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“The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if it destroyed itself, it harbored the potential to become nobler, to take responsibility for its actions, to live and let live, and to earn the stewardship of the earth.”

“What do we want? What would we be at? What do our souls desire? Is it not that we might have a more full, clear, stable comprehension of the wisdom, love, grace, goodness, holiness, righteousness, and power of God, as declared and exalted in Christ unto our redemption and eternal salvation?”

Source: The Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ & Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

“Though it may seem overdue, righteousness is always rewarded. Don't be impatient with God. He'll never forget to reward your efforts for Him.”

May God Seems Christian Religious Forget Effort Rewards Righteousness Never Forget Impatient Overdue

Author:David Jeremiah

“He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love.”

World God Christian Nations Wonder Grace Prove Glory God Love Righteousness His Love

Author:Isaac Watts

“Light reveals righteousness, and it also reveals sin.”

Light Christian Sin Righteousness

Author:Theodore Epp

“The love of God again makes us free, for it draws us to set a low value on those things wherein we are subject to others - our wealth, our position, our reputation, and our life - and to set a high value on those things which no man can take from us - our integrity, our righteousness, our love for all men, and our communion with God.”

Men Values Wealth Our Lives Subjects Position Integrity Lows Draws Reputation God Love Righteousness Communion Our Love Communion With God Quaker

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.”

Soul Home Light School Together Moving Law Church Secret Grace Tomorrow Evidence Safety Fishes Driven Priests Righteousness Candle Icons

Book:The Lacuna

Source: The Lacuna

“The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to show them their blindness, narrowness, and self righteousness, and how these things are destroying both their own souls and the lives of the people around them.”

People Want Soul Self Stories Shows Jesus Religious Moral Sinner Target Righteousness Destroying Outsiders Blindness Immoral Self Righteous Self Righteousness Pleading Insiders

Author:Timothy Keller

“The first step to walking in righteousness is simply to try. We must try to believe. Try to learn of God: read the scriptures; study the words of His latter-day prophets; choose to listen to the Father, and do the things He asks of us. Try and keep on trying until that which seems difficult becomes possible-and that which seems only possible becomes habit and a real part of you.”

Trying Firsts Believe Real Seems Asks Father Difficult Steps Study Habit Walking Scripture Prophet Latter Righteousness First Steps Latter Days Scripture Study

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

Jesus Depends Performances Finished Righteousness

Author:Judah Smith

“There is no peace in Southern Africa. There is no peace because there is no justice. There can be no real peace and security until there be first justice enjoyed by all the inhabitants of that beautiful land. The Bible knows nothing about peace without justice, for that would be crying "peace, peace, where there is no peace". God's Shalom, peace, involves inevitably righteousness, justice, wholeness, fullness of life, participation in decision-making, goodness, laughter, joy, compassion, sharing and reconciliation.”

“The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.”

Beautiful Sun Youth Flower Righteousness

Author:Matthew Henry

“The self-righteousness and other ego-puffery that makes missionaries and evangelists out of Christians is in truth a measure of how far they are from even the one thing they think is most certainly true, i.e. the confidence that they are truly Christians.”

Thinking Self Philosophy Christian One Thing Ego Righteousness Self Righteousness Evangelists

Author:Kenny Smith

“When Christ entered into Jerusalem the people spread garments in the way: when He enters into our hearts, we pull off our own righteousness, and not only lay it under Christ's feet but even trample upon it ourselves.”

People Way Heart Christ Feet Lays Spread Sunday Righteousness Palms Garments Jerusalem Palm Sunday

Book:The works of Augustus M. Toplady

Source: The works of Augustus M. Toplady

“Don’t get discouraged if you stumble at times. The first step to walking in righteousness is simply to try.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Steps Walking Righteousness First Steps Discouraged

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

Knows Firsts Christ Righteousness

Book:Commentary on Romans

Source: Commentary on Romans

“The more we have given to ourselves, the more we have to give to others. When we find that place within ourselves that is giving, we begin to create an outward flow. Giving to others comes not from a sense of sacrifice, self-righteousness, or spirituality, but for the pure pleasure of it, because it's fun. Giving can only come from a full, loving space.”

Giving Self Spirituality Given Fun Space Pleasure Sacrifice Pure Flow Righteousness Self Righteousness Giving To Others

Book:Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations

Source: Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations

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

World Hunger Righteousness Thirst Hunger And Thirst

Book:Ever Increasing Faith

Source: Ever Increasing Faith

“Within evangelicalism is a distressing drift toward accepting a Christianity that does not demand a life-changing walk with God. Many evangelicals (today) do not realize that the church has always been an island of righteousness in a sea of paganism, but as a result they turned the world upside-down.”

World Doe Today Realizing Church Walks Results Accepting Christianity Sea Demand Life Changing Islands Righteousness Paganism Upside Down Distressing Walking With God World Upside Down

Author:Erwin W. Lutzer

“It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.... We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment. Then virtue and contentment will come and reign within your heart, unsought by any effort of your own; and you will be a good citizen, a loving husband, and a tender father—a noble, pious man.”

Source: Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1

“Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.”

Giving Writing Book Money Lord Give Me Sells Righteousness

Book:Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying

“The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.”

Men World Kind Self Earth Practice He Man Creatures Remains Affair Immortal Righteousness Passive True God

Author:Kabir

“Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.”

People Country Cities Corners Manifestation Righteousness Distrust Cleverness

Author:Edward Hoagland

“In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward and punishment instrumental in persuading man to obey divine commandments.”

Men Sin Fate Divine Morality Bible Rewards Prosperity Punishment Righteousness Misfortunes Commandments Persuading Reward And Punishment

Book:Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life

Source: Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life

“The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.”

Men World Humans Blood Century Battle Human Life Righteousness Militancy

Book:My Own Story: Top Biography

Source: My Own Story: Top Biography

“When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet!”

Firsts Able Saws Feet Dancing Noise Righteousness Tap Dancing

Author:Shalom Harlow

“If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.”

Ifs Country Justice Poor Oppression Righteousness Astounded

Author:Solomon

“Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.”

Self Black White Devil Righteousness Self Righteous Self Righteousness

Book:The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons

Source: The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons

“The saints are sinners still. Our best tears need to be wept over, the strongest faith is mixed with unbelief, our most flaming love is cold compared with what Jesus deserves, and our intensest zeal still lacks the full fervor which the bleeding wounds and pierced heart of the crucified might claim at our hands. Our best things need a sin offering, or they would condemn us.”

Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series

“Like Muslims we assume that God will judge us "on balance." If our good deeds outweigh our bad deeds, we will arrive safely in heaven. But, alas, if our evil deeds outweigh our good ones, we will suffer the wrath of God in hell. We may be "marred" by sin but in no wise devastated by it. We still have the ability to balance our sins with our own righteousness. This is the most monstrous lie of all.”

“Human self-righteousness denies the need for the saving, enabling grace of Christ. Human righteousness embraces the cruelest of Satan's lies, that a person can be righteous by keeping the law. If that were true, there would have been no need for the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ.”

“If we think we are usually good, then God is usually irrelevant... Such thinking ignores the depths of sin in my own heart, and, in essence, it elevates me so that I am just a mildly flawed imitation of God rather than someone completely dependent on Him.”

Ifs Thinking Heart My Own Sin Essence Depth Dependent Righteousness Imitation Irrelevant Flawed Self Righteous Self Righteousness

Author:Edward T Welch

“"Sinner" is a present-tense description of everyone, including those who have put their faith in Christ. Of course, those who have called Jesus "Lord" are justified, meaning that they are no longer guilty. Also, they have been given the Spirit, which makes them slaves to Christ rather than to sin. But we all are sinners. Perfection awaits eternity.”

“Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.”

People Self Form Sin Virtue Shapes Harm Righteousness Self Righteous Self Righteousness

Author:J. C. Ryle

“Self-righteousness exclaims, "I will not be saved in God's way; I will make a new road to heaven; I will not bow before God's grace; I will not accept the atonement which God has wrought out in the person of Jesus; I will be my own redeemer; I will enter heaven by my own strength, and glorify my own merits." The Lord is very wroth against self-righteousness. I do not know of anything against which His fury burneth more than against this, because this touches Him in a very tender point, it insults the glory and honor of His Son Jesus Christ.”

“So when we call pain a problem, we claim we do not deserve it. We are even prepared to scuttle God to maintain our own innocence. We will say that God is not able to do what He would like, or He would never permit persons such as ourselves to suffer. That puffs up our egos and soothes our griefs at the same time. "How could God do this to me?" is at once an admission of pain and a soporific for it. It reduces our personal grief by eradicating the deity. Drastic medicine, indeed, that only a human ego, run wild, could possibly imagine.”

“I think, that a man never passes the verge of moral humility, till self-righteousness be dethroned, till the high and towering imaginations of the man's own righteousness by the law be levelled by the mighty weapons of the gospel, and he brought to submit to the righteousness of God for justification, which is, in the gospel revealed 'from faith to faith.'”

Thinking Men Self Law Imagination Moral Humility He Man Weapons Righteousness Submit Justification Verge Self Righteous Self Righteousness

Book:The Whole Works of the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine, Minister of the Gospel at Stirling: Consisting of Sermons and Discourses, on Important and Interesting Subjects. To which is Added, an Enlarged Memoir of the Author, by D. Fraser

Source: The Whole Works of the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine, Minister of the Gospel at Stirling: Consisting of Sermons and Discourses, on Important and Interesting Subjects. To which is Added, an Enlarged Memoir of the Author, by D. Fraser

“No wonder if such persons look upon imputed righteousness as the shadow of a dream, who esteem those things which evidence its necessity to be but fond imaginations. And small hope is there to bring such men to value the righteousness of Christ, as imputed to them, who are so unacquainted with their own unrighteousness inherent in them. Until men know themselves better, they will care very little to know Christ at all.”

Source: The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

“Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.”

Father Cities Higher Accounts Reputation Righteousness Nobility Jerusalem Commendation

Book:The Works of Josephus--: Containing Twenty Books of the Jewish Antiquities, Seven Books of the Jewish War, and the Life of Josephus

Source: The Works of Josephus--: Containing Twenty Books of the Jewish Antiquities, Seven Books of the Jewish War, and the Life of Josephus