A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“There was one thing unforgivable, like things in the schoolroom so bad that only Mommy could deal with, to set up a… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“But there is not one management course in the world where they recommend Self-Righteousness as a tool.” — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Cultivate humility it is the way of connectedness. Beware of false humility it leads to self-righteousness. — Arthur Dobrin Copy Share Image
When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification. — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism. — R. Kent Hughes Copy Share Image
“Piety /pi•e•ty/ (modern definition) 1. When you use Christ’s teachings to put someone in their place out of anger and self-righteousness. It… — Shannon L. Alder 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
“I try to remember what I have too often forgotten to my peril: as far as teaching goes, when all you are… — Garret Keizer Copy Share Image
“When in Reading Gaol he told me that the warders in the dock had been gentle and kind, but the visit of… — Charles Ricketts Copy Share Image
“Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a little applied over all your scruples… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
“Some people looove to feel offended because it makes them feel important. When your only tool is a hammer, suddenly every problem… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“The line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern. The man who stands before a crowd and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Human self-righteousness denies the need for the saving, enabling grace of Christ. Human righteousness embraces the cruelest of Satan's lies, that a… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“The main difference is that the enlightened believe that the poor criminal should be rehabilitated while the righteous believe that the immoral… — William Ryan Copy Share Image
“People who’ve Been to Hell and Back develop a certain sort of self-righteousness. There is a tendency to say: I have an… — Marya Hornbacher 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
“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
Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's… — Jim Wright Copy Share Image
Jesus is not your accuser. He’s not your prosecutor. He’s not your judge. He’s your friend and your rescuer. Like Zacchaeus, just… — Judah Smith Copy Share Image
Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God! — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
Self-complacency leads to self-righteousness. Let us realize that we are all sinners, and ask God for forgiveness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. — Robert Hutchinson 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
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 Copy Share Image
“Many who have escaped the rocks of gross sin have been cast away on the sands of self-righteousness.” — Augustus M. Toplady Copy Share Image
Most soulish believers assume an attitude of self-righteousness, though often it is scarcely detectable. They hold tenaciously to their minute opinions we… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes,… — Dale E Turner Copy Share Image
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion...Appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines that only tend to elate… — Currer Bell Copy Share Image
“You will never overcome your self righteousness if you continue to believe that God prefers you over other people. The moment you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“Common sense is our seventh sense that is guiding our personality. It embraces all other secured senses growing in the shadow of… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
“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 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
