Self Righteousness Quotes
78 quotes by 63 authors
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Most soulish believers assume an attitude of self-righteousness, though often it is scarcely detectable. They hold tenaciously to their minute opinions we ought to lay…
— Watchman Nee
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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 all false religion…
— John Owen
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When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous…
— Erwin W. Lutzer
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A trustworthy marriage has weathered temptation and anger and jealousy, resentment, self-righteousness and a little bit of selfishness. When you get over and get through…
— Ruby Dee
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The Prophet Joseph Smith warned us to ‘beware of self-righteousness’ and to enlarge our hearts toward all men and women until we feel ‘to take…
— Neil L. Andersen
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But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too delighted to find…
— Herbert Butterfield
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Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.
— Timothy Keller
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Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.
— R. Kent Hughes
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The self-righteous never apologize.
— Leonard Ravenhill
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No one will ever go to Hell who has put his trust in Jesus Christ, but many will end up in torment who have trusted…
— Curtis Hutson
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In spinning a robe of your own righteousness, before the sun goes down you will find it all unraveled.
— Curtis Hutson
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I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity or of religion…
— David Bentley Hart
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I would encourage them never to forget that they were not always vegans. The self-righteousness of the recently converted hurts, it does not help, other…
— Tom Regan
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We were greeted by the minister whose inclusive, non-judgemental smile was no more than a whisker away from a smirk. Have I made it clear?…
— Jenny Diski
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Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.
— Elyse Fitzpatrick
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Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.
— George Friedman
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You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for…
— Eric Hoffer
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Cultivate humility it is the way of connectedness. Beware of false humility it leads to self-righteousness.
— Arthur Dobrin
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Our sin is what separates us from God, but it's our self righteousness that keeps us from running to Him for the grace He willingly…
— Paul David Tripp
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