When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification. — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“For God's sake, Larry, grow up. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a… — Stephen King 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
We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you… — Eric Hoffer 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
If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the… — Thomas Paine 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
Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
For godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce Himself in… — W. Ian Thomas Copy Share Image
“think they are always right are always ready to judge those they perceive to be wrong!” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“You have to be careful what you write and not allow self righteousness to cloud your ability to be objective. This story… — Crystal Evans Copy Share Image
“Author compares the impact of biases to his experience as an average swimmer who overcame a considerable fear of water. While the… — Shankar Vedantam 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
“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
People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of… — John Owen 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
When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates… — Erwin W. Lutzer 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
