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Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit. -- Robert Barclay
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
Satan understands the power of men and women united in righteousness. He is still stinging from his banishment into eternal exile after Michael led the hosts of heaven, comprised of valiant men and women united in the cause of Christ, against him. -- Sheri L. Dew
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
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
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
My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward attaining my own freedom, meaning, value, worth, and righteousness - not believing that, by virtue of my Spirit - wrought union with Christ, everything I need, I already possess. -- Tullian Tchividjian
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
Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge. -- Martin Luther
An humble soul looks upon Christ's righteousness as his only crown. -- Thomas Brooks
Our works do not generate righteousness, rather our righteousness in Christ generates works. -- Martin Luther
Faith is the means by which the righteousness of Christ is given to us. -- R. C. Sproul
The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ. -- R. C. Sproul
The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ. -- R. C. Sproul
Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none. -- Timothy Keller
May we be faithful followers of Christ, examples of righteousness, thus becoming lights in the world. -- Thomas S. Monson
A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith. -- Jonathan Edwards
Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ. -- Charles Spurgeon
Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt -- Charles Spurgeon
I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ. -- John Nelson Darby
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At the cross, the worst about us-our sins-was laid upon Christ, and the best about Him-His righteousness-was laid upon us. -- Steven J Lawson
The Law saith, Where is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction? The Gospel saith, Christ is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction. -- Patrick Hamilton
We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness. -- R. C. Sproul
We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own. -- John Calvin
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
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.
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. -- John Bunyan
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
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. -- John Calvin
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
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
The righteousness which is by faith in Christ is a loving heart and a loving life, which every man will long to lead who believes really in Jesus Christ. -- Charles Kingsley
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
No work nor deed of ours whatsoever, no not faith itself, can be the condition of the covenant of grace properly so called; but only Christ's fulfilling all righteousness. -- Thomas Boston

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