Self Righteousness Quotes

78 Self Righteousness quotes by 61 unique authors

No one listens willingly to someone who speaks to them from a position of self-righteousness and judgment. Again and again in the Gospels, Jesus reserves… — Pope Francis
Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. — B. H. Liddell Hart
Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine… — Susan Neiman
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. — Charles Spurgeon
Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. — Tullian Tchividjian
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and… — Azar Nafisi
If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but… — C.S. Lewis
The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that nothing is anybody's… — P.J. O'Rourke
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. — Charlotte Bronte
If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been… — George Orwell
It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of religious self-righteousness this article deplores… — Marilynne Robinson
People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market.… — Tana French
The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The subtlety of Satan… — Jonathan Edwards
To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known… — Timothy Keller
We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for… — Steven Pinker
Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap, — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be… — Francis John McConnell
Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God! — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness. — Eric Hoffer
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us. — Eric Hoffer

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