Self Righteousness Quotes
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Self Righteousness Quotes & Sayings
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Put that in your self-righteous pipe and smoke it!!!.
— R. Alan Woods
Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
Bradish had never had any occasion to experience self-righteousness other than the self-righteousness of the sinner.
— John Cheever
Divine self is holy being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.
— Tullian Tchividjian
You're not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through you like cellophane.
— Rebecca McNutt
I suspect Dr. Robert L. Webb may be theologically a 'hyper-Calvinist' of the Jesse Mercer persuasion."~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods
But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern
— Dean Koontz
Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.
— Eric Hoffer
When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.
— Paul David Tripp
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.
— John Stuart Mill
Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.
— Pema Chodron
Only God is in a position to look down upon someone.
— Habeeb Akande
Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.
— Bertrand Russell
Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.
— Timothy Keller
Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.
— Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.
— N. T. Wright
A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.
— R. Kent Hughes
Self righteousness belongs to narrow-minded.
— Toba Beta
Self-righteousness in retrospect is easyalso cheap, — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
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
The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
— Charlotte Bronte
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
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
— Benjamin Whichcote
The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.
— Stephen Richards
We can love and do righteous acts only by grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
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
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
— John McCarthy
The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.
— Stephen L. Carter
Self-righteousness is always self-condemnatory. And self-righteousness is the preserve of the moralist.
— Timothy Keller
There is grace for the unrighteous and the self-righteous alike, and the father loves both sons well.
— Justin Buzzard
Nothing clears out self-righteousness better than serving someone who is critical of you.
— Paul E. Miller
One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments.
— Swami Vivekananda
It is a strange kind of fire, the fire of self-righteousness, which gives us such pleasure by its warmth but does so little to banish the darkness.
— Ben H. Winters
Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance.
— Eugene H. Peterson
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
— Robert Hutchison
Righteousness gives strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It was a particular sort of Turner weakness: self-sabotaging self-righteousness masked as self-reliance.
— Angela Flournoy
Cultivate humility it is the way of connectedness. Beware of false humility it leads to self-righteousness.
— Arthur Dobrin
There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.
— Eric Hoffer
It's time to climb off our high horses and step into the shit.
— Brian K. Vaughan
Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Salvation is not just repairing the original self. It is a new self created of God in righteousness and true holiness.
— Billy Graham
Confession is the giving up of ALL self-righteousness.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable.
— Richard Dawkins
Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The defense mechanisms of The Imposter are: sarcasm, name-dropping, self-righteousness, the need to impress others and the need for others' approval.
— Manning Brennan
Despite all claims to the contrary, we have not been called by God to be inspectors of others production or quality of 'fruit'.
— R. Alan Woods
The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.
— Tullian Tchividjian
