“While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
A breakdown in this capacityto praise and respect others can lead to inflexibility and self-righteousness. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“For a man who professed to love God, he was filled with the vinegar of hatred and self-righteousness.” — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
“There is grace for the unrighteous and the self-righteous alike, and the father loves both sons well.” — Justin Buzzard Copy Share Image
“Beware the self-righteous man, for he will destroy the world many times over before he sees his folly.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Despite all claims to the contrary, we have not been called by God to be inspectors of others production or quality of… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I am not perfect, but if I looked perfect to everyone I must have been rocking imperfect perfectly to a few imperfect… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
A trustworthy marriage has weathered temptation and anger and jealousy, resentment, self-righteousness and a little bit of selfishness. When you get over… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches--and even, with the best intentions, from us - can push them toward pride or… — Phil Vischer Copy Share Image
Frankly, liberals are out of the habit of communicating with anyone outside their own in cohort. We have a cultural problem with… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Legalism is when we try to obtain the result of obedience by our own means and strength. It is self-righteousness, as opposed… — Kelly Minter 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
“The law of the Spirit is the liberating force of life in Christ. This leaves me with no further obligation to the… — François Du Toit Copy Share Image
“We all have different perspectives to life. We all do take different decisions in life each day based on our convictions. We… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such… — Azar Nafisi 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
Morality, in and of itself, is a damning thing. Self-righteousness is a damning thing. You'd be better off to be immoral and… — John Macarthur 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
“If there was a common thread between the great warriors and runaways of my Hulkinov ancestors, and my father the pathological expatriate,… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“... there is nothing so tedious like the self-righteousness of a young man.” — Arthur Hailey Copy Share Image
Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Though there is no evil in righteousness, there is in self-righteousness,” — David Pietrusza Copy Share Image
True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of… — Gangaji 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
If we think we are usually good, then God is usually irrelevant... Such thinking ignores the depths of sin in my own… — Edward T Welch Copy Share Image
“Our membership in this Church . . . should never be any cause for self-righteousness, for arrogance, for denigration of others, for… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine… — Emma Goldman 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
“Sophie Kruger had worked in a house herself, up in Middle Swan. But now she pretended she was quality. There were none… — Sandra Dallas Copy Share Image
“I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace… — Anonymous 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 Prophet Joseph Smith warned us to ‘beware of self-righteousness’ and to enlarge our hearts toward all men and women until we… — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
