Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments. — Reinhold Niebuhr 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
“Some people think they are always right; they are always ready to judge those who they see as wrong!” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“She, if anyone, was on a hell-bound train. I mean, if you're masquerading as a do-gooder, why not go all the way?” — Michael Lee West Copy Share Image
“Verily, great self-righteousness and great blindness are needed to call the gore pouring from the scaffold justice. Vysogota of Corvo” — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
“I suspect Dr. Robert L. Webb may be theologically a 'hyper-Calvinist' of the Jesse Mercer persuasion." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]” — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
“Despite all claims to the contrary, we have not been called by God to be inspectors of others production or quality of… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the study of history is cheaper than the exercise of unearned self-righteousness that derives from nothing more virtuous than ordinary… — Edwin Yoder Copy Share Image
“There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul.” — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
Stop being so sure that you are always right, and others wrong. Don't trust your own opinion, when you find it contrary… — JC Ryle Copy Share Image
Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“You will never overcome your self righteousness if you continue to believe that God prefers you over other people. The moment you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes,… — Dale E Turner 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
“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
“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
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 problem with self righteousness is that it seems almost impossible to recognize in ourselves. We will own up to almost any… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“Faith should be a tool to set us free, not a means to fuel a fascist agenda seeking to impede the civil… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
“The emphasis and the reason for a pure humility is to result in love for others; not always necessarily the belittlement of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“God told us to love everyone. However, when you don’t like someone then you need to walk away and focus not on… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“You can't fight mental health bias if you label people based on a lists of symptoms and you have no medical degree… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“In some countries, the strictly Progressive man reveals himself to be just as much as if not more prejudiced than the typical… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Beware the self-righteous man, for he will destroy the world many times over before he sees his folly.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
“There is grace for the unrighteous and the self-righteous alike, and the father loves both sons well.” — Justin Buzzard Copy Share Image
Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“... there is nothing so tedious like the self-righteousness of a young man.” — Arthur Hailey Copy Share Image
But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
“Though there is no evil in righteousness, there is in self-righteousness,” — David Pietrusza Copy Share Image