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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

But why should he be open-minded when he thinks he's right? — Johnny Rich

Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves. — Thomas Adams

Bradish had never had any occasion to experience self-righteousness other than the self-righteousness of the sinner. — John Cheever

You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sorts of reasons. You've got to at least understand. — Sarah Dunn

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

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility. — Barry Eisler

Though there is no evil in righteousness, there is in self-righteousness, — David Pietrusza

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

Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins. — J.C. Ryle

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 easy
also cheap, — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good. — Criss Jami

Self-righteousness, when you think about it, is a contra-indicator of self-esteem. It's what sets in when genuine righteousness eludes us. — Meghan Daum

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

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us. — Eric Hoffer

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

... there is nothing so tedious like the self-righteousness of a young man. — Arthur Hailey

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

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge. — J.C. Ryle

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

His self-righteousness has prevented him from enjoying the grace all around him. — Justin Buzzard

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

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others. — Max Frisch

Self-righteousness can feed upon doctrines - as well as upon works! — John Newton

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

But there is not one management course in the world where they recommend Self-Righteousness as a tool. — Tina Fey

Righteousness gives strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness. — Gangaji

It was a particular sort of Turner weakness: self-sabotaging self-righteousness masked as self-reliance. — Angela Flournoy

I try to remember what I have too often forgotten to my peril: as far as teaching goes, when all you are is right, what you really are is in trouble. — Garret Keizer

Cultivate humility it is the way of connectedness. Beware of false humility it leads to self-righteousness. — Arthur Dobrin

There was one thing unforgivable, like things in the schoolroom so bad that only Mommy could deal with, to set up a rival good to God's. — Evelyn Waugh

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

They strain over gnats and swallow camels. They also cannibalize each other for power. — Mike Duran

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

Perhaps you confuse virtue and convention, gentlemen. Conventionality is not morality, and self-righteousness is not religion. — Juliet Gael