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When you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous.

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.

Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.

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.

Self-righteousness, when you think about it, is a contra-indicator of self-esteem. It's what sets in when genuine righteousness eludes us.

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

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.

Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.