Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“There was one thing unforgivable, like things in the schoolroom so bad that only Mommy could deal with, to set up a… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves. — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
“Narcissists often feign oppression because narcissists always feel entitled.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
This revelation is the death of ignorance. Tangled in a state of suffocation. Slave to self righteousness. Damnation is on your lips. — Killswitch Engage Copy Share Image
Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I am not perfect, but if I looked perfect to everyone I must have been rocking imperfect perfectly to a few imperfect… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A trustworthy marriage has weathered temptation and anger and jealousy, resentment, self-righteousness and a little bit of selfishness. When you get over… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
The self-righteousness and other ego-puffery that makes missionaries and evangelists out of Christians is in truth a measure of how far they… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Saviour, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
No one listens willingly to someone who speaks to them from a position of self-righteousness and judgment. Again and again in the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
No wonder if such persons look upon imputed righteousness as the shadow of a dream, who esteem those things which evidence its… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“The Law dispels all self-illusions. It puts the fear of God in a man. Without this fear there can be no thirst… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Rather than experiencing the richness of a dynamic, intimate relationship with the righteous One, you put God in a little box that… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
“Let a prejudice be bequeathed, carried in the air, adopted by hearsay, caught in through the eye,–however it may come, these minds… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a little applied over all your scruples… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It’s hard for most of us to admit, but when you start paying attention you’ll notice that you actually enjoy being angry.… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“He had seen often enough the wilful truncation people undertook upon leaving childhood (and the wonder of its endless possibilities), as if… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Mother Teresa's missionaries were able to embrace people—complete with all sorts of weaknesses, failures, foibles, strengths, and faiths—and work with them wholeheartedly.… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
“We sometimes hurt those we love because they need to be “taught a lesson,” when we really want to punish. We were… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Clara shrugged and immediately knew her betrayal of Peter. In one easy movement she'd distanced herself from his bad behavior, even thought… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“The battlefield is symbolic of the field of life, where every creature lives on the death of another. A realization of the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible. And perhaps we are responsible even for… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Yet what moved Our Blessed Lord to invective was not badness but just such self-righteousness as this…He said that the harlots and… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
