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
“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
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
It happens over and over again—a group of people come together, fired up with passion to create change. They begin with huge… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter with the… — Brennan Manning 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
“I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any… — Gillian Flynn 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
Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Jesus expressed intense anger toward those who where immoral, such as the self-righteous Pharisees, but he never suggested that they were demonized.… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean… — Joseph Sobran 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
When are you people going to learn? It's not about who's right or wrong. No denomination's nailed it yet, because they're all… — Kevin Smith 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 ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the… — Paul Goodman 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
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
Are you a censor? Do you tell people not to say “girl”? Shame on you! If nothing offends you, you’re a saint… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
A person who seeks for sense of gratitude from others is the person who doesnt know how to apply it to his… — Amy Pulumbarit 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
Goldilocks [There] lived a family of bearstogether anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a nuclear family. They were very sorry about this,… — James Finn Garner 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
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
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
We often think more highly of ourselves than we ought to, and it's easy to judge others and be critical of their… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
I have characterized Ross as exemplifying an extreme position among theistic scientists. However, he is not so extreme as to promote the… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image