Quotes About Self-righteousness

We become like those pious people who, over time, accumulate a sense of their own virtuousness so powerful as to make them believe the bad things they do are virtuous too.

I think most decent people would be horrified at what happens today, even in our enlightened country. There are still mean, self-righteous Pharisees, who have a sick need to punish others whose troubled lives they can never begin to understand, much less feel compassion for.

ONI technology is also going to save hundreds of millions of lives," I say self-righteously. "By preventing the spread of all sorts of infectious diseases—like the flu pandemic

Because he refused to take himself seriously and decided to take God seriously, Barth burdened neither himself nor those around him with the gloomy, heavy seriousness of ambition or pride or sin or self-righteousness. Instead, the lifting up of hands, the brightness of blessing.

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.

As a journalist, I know what it is like to incur the self-righteous wrath of people who denounce you for things you didn't say or didn't mean.

La gente que dice ser malvada no suele ser peor que el resto de nosotros -suspiró-. Pero la gente que dice ser buena, o mejor que los demás en algún aspecto, esa gente sí que es peligrosa.

Many of these ex-Communists came to agree with the British editor of The God That Failed that "no one who has not wrestled with Communism as a philosophy and Communists as political opponents can really understand the value of Western democracy. The Devil once lived in Heaven, and those who have not met him are unlikely to recognize an angel when they see one."98 This self-image helps to explain the sense of mission and self-righteousness exhibited by so many ex-Communists.

Life had stopped for her a long time ago. She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in her life and no concept of the fact that she could be wrong. She delivered her care of her insane patients in a killing manner, but she was convinced she was right.

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

Self-righteous and entitled but they swearin' on the Bible that they love you When really they no different from all your rivals.

Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .

We, like Paul, are aware of two things: We are great sinners and we need a great savior. We, like Peter, are aware of two facts: We are going down and God is standing up. So we … leave behind the Titanic of self-righteousness and stand on the solid path of God's grace.

The arrogant man probably thought his path to heaven was already assured, and that he acted in accordance to God's will just by breathing.

The classic private bitterness of the public zealot. A man who wanted to take out his own inadequacy on other people. And

But what gave rise to the swaggering self-righteousness I so often encountered among these students? How could one feel guilt and shame, and at the same time parade one's self-righteousness?

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

Never in all of Scripture does Christ resist the repentant sinner. He resisted the proud and the self-righteous religious, but never the humble and repentant.

This is America, [...] where the maudlin happy end is as appreciated as a bout of self-righteous, gleeful slaughter.

I won't pretend that I've arrived at humble orthodoxy. When I gain a bit of theological knowledge, I all too frequently get puffed up with pride. But I'll tell you what deflates my arrogance and self-righteousness faster than anything else: trying to live whatever truth I have.

Whenever we are sure that we are among the righteous, we immediately find ourselves among the arrogant.

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

I admit I must have been impossible to live with. It was the self-righteousness of the grieving--my idea that I would betray him if I carried on as before, if I went through the motions of living--that must have driven my family apart from me. I still do not understand those instincts that lead you to flee the ones who want to help you, that lead you to take revenge upon them for a sorrow that is not their fault.

Well, for one, you walk around like you're so much better than everyone else. We're all a bunch of soulless animals or somethin' in your eyes, I guess. You're the high and mighty one and I ain't fit to drink your piss.