The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed,… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I seldom get self-righteous, and even when I am being impolite (almost always on purpose - there's an art to insulting people,… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Standing on "tip toe", one stands not firmly. Straining in stride, one cannot walk far. Flaunting of deeds, one is unfavorably noticed.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
"Sinner" is a present-tense description of everyone, including those who have put their faith in Christ. Of course, those who have called… — Edward T Welch Copy Share Image
Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
He who stands on tiptoe is not steady. He who strides cannot maintain the pace. He who makes a show is not… — Laozi Copy Share Image
There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“We can not, therefore, reserve as sacred anything that is not truth and yet we cannot turn from things of truth have… — Leviak B. Kelly Copy Share Image
Today's liberal intellectuals, who pride themselves on scientific method and being “broadminded”, are the most narrow-minded, self-righteous and hate-filled bigots in the… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Clinton's egregious act of self-indulgence was outdone by an impeachment based not on constitutionally required high crimes and misdemeanors but on a… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
The best thing about Las Vegas is that no one pretends to be responsible for your behavior like they do in the… — Drew Carey 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
He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness exclaims, "I will not be saved in God's way; I will make a new road to heaven; I will not bow… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I think, that a man never passes the verge of moral humility, till self-righteousness be dethroned, till the high and towering imaginations… — Ebenezer Erskine Copy Share Image
There is fascism , leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Taking it all the way to a disciplinary procedure and talking to a national newspaper is the mark of an unusual man.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The gun-control crusade today is like the Prohibition crusade 100 years ago. It is a shared zealotry that binds the self-righteous know-it-alls… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We Protestants automatically assume that the Pharisees are the Catholics. They are the self-righteous people who have made Christianity a form of… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“Most of us probably entertain either of these attitudes on different days. On a good day (as we perceive it), we tend… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Religion poses a danger of creating division or intolerance between groups of people. However, the gospel of Jesus lead us to three… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Like all planets, I turn in my sleep, I’ve been doing it since before I was born. My body is a nightmare… — Brian Ellis Copy Share Image
“It is far kinder and smarter to show someone a better path in life than to darkly follow down their's with the… — Isabella Poretsis Copy Share Image
![“Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused” quote by Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbb/brennan-manning-959_ambiguous_whenever-i-allow-anything-but-tenderness_2805528.png)
