quotations about righteousness
To be a righteous woman during the winding up scenes on this earth, before the second coming of our Savior, is an especially noble calling.... She has been placed here to help to enrich, to protect, and to guard the home--which is society's basic and most noble institution.
SPENCER W. KIMBALL
The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour's eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour's case.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
We can love and do righteous acts only by grace.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Pearls of Wisdom: Great Mind
Leaving sin is not enough, unless we embrace righteousness.
THOMAS WATSON
A Body of Practical Divinity
Take me to the water
To be baptized
None but the righteous
None but the righteous
None but the righteous
Shall be saved
NINA SIMONE
"Take Me To the Water"
The righteous and the wicked
War and peace
The killing fist of the human beast
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
"The Righteous & The Wicked"
When it is his meat and drink to do the will of God, how little he envies you of your dainties, that are the workers of iniquity! His hungering and his thirsting is better than their feasting and carousing. O blessed hunger! O desirable thirst! of which to die were a happiness to be envied. But he will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish. Bread shall be given them, and water shall be sure. For thus saith the voice of inspiration, "the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters." But the wicked "shall wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied."
WILLIAM MCEWEN
"On Hungering and Thirsting for Righteousness", Select Essays Doctrinal & Practical on a Variety of the Most Important and Interesting Subjects in Divinity
No, no, we are not satisfied and will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
"I Have a Dream" speech, August 28, 1963
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.
BIBLE
Malachi 4:2-3
Men keep on the path of righteousness only because the road to the Devil is not yet paved.
ABRAHAM MILLER
Unmoral Maxims
Without the righteous
Without the faithful
We would never accept the obscene
OZZY OSBOURNE
"Civilize the Universe"
Dropkick me Jesus through the goalposts of life
And over end neither left nor the right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
BOBBY BARE
"Drop Kick Me, Jesus"
You are holy
You are righteous
You are one of the redeemed
Set apart a brand new heart
You are free indeed
MERCYME
"Dear Younger Me"
The righteous will flourish like a palm tree,
they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon
BIBLE
Psalms 92:12
Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they're feeling righteous.
CLIVE BARKER
Mister B. Gone
The death of the righteous is like the descending of ripe and wholesome fruits from a pleasant and florid tree; our senses entire, our limbs unbroken, without horrid tortures, after provision made for our children, with a blessing entailed upon posterity, in the presence of our friends, our dearest relative closing up our eyes and binding our feet, leaving a good name behind us. O let my soul die such a death! for this, in whole or in part, according as God sees it good, is the manner that the righteous die.
JEREMY TAYLOR
The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor
When you think yours is the only true path you forever chain yourself to judging others and narrow the vision of God. The road to righteousness and arrogance is a parallel road that can intersect each other several times throughout a person's life. It's often hard to recognize one road from another. What makes them different is the road to righteousness is paved with the love of humanity. The road to arrogance is paved with the love of self.
SHANNON L. ALDER
attributed, "A Student of Life", Women Who Hope, February 5, 2016
The righteous do not always do right, but their souls remain pure.
J. R. WARD
Enshrined
Devotion to God, righteousness and wisdom, will keep us safe on earth.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Think Great, Be Great!
Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith.... Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.
MARTIN LUTHER
The Freedom of a Christian