A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
If you are not offending some Pharisees, you are not being effective. — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Montefiore's impression of Jesus was wrong. Jesus loved the Pharisees, although He denounced them publicly. And I love the Communists, as well… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands, And justifies himself with lifted hands. Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes, Conscious… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I grew up fundamentalist, evangelical, Protestant. Those are my roots, and they are good roots. But it means the Pharisees are my… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? And Jesus… — Bible Copy Share Image
“And the Pharisees and scribes kept asking [Jesus], Why do Your disciples not order their way of living according to the tradition… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, saying, “What do you think about the Christ?” (Matt. 22:41–42)” — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
“Pharisees were the upstanding “conservative evangelical pastors” of their day, strongly convinced of the inerrancy of Scripture and its sufficiency for guidance… — Craig L. Blomberg Copy Share Image
A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness is unavoidable. You can either be a self-righteous Pharisee where you think you are better than everyone else or you can… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
To preach the Bible as 'the handbook for life,' or as the answer to every question, rather than as the revelation of… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate ‘knowledge’ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins)… — G. C. Berkouwer Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time.… — Jay Adams Copy Share Image
I get some very fierce anonymous letters about the Athanasian Creed, which would amuse you, if they were not so sad as… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
About Mahatma Gandhi: Great in taking decisions, great in executing them, Mahatma Gandhi was incomparably great in the last stand which he… — Chittaranjan Das Copy Share Image
The Talmud derives its authority from the position held by the ancient (Pharisee) academies. The teachers of those academies, both of Babylonia… — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, you will go through awful trials in your life and then a miracle happens--God heals you. Don’t be disheartened when the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
As Christ's ministry drew to its close, its severity and its gentleness both increased; its severity to the class from whom it… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
“we must not forget that people came to Christ from every kind of background and that the early Christian community included more… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The Holy Spirit did not go into such detail about the Pharisees in the New Testament just so we could understand a… — J.D. Greear Copy Share Image
But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Jesus did not spend the same amount of time with everyone. He chose twelve and spent a majority of his time with… — Rick Brown Copy Share Image
[Jews are] murderers of the Lord, assassins of the prophets, rebels against God, God haters,... advocates of the devil, race of vipers,… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
“I think most decent people would be horrified at what happens today, even in our enlightened country. There are still mean, self-righteous… — Joseph F. Girzone Copy Share Image
We must stop using the Bible as though it were a potpourri of inerrant proof-texts by which we can bring people into… — Robert D. Brinsmead Copy Share Image
The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees,… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The Bible in itself is not the Word of God. The Word of God is a person. Neither does the Bible have… — Robert D. Brinsmead Copy Share Image