I never thought I was a bad person. I just thought I was the one good person living in a world of bad people.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
Virtue is its own revenge.
People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant. If you are righteous, then what you do will also be righteous. We should not think that holiness is based on what we do but rather on what we are, for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.
I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.
It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.
Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.
I shall say, that I feel myself virtuous, because my soul is at rest.
Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill sin in this way takes no steps toward his journey's end.
People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.
To be a successful missionary one must have the Spirit of the Lord. We are also taught that the Spirit will not dwell in unclean tabernacles. Therefore, one of the first things a missionary must do to gain spirituality is to make sure his own personal life is in order.
We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
I believe in the Bible and I try to follow the Bible. I know I'm an imperfect person … I'm not making myself an angel because I'm not an angel and I'm not a devil either. I try to be the best I can and I try to do what I think is right.
As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions.
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
True purity, however, is a direction, a persistent, determined pursuit of righteousness. This direction starts in the heart, and we express it in a lifestyle that flees opportunities for compromise.
We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.
I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.
Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.
