quotations about righteousness
The big problem with my own righteousness is that it is not good enough. The OT tells us that compared to the perfect righteousness God expects, our righteousness is like an unclean, filthy rag (Isa 64:6). That's not very impressive. When he wrote those words, Isaiah was speaking to a group of religious Jews, but the assessment applies to all of us. Compared to what God expects, our righteousness is at its best ugly, dirty, and stained.
DAVE EARLEY & DAVID WHEELER
Evangelism Is...
My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.
JOHN WOOLMAN
A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours and Christian Experiences of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman
The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins, and you're talking about righteousness, you will get pushback. Jesus Himself did. The apostles did. I mean, there's persecution all up and down the line.
PAT ROBERTSON
"Pat Robertson: A Life, A Legacy", The 700 Club
Be not righteous overmuch.
BIBLE
Ecclesiastes 7:16
I'd rather be a cheerleader than a judge. I don't want to preach as if I'm in some position of righteousness, but I do want to speak my mind and scream at the clouds and shout out of the pit of hopelessness that I sometimes think the human race is in.
DAVE MATTHEWS
"Dave Matthews: Conscience and Craft", msn Entertainment News
The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on this planet. Christ will reign in righteousness. Disease will be arrested. Death will be modified. War will be abolished. Nature will be changed. Man will live as it was originally intended he should live.
BILLY GRAHAM
The Reason for My Hope
This is no time for the righteous
Only the wicked survive
MINISTRY
"Yellow Cake"
Won't you send down an angel
From the blue
To show me the righteous
Thing to do
Oh, I'm calling out to you
Send down an angel
To get me through
I'm not the praying kind
But it can't hurt to try
I can't find the answer
By myself
I need help
ALLISON MOORER
"Send Down an Angel"
How can a man trust in his own righteousness? It is like seeking shelter under one's own shadow.
W. H. MEDHURST
attributed, Day's Collacon
A hunger for the incorruptible bread of righteousness is an evidence that the new life in Christ is awakened in man.
JOHN PULSFORD
Quiet Hours
A righteous man does not conceive of himself as righteous; he is "only doing what anyone else would do," except, of course, that no one else does it.
MARTIN BERMAN-GORVINE
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People who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM
attributed, Security and Diplomacy: Essential Documents
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Every imagined way of salvation other than righteousness by faith is legalism, whether conservative legalism or liberal legalism, long-list legalism or short-list legalism.
TY GIBSON
"95 THESES For the Continuing Reformation", Adventist Review, November 16, 2017
Christ's righteousness is given to us to replace our lack of righteousness.
MARK MAUNULA
"Koinonia--Wanting and feeling", Message Media, October 22, 2017
By our righteousness, we give nothing to God; He reaps no advantage from it to himself. If we sow in righteousness, we sow to ourselves, and the harvest of this righteousness we ourselves reap.
GEORGE BULL
Some important points of primitive Christianity maintained and defended
In the case of man, righteousness is adjustment to God, and an articulation with man based upon that adjustment. Are you a righteous man? Am I a righteous man? Are you righteous? Then, if so, wherein does your righteousness consist? That your whole life is adjusted to God, and is moulded by that adjustment. This is righteousness.
G. CAMPBELL MORGAN
Winona Echoes: A Book of Sermons and Addresses
He loves righteousness and justice.
KING DAVID
Psalms 33:5
Jesus is coming soon, morning or night or noon;
Many will meet their doom; trumpets will sound.
All of the dead shall rise; righteous meet in the skies;
Going where no one dies, heaven-ward bound.
R. E. WINSETT
"Jesus Is Coming Soon"
Some harbors have bars of sand which lie across the entrance and prohibit the access of ships at low water; Christ's righteousness is the high water that carries the believing sinner over this bar, and transmits him safe to the land of eternal rest; our own righteousness is the low water which will fail us in our greatest need, and will never leave us short of the heavenly Canaan.
H. G. SALTER
attributed, Day's Collacon