righteousness

The Lord Christ is my righteousness, my whole and perfect righteousness

—George Whitefield

Christ is perfectly and completely applied to the soul in the first act for righteousness.

—John Flavel

“You are not to seek your own selfish ends, or the aggrandizement of a party, but to promote the general good, and the interests of truth, righteousness, peace, and purity.”

Charles Spurgeon

Oh quicken me in thy righteousness. Give me all holy affections in their just measure of vigour and force.

—William Wilberforce

Preach the truth as it is in Jesus. Not a righteousness or inward holiness of our own, whereby we may make ourselves meet, but a righteousness of another, even the Lord our righteousness

—George Whitefield

My Lord has given me a sling and a stone; stripling as I am, I will go forth then in his strength, make mention of his righteousness only, and by that lay prostrate many *Goliaths*.

—George Whitefield

If, in the righteousness, the goodness, the love, the mercy, the all-sufficiency of God, there be any thing that will do us good, the Lord Jesus is fully interested with the dispensing of it in our behalf.

—John Owen

If, in the righteousness, the goodness, the love, the mercy, the all-sufficiency of God, there be any thing that will do us good, the Lord Jesus is fully interested with the dispensing of it in our behalf.

—John Owen

Spiritual acts for tyrants are worse than bodily ones. A thief will be pardoned sooner than a righteous man who is strong in spirit.

—Hryhorii Skovoroda

All that can stand in competition with him for our affections, must be our own endeavours for a righteousness to commend us to God.

—John Owen

There’s no salvation for a person who’s certain of his righteousness. If someone points out his sins he only gets angry and commits a new one.

—Leo Tolstoy

One more, I exhort you that fear God and work righteousness, you that are servants of God.

—John Wesley

To complete the happiness of the redeemed; Christ is not only made of God unto them wisdom and righteousness, the one curing our ignorance, the other our guilt; but he is made sanctification also, to relieve us against the dominion and pollutions of our corruptions.

—John Flavel

For never was any wound healed by a prepared, but unapplied plaster. Nor was it ever known, that a poor deceived, condemned sinner, was actually delivered out of that woeful state, until of God, Christ was made unto him, wisdom and righteousness, sanctification and redemption.

—John Flavel

We could no more earn a place in the heart of the Father than we could satisfy the claims of the righteous Judge. All is of free grace.

—D. L. Moody

See that you build upon nothing below Christ! See that you have a real interest in Christ. See that you die daily to sin, to the world, and to your own righteousness.

Thomas Brooks

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

—Blaise Pascal

*The saints delight in Christ*; he is their joy, their crown, their rejoicing, their life, food, health, strength, desire, righteousness, salvation, blessedness: without him they have nothing; in him they shall find all things.

—John Owen

The law can bring forth no righteousness, no obedience; it is weak to any such purpose, by reason of the flesh, and that corruption that is come on us.

—John Owen

God hath set him forth to declare his righteousness for the forgiveness of sin; he hath made way in him for ever to exalt the glory of his pardoning mercy to sinners.

—John Owen

Give GOD your hearts, your whole hearts; let JESUS CHRIST’s be your whole wisdom, your whole righteousness; and then he will be your whole sanctification and eternal redemption.

—George Whitefield

Self righteousness can feed upon doctrines, as well as upon works; and a man may have the heart of a Pharisee, while his head is stored with orthodox notions of the unworthiness of the creature, and the riches of free grace.

—John Newton

Self righteousness can feed upon doctrines, as well as upon works; and a man may have the heart of a Pharisee, while his head is stored with orthodox notions of the unworthiness of the creature, and the riches of free grace.

—John Newton

But, by the law of faith, faith is allowed to supply the defect of full obedience: and so the believers are admitted to life and immortality, as if they were righteous.

—John Locke

It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

—Nikolai Gogol