Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.” — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair. — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Will you rise or become a slave to self righteousness. Open up your heart and gaze within. — Killswitch Engage Copy Share Image
“For a man who professed to love God, he was filled with the vinegar of hatred and self-righteousness.” — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion...Appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines that only tend to elate… — Currer Bell Copy Share Image
A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Common sense is our seventh sense that is guiding our personality. It embraces all other secured senses growing in the shadow of… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from… — J. C. Ryle 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
“When in Reading Gaol he told me that the warders in the dock had been gentle and kind, but the visit of… — Charles Ricketts Copy Share Image
“I try to remember what I have too often forgotten to my peril: as far as teaching goes, when all you are… — Garret Keizer Copy Share Image
“Piety /pi•e•ty/ (modern definition) 1. When you use Christ’s teachings to put someone in their place out of anger and self-righteousness. It… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
So when we call pain a problem, we claim we do not deserve it. We are even prepared to scuttle God to… — John Gerstner Copy Share Image
The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Like Muslims we assume that God will judge us "on balance." If our good deeds outweigh our bad deeds, we will arrive… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Human self-righteousness denies the need for the saving, enabling grace of Christ. Human righteousness embraces the cruelest of Satan's lies, that a… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“The main difference is that the enlightened believe that the poor criminal should be rehabilitated while the righteous believe that the immoral… — William Ryan Copy Share Image
The saints are sinners still. Our best tears need to be wept over, the strongest faith is mixed with unbelief, our most… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Come away, my dear brethren, fly, fly, fly for your lives to Jesus Christ; fly to a bleeding God, fly to a… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
A breakdown in this capacityto praise and respect others can lead to inflexibility and self-righteousness. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Many have passed the rocks of gross sins - who have suffered shipwreck upon the sands of self-righteousness. — William Secker Copy Share Image
The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“His self-righteousness has prevented him from enjoying the grace all around him.” — Justin Buzzard Copy Share Image
“They strain over gnats and swallow camels. They also cannibalize each other for power.” — Mike Duran Copy Share Image
“I reckon it does take a powerful trust in the Lord to guard a fellow, though sometimes I think that Cora’s a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Too many of us focus on the outward structure of character and conduct without taking the time to build the inward foundation… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Most soulish believers assume an attitude of self-righteousness, though often it is scarcely detectable. They hold tenaciously to their minute opinions we… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“Some people looove to feel offended because it makes them feel important. When your only tool is a hammer, suddenly every problem… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“The long tradition of naiveté and self-righteousness that disfigures our intellectual history, however, must serve as a warning to the third world,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“To be specific, the self-sins are these: self-righteousness, self-pity, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-admiration, self-love and a host of others like them” — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“At a moment when we must face too much self-righteousness and narcissism on our path, it is a soothing relief for our… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
