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“When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height; and when we recall the infinite depth of our fall through sin we should not refuse to believe that the virtue which has been killed in us will rise again. For God can accomplish both these things: He can come down and illumine our intellect with spiritual knowledge, and He can raise up the virtue within us and exalt it with Himself through works of righteousness.”

“Blessed is he who like Joshua (cf. Josh. 10:12-13) keeps the Sun of righteousness from setting in himself throughout the whole day of his present life, not allowing it to be blotted out by the dusk of sin and ignorance. In this way he will truly be able to put to flight the cunning demons that rise up against him.”

Way Whole Able Christian Sin Sun Ignorance Blessed Setting Flight Settings Demon Orthodox Righteousness Allowing Cunning Dusk Cfs Josh Present Life

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“Concluding a short series on sin: It is appalling to think of a power so strong that it can annihilate with the irresistible force of its grinding heel; but it is inspiring to consider an Almightiness that transforms the works of evil into the hand-maidens of righteousness and converts the sinner into the saint. And it is this latter power which eternal Love possesses and exhibits. He persistently dwells in the sinner until the sinner wakes up in His likeness and is satisfied with it.”

“If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the way, the truth, and the life. This is the importance of grace - some people think that simply being nice and not harming others is morality; others think that following rules and tithing are morality. But without Christ, all moral beliefs ultimately boil down to the one sin which perpetually rails against the concept of grace: man's lawful, religious, and futile attempt at establishing his own righteousness.”

Source: Killosophy

“In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of righteousness and eternal life.”

Church Sin Wonder Eternal Triumph Righteousness Eternal Life Forgiveness Of Sins

Author:Martin Luther

“The Inmost is one with the Inmost; yet the form of the One is not the form of the other; intimacy exacts fitness. He therefore who liveth by air, let him not be bold to breathe water. But mastery cometh by measure: to him who with labour, courage, and caution giveth his life to understand all that doth encompass him, and to prevail against it, shall be increase. "The word of Sin is Restriction": seek therefore Righteousness, enquiring into Iniquity, and fortify thyself to overcome it.”

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Author:Aleister Crowley

“You are born supernaturally through faith, by the grace of God, into the kingdom of righteousness; but you are born a little babe, that is all; and if you make any progress from that point on, it must be by work, by sacrifice, by the practice of Christian virtues, by benevolence, by self-denial, by resisting the adversary, by making valiant war for God and against sin; and on no other basis, am I authorized in giving you a hope that you may come to manhood in Christ Jesus.”

“A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon.”

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Book:An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners, in a Serious Treatise

Source: An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners, in a Serious Treatise

“We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that it consists in the remission of sins and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness.”

Men Christ Sin Acceptance Favors Righteousness Righteous Justification Remission Righteous Man

Book:John Calvin: Selections from His Writings

Source: John Calvin: Selections from His Writings

“My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.”

Together Black Sin Sun Spots Righteousness Comes And Goes Disk

Author:Charles Henry Parkhurst

“Trust wholly in Christ; rely altogether on His sufferings; beware of seeking to be justified in any other way than by His righteousness. Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient for salvation. There must be atonement made for sin according to the righteousness of God. The person to make this atonement must be God and man.”

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Author:John Wycliffe

“The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.”

“Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that he cannot conceive, desire, or design any thing but what is wicked, distorted, foul, impure, and iniquitous; that his heart is so thoroughly envenomed by sin that it can breathe out nothing but corruption and rottenness; that if some men occasionally make a show of goodness, their mind is ever interwoven with hypocrisy and deceit, their soul inwardly bound with the fetters of wickedness.”

Source: The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)

“Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.”

Men Sin Satan Righteousness

Author:Saint Augustine

“To be justified means more than to be declared "not guilty." It actually means to be declared righteous before God. It means God has imputed or charged the guilt of our sin to His Son, Jesus Christ, and has imputed or credited Christ's righteousness to us.”

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Book:Transforming Grace

Source: Transforming Grace

“God's righteousness and His unchangeable law make Christianity a stumbling block for many. Organizations and individuals carry a political and moral agenda that aims to remove all obstacles to their sin. Their goal is to 'break God's bands asunder and cast away His cords.' They counsel together to rid themselves of the law of God; anyone who preaches the gospel or stands for righteousness stands in the way of their agenda.”

Source: Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God

“When you get honest with God, you can exchange the fig leaves you used to cover your sin with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.”

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Author:Johnny Hunt

“God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on my own. His righteousness.”

Christian Leadership Church My Own Sin Righteousness

Author:Johnny Hunt

“Self-righteousness....is the largest idol of the human heart - the idol which man loves most and God hates most. Dearly beloved, you will always be going back to this idol. You are always trying to be something in yourself, to gain God's favour by thinking little of your sin, or by looking to your repentance, tears, prayers ; or by looking to your religious exercises, your frames, etc; or by looking to your graces, the Spirit's work in your heart. Beware of false Christs. Study sanctification to the utmost, but make not a Christ of it.”

“By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance from sin a restoration of the soul to its primitive health its original purity a recovery of the divine nature the renewal of our souls after the image of God in righteousness and true holiness in justice mercy and truth.”

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley

“Grace does not overlook sin, it empowers righteousness!”

Doe Sin Grace Empowering Righteousness

Author:Bill Johnson

“In the old, sin contaminates. In the new, righteousness contaminates. It's a different day.”

Different Sin Righteousness Different Day

Author:Bill Johnson

“In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ's hand, keeping your eye on the mark of the wounds on his hands and side, whence came the blood that cleanses you from sin and hiding your nakedness under the skirt of the white shining robe of his righteousness.”

Source: treatise concerning religious affections. Justification by faith alone. Pressing into the kingdom of God. Ruth's resolution. Justice of God in the damnation of sinners. The excellency of Jesus Christ

“It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness”

Trying Enough Evil Sin Our Lives Empty Righteousness

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!”

Able Sin Answers Righteousness

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“To whom much is given, much is required. Righteousness exalts a nation...but sin is a reproach to any people”

People Given Nations Sin Righteousness Reproach

Book:The Harbinger

Source: The Harbinger

“The law showeth unto us our sins, and maketh known unto us our miserable estate and wretchedness, and how that there is nothing good in us, and that we are far off from all manner of righteousness, and so driveth us of necessity to seek righteousness in Christ.”

Law Christ Sin Known Miserable Righteousness Estates Wretchedness

Author:Daniel Cawdry

“Come away, my dear brethren, fly, fly, fly for your lives to Jesus Christ; fly to a bleeding God, fly to a throne of grace; and beg of God to break your heart; beg of God to convince you of your actual sins; beg of God to convince you of your original sin; beg of God to convince you of your self-righteousness; beg of God to give you faith, and to enable you to close with Jesus Christ.”

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Author:George Whitefield

“Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the divine image in man! That man has lost his righteousness and happiness is clearly evident as we look at the state of the world today!”

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Author:Robert South

“Without His Resurrection the death of Christ would be of no avail, and His grave would be the grave of all our hopes. A gospel of a dead Savior would be a miserable failure and delusion. The Resurrection is the victory of righteousness and life over sin an death.”

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Author:Philip Schaff

“When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.”

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Author:Paul David Tripp

“At the cross, the worst about us-our sins-was laid upon Christ, and the best about Him-His righteousness-was laid upon us.”

Christ Sin Worst Crosses Righteousness

Author:Steven J Lawson

“The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.”

Christian Religious Sin Righteousness Repent

Author:Timothy Keller

“God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.”

Sin Pay Attention Promise Righteousness

Author:Martin Luther

“Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.”

Self Law Sin Views Lows Fruit Righteousness Self Righteousness

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“But let us emphasize that right and wrong, righteousness and sin, are not dependent upon man's interpretations, conventions and attitudes. Social acceptance does not change the status of an act, making wrong into right. If all the people in the world were to accept homosexuality, the practice would still be a deep, dark sin.”

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Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“Believing that you are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus and simply receiving the gift of no condemnation gives you the power to go and sin no more.”

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Author:Joseph Prince

“We may love to say many things, but if these are not uttered in the Holy Spirit it is better to say nothing. The flesh can conjure up many plans and methods and be full of expectations. The righteousness of the flesh is as abhorrent as its sin we must always maintain God's view of the flesh.”

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Author:Watchman Nee

“When the devil looks at a man who sincerely desires not to sin, he is not so unintelligent as to suggest to him (as he would to a hardened sinner) that he go and commit fornication or go and steal. He knows we do not want that and he does not set out to tell us something we do not want to hear; but he finds out that little bit of self-will or self-righteousness and through that, with the appearance of well doing, he will do us harm.”