#righteousness

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#best #does #generally #him #indignation

If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits. ↗

— Chin-Ning Chu

#strategy #art

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.' Not only do the followers of Jesus renounce their rights, they renounce their own righteousness too. They get no praise for their achievements or sacrifices. They cannot have righteousness except by hungering and thirsting for it (this applies equally to their own righteousness and to the righteousness of God on Earth), always they look forward to the future righteousness of God, but they cannot establish it for themselves. Those who follow Jesus grow hungry and thirsty on the way. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#forgiveness #god #jesus #righteousness #equality

The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The subtlety of Satan appears in its height, in his managing persons with respect to this sin. And perhaps one reason may be that here he has most experience; he knows the way of its coming in; he is acquainted with the secret springs of it: it was his own sin. Experience gives vast advantage in leading souls, either in good or evil. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#good #pride #self-righteousness #sin #experience

Still, I never heard him say that he hated or wanted to hurt or kill someone for all the horrific things that had been happening to him and his family. ↗

— Savo Heleta

#dignity #humanity #integrity #not-my-turn-to-die #righteousness

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. ↗

— Adrian Rogers

#inspirational #righteousness #truth #inspirational

The woman must be restored to her rightful place, as the strong, loving maternal leader of peace and reason. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#righteousness #strong-women #love

When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not merely inferior to them in skill but lower in God's eyes; as the priests said, 'All that rabble who are not experts in the Torah are accursed.' and as this pride increases, the 'subject' or study which confers such privilege will grow more and more complicated, the list of things forbidden will increase, till to get through a single day without supposed sin becomes like an elaborate step-dance, and this horrible network breeds self-righteousness in some and haunting anxiety in others. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#reflections-on-the-psalms #religion #self-righteousness #men

It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#enough #righteousness #sin

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#living #real #religion #righteousness #soul