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I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.
To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.
Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.
Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide
Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic.
For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.
If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness.
To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.
A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.
Your fellowship with God never came because of your righteousness. So how could your own righteousness maintain it?
Building our homes as fortresses of righteousness for protection from the world takes constant labor and diligence.
When you get so tired that you realize you cannot generate righteousness, come on back and I'll tell you about a gift.
To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.
So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.
A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.
When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet!
Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
He that serves God is resigned up into him, and in all things has respect to truth and righteousness, and will promote that.
Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.
Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.
I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.
We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
We need to look at truth. We need to look at justice, and we need to look at righteousness. And let that be our guide going forward.
Before Allah nothing of our material existence impresses Allah. It is our righteousness and our uprightness alone that impresses God.
There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.
I never really feel wrong while making movies. I know myself, and I know that my intentions are pure and I'm on the side of righteousness.
Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.
Self-righteousness, when you think about it, is a contra-indicator of self-esteem. It's what sets in when genuine righteousness eludes us.
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.
One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.
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.
Music is a talent given to me by God. A medium and a platform and a way to spread a message of righteousness... a message of love, a message of unity.
I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.
Every time I think of Doug Wilson, I think 'pathetic.' When it comes between something for himself or something for righteousness, he'll choose himself.
It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.
Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in moving mountains - if moving mountains accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will.
It is not good for us to trust in our merits, in our virtues or our righteousness; but only in God's free pardon, as given us through faith in Jesus Christ.
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.
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.
The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough; it is the very spirit of unsparing truth.
Unless we ardently and prayerfully devote ourselves to Christ's righteousness we do not only faithlessly revolt from our Creator, but we also abjure him as our Savior.
My 12th was my most Christian and most boring year of my life. Try as I did, day after day, to cling to righteousness, I was washed down in suds of sinful surroundings.
In the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we have people who pretend that they can, but it simply isn't true.
Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.