RIGHTEOUSNESS

Related Subjects: Bigotry, Morality, Religion, Salvation, Self-Righteousness, Virtue

1. Some people are so painfully good that they would rather be right than be pleasant.—L. C. BALL
   

2. One that feared God, and eschewed evil.—Bible, Job 1:1
   

3. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.—Bible, Psalms 51:10
   

4. A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.—Bible, Psalms 84:10
   

5. The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.—Bible, Psalms 92:12
   

6. Righteousness exalteth a nation.—Bible, Proverbs 14:34
   

7. Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way.—Bible, Matthew 7:14
   

8. The quest for righteousness is Oriental, the quest for knowledge, Occidental.—SIR WILLIAM OSLER, Life of Sir William Osler
   

9. The righteous find peace, when the wicked feel torment.—Proverb