Righteousness Quotes

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.

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

Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it.

My righteousness is just as good as Jesus' righteousness, because it IS Jesus' righteousness!

Regret not that which is past; and trust not to thine own righteousness.

Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance.

Pure Christlike love flowing from true righteousness can change the world.

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.

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.

God will begin to prosper you, for money always follows righteousness.

So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.

For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.

A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

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

Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.

Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.

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

Our works do not generate righteousness, rather our righteousness in Christ generates works.

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

In spinning a robe of your own righteousness, before the sun goes down you will find it all unraveled.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.

You can drift into sin, but not into righteousness.

A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.

Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed.

There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.

Beware of people whose halos are on too tight.

Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic.

There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.

The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.

most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.

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.

Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none.

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

There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

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?

Righteousness exalteth a nation.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

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.

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.

Faith is a gift of God bestowed as a reward for personal righteousness.

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

When you get so tired that you realize you cannot generate righteousness, come on back and I'll tell you about a gift.