But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“I don't like self-righteous people," I say. "What's to like?" says Haymitch.” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The church should not be an assembly of the self-righteous but an assembly of people who admit that they are not righteous… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The Republicans have a high Beady-Eyed Self-Righteous Scary Borderline Loon Quotient, as evidenced by Phyllis Schlafly, Pat Robertson, the entire state of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
...Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“The book of Jonah is one of the shortest books in the Bible. Yet, something beneath the surface whispers to us, hinting… — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image
The reason people hate America is because they don't like being treated like garbage by arrogant, pompous, hypocritical, self-righteous, duplicitous, imperialist political… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be… — Stephen Levine 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
I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I do not stand here before you as a self-righteous saint who has achieved spiritual perfection, but as a sinner who has… — Thomas J. Paprocki Copy Share Image
“...there are a lot of self-righteous people out there. And if you try to adjust your life to please them...you're just going… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
To those who feel that their values are THE values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotions or Sunday church. His ministry was… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance,… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness…is the largest idol of the human heart - the idol which man loves most and God hates most. Dearly beloved, you… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
“I have spoken to many parents who feared they were producing little hypocrites who were proud and self-righteous. Hypocrisy and self-righteousness is… — Tedd Tripp Copy Share Image
Come all you mad and raging fearless friends of war and peace, Come all you sad self-righteous frightened friends down on your… — Butch Hancock 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
“It's interesting to speculate on the reasons that make men so anxious to debase themselves. As in that idea of feeling small… — ayn rand Copy Share Image
“Some people say, “Once you learn to be happy, you won't tolerate being around people who make you feel anything less.” My… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“If any of you are giving yourselves such proud airs, listen to me for a little while. You will be lost, as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from… — James Crumley Copy Share Image
“All of us - all who knew her - felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“I have always found the hardest mind to change is one that is religious.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image