Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.
The most powerful teaching a child will ever receive will come from concerned and righteous fathers and mothers.
Of this you may be certain: The Lord especially loves righteous women-women who are not only faithful but filled with faith, women who are optimistic and cheerful because they know who they are and where they are going, women who are striving to live and serve as women of God.
Instead of preaching the good news that sinners can be made righteous in Christ and escape the wrath to come, the gospel has degenerated into the pretext that we can be happy in Christ and escape the hassles of life.
Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many wicked.
Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage.
When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's biography regarding God's promised experiences and truth for him - his individual, unique path of humbling oneself before the Lord and then being exalted by the Lord back into his true and righteous personhood. Many followers may speak of it merely to try to change other people (before changing themselves), but the prophets speak of it as a living word which miraculously tells their very own experiences.
The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.
We must reacquaint ourselves with the biblical weight of the problem that we less-than-perfect human beings contend with in the face of a holy and righteous God.
Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.
A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.
Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it. . . so let's stop judging people.
Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing.
What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.
If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.
Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.
A lot of people say, well how can a loving God send anyone to hell? First of all God doesn't send anyone to hell. If we go to hell, it's by our own choice. But when somebody says to me, how can a loving God allow anyone to go to hell, I'll turn around and say, "Well how can a holy, just, righteous God allow sin into His presence?"
There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency. " There is no such thing as sliding up- hill. In morals the only sliders are backsliders.
Peace is a blessing that comes to those who trust in God. It is established through individual righteousness. True personal peace comes about through eternal vigilance and constant righteous efforts.