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Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have. -- Tullian Tchividjian
This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom. -- Thomas Traherne
My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning. -- James Otis
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. -- Stephen Marley
Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical. -- Tullian Tchividjian
The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall. -- George Whitefield
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. -- Beverly Sills
The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people. -- Charles L. Allen
All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God. -- Charles Spurgeon
The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference. -- David Jeremiah
Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail. -- Sheri L. Dew
Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations? -- Tony Campolo
In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in my view, God comes at the end of this long process. This may not happen in our lifetimes or even in the lifetime of our species. -- Martin Seligman
God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute. -- John Piper
If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth, and we should be as children of one father, and should need no law or ordinance. For God is not served by any law, but only by obedience. -- Jakob Bohme
We Protestants automatically assume that the Pharisees are the Catholics. They are the self-righteous people who have made Christianity a form of legalistic religion, thereby destroying the free grace of the Gospel. We Protestants are the tax collectors, knowing that we are sinners and that our lives depend upon God's free grace. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Noah walked with God; he didn't only preach righteousness, he acted it. He went through water and didn't melt. He breasted the current of the popular opinion of his day, scorning alike the hatred and ridicule of the scoffers who mocked at the thought of there being but one way of salvation. -- Charles Studd
Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to God is a child of God and belongs to Him. And in Christ, we are made right with God, we are His righteousness, and we have the power of Christ in us to live right. -- Joyce Meyer
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. -- John Wycliffe
God's wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness. -- J. I. Packer
Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. -- Manny Pacquiao
Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God. -- Vance Havner
God holds his people responsible for righteousness, not for results. -- Beth Moore
God will begin to prosper you, for money always follows righteousness. -- Benny Hinn
Devotion to God, righteousness and wisdom, will keep us safe on earth. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith is a gift of God bestowed as a reward for personal righteousness. -- Bruce R. McConkie
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself. -- Benjamin Whichcote
Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God! -- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man. -- Isaac Newton
Your fellowship with God never came because of your righteousness. So how could your own righteousness maintain it? -- Chris Oyakhilome
Righteousness and generosity are inseparable. The person whose heart longs for God also longs to give to others. -- Dillon Burroughs
The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him. -- Wendell Phillips
A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith. -- Jonathan Edwards
I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ. -- John Nelson Darby
the paradox is that God must destroy in us, all illusions of righteousness before he can make us righteous -- Martin Luther
Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin. -- Tullian Tchividjian
I pledged to work for righteousness. God's given me inspiration. God's the boss, he tell me what to do. -- Bob Marley
Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair. -- Elyse Fitzpatrick
God never alters the robe of righteousness to fit the man. Rather He alters the man to fit the robe. -- John Hagee
Before Allah nothing of our material existence impresses Allah. It is our righteousness and our uprightness alone that impresses God. -- Louis Farrakhan
Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power. -- Kevin W. Pearson
Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws. -- R.J. Rushdoony
But the LORD Almighty will be exalted by his justice, and the holy God will show himself holy by his righteousness. -- Isaiah
To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God. -- Smith Wigglesworth
God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either. -- Martin Luther
A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good. -- Timothy Keller
The Bible says, "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost" -- Chris Oyakhilome
Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in moving mountains - if moving mountains accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will. -- David A. Bednar
Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God. -- Saint Augustine
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. -- David Jeremiah
He that serves God is resigned up into him, and in all things has respect to truth and righteousness, and will promote that. -- Jakob Bohme
Christ's atonement fully satisfied the demands of God's righteousness, so forgiveness and mercy are guaranteed to those who receive Christ in humble, repentant faith. -- John F. MacArthur Jr.
When you get honest with God, you can exchange the fig leaves you used to cover your sin with the righteousness of Jesus Christ. -- Johnny Hunt
For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity. I acknowledge no other God but the one God of truth and righteousness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God. -- Clement of Alexandria
When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
God will restore his planet and his children to their Garden of Eden splendor. It'll be perfect. Perfect in grandeur. Perfect in righteousness. Perfect in harmony. -- Max Lucado
Man's want of original righteousness and of holy affections toward God, and the corruption of his moral nature and his bias toward evil is called depravity -- Henry Clarence Thiessen
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. -- Johnny Hunt
I thank God and His Son, Jesus Christ, for the Restoration and its power to propel a magnificent wave of truth and righteousness across the earth. -- Russell M. Nelson
Peter's faith had many a shaking, but it was established upon the truth of his God, upon the person and work and righteousness of Jesus Christ. -- E. W. Bullinger
The gift of being able to speak with a holy God because of the righteousness we gain through Jesus on the cross is an indescribable miracle! -- Alisa Hope Wagner
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. -- Walter Savage Landor
Any moment you're willing to give up your fig leaves, which you think are covering you, God will give you His righteousness, which will really cover you. -- Johnny Hunt
The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God. -- John Piper
Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness. -- John Calvin
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. -- Martin Luther
No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness. -- Spencer W. Kimball
The true Gospel of Jesus Christ is a revelation of how God has taken sinful man and made him a new creature and imparted to him a perfect righteousness. -- John Osteen
It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them. -- Marilynne Robinson
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. -- Joseph Prince
During the tribulation there will be a national turning of Israel to the Lord; they will walk in righteousness. ... God established an everlasting covenant with Israel and it will be of everlasting duration. -- Paul P. Enns

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