can enthrall us more than being close to the Almighty.
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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
We shall never don the righteousness of Christ unless we are certain that our own righteousness is non-existent.
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Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Do not be discouraged on the path of morality due to the scarcity of travelers on it.
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My righteousness is just as good as Jesus' righteousness, because it IS Jesus' righteousness!
E. W. Kenyon
'My justification is equivalent to Jesus' justification, because it IS Jesus' justification!'
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Regret not that which is past; and trust not to thine own righteousness.
Anthony of Padua
Refrain from lamenting the past; and do not put your faith in your own morality.
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Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance.
Judah Smith
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Pure Christlike love flowing from true righteousness can change the world.
Jeffrey R. Holland
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This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.
John Newton
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Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.
John Bunyan
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God will begin to prosper you, for money always follows righteousness.
Benny Hinn
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So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.
Mencius
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For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.
Johann Arndt
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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
Jonathan Edwards
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The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.
R. C. Sproul
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Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge.
Martin Luther
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Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.
Charles Spurgeon
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Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.
Vance Havner
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Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.
Tullian Tchividjian
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Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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Our works do not generate righteousness, rather our righteousness in Christ generates works.
Martin Luther
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In spinning a robe of your own righteousness, before the sun goes down you will find it all unraveled.
Curtis Hutson
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Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide
Jonathan Haidt
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It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.
Edgar Cayce
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You can drift into sin, but not into righteousness.
Leon Morris
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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
Timothy Keller
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Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed.
Ravi Zacharias
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There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.
Mary Catherwood
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Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic.
Laozi
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There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.
Tullian Tchividjian
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most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.
Vera Brittain
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Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.
Bertrand Russell
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If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.
Theodore Roosevelt
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To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.
George MacDonald
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Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none.
Timothy Keller
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Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.
Brigham Young
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Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.
Tullian Tchividjian
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A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.
R. Kent Hughes
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There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.
John Bunyan
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Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?
Tony Campolo
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The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.
J. C. Ryle
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One thing, and only one thing, is necessary for Christian life, righteousness, and freedom. That one thing is the most holy Word of God, the gospel of Christ.
Martin Luther
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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.
William Sloane Coffin
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Faith is a gift of God bestowed as a reward for personal righteousness.
Bruce R. McConkie
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Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.
Tullian Tchividjian
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To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness
Confucius
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When you get so tired that you realize you cannot generate righteousness, come on back and I'll tell you about a gift.
Jeff VanVonderen