Self righteousness Quotes

“Put that in your self-righteous pipe and smoke it!!!.”

— R. Alan Woods

God has nothing to say to the self-righteous.

— Dwight L. Moody

“Only God is in a position to look down upon someone.”

— Habeeb Akande

Self-righteousness and self-pity both lead to self-destruction.

— Tasneem Hameed

“It's time to climb off our high horses and step into the shit.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

“Sometimes it's hard to believe what we really are.”

— Riyadh Razzaq

God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master.

— Laurence Overmire

“She, if anyone, was on a hell-bound train. I mean, if you're masquerading as a do-gooder, why not go all the way?”

— Michael Lee West

“Some people think they are always right; they are always ready to judge those who they see as wrong!”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.

— Tullian Tchividjian

“Verily, great self-righteousness and great blindness are needed to call the gore pouring from the scaffold justice. Vysogota of Corvo”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

“I suspect Dr. Robert L. Webb may be theologically a 'hyper-Calvinist' of the Jesse Mercer persuasion." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]”

— R. Alan Woods

“think they are always right are always ready to judge those they perceive to be wrong!”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Many who have escaped the rocks of gross sin have been cast away on the sands of self-righteousness.”

— Augustus M. Toplady

There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul.”

— R. Alan Woods

Stop being so sure that you are always right, and others wrong. Don't trust your own opinion, when you find it contrary…

— JC Ryle

Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead…

— Susan Neiman

Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.

— Charles Spurgeon

“When we forgive out of the shame of being an idiot and in the joy of being forgiven ourselves, this severs the…

— Dick Brogden

“Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the…

— Thomas Paine

“Nothing in the study of history is cheaper than the exercise of unearned self-righteousness that derives from nothing more virtuous than ordinary…

— Edwin Yoder

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too…

— Herbert Butterfield

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

“The problem with self righteousness is that it seems almost impossible to recognize in ourselves. We will own up to almost any…

— Jerry Bridges

The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but…

— Dean Koontz

So when we call pain a problem, we claim we do not deserve it. We are even prepared to scuttle God to…

— John Gerstner

The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The…

— Jonathan Edwards

“Faith should be a tool to set us free, not a means to fuel a fascist agenda seeking to impede the civil…

— Cristina Marrero

Come away, my dear brethren, fly, fly, fly for your lives to Jesus Christ; fly to a bleeding God, fly to a…

— George Whitefield

The saints are sinners still. Our best tears need to be wept over, the strongest faith is mixed with unbelief, our most…

— Charles Spurgeon

“People that hold onto hate for so long do so because they want to avoid dealing with their pain. They falsely believe…

— Shannon L. Alder

“Self-reliance and independence can transform into selfishness and license, ambition into greed and a frantic desire to succeed at any cost. More…

— Barack Obama

“But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible. And perhaps we are responsible even for…

— Bernhard Schlink

The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first…

— Martin Luther

“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

“We sometimes hurt those we love because they need to be “taught a lesson,” when we really want to punish. We were…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“Mother Teresa's missionaries were able to embrace people—complete with all sorts of weaknesses, failures, foibles, strengths, and faiths—and work with them wholeheartedly.…

— Eric Greitens

“Clara shrugged and immediately knew her betrayal of Peter. In one easy movement she'd distanced herself from his bad behavior, even thought…

— Louise Penny