Quotes About Self-righteousness

I won't be indulging in anger anymore, vehemently and self-righteously singing protest songs, and expecting them to bring peace to me or anyone else.

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify corruption, obtain comfort in their own mint: 'Who hath required this at your hands?' This is truly to be 'righteous over-much,' as Solomon speaks, when we will pretend to correct God's law, and add supplements of our own to his rule.

You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right.

Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength.

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 grace.

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

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 gives to all who come.

There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.

Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

He did bad things. Even though he thought he was the hero.

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, as so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right.

Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right and another wrong.

they also strengthen the ego in another way by giving it a feeling of superiority on which it thrives. It may not be immediately apparent how complaining, say, about a traffic jam, about politicians, about the "greedy wealthy" or the "lazy unemployed," or your colleagues or ex-spouse, men or women, can give you a sense of superiority. Here is why. When you complain, by implication you are right and the person or situation you complain about or react against is wrong.

Libraries, railway stations and three Scottish castles were burned. A bomb exploded in Westminster Abbey, damaging a stained-glass window.[8] There were over 200 acts of damage against property in the space of four years. The suffrage campaign of assault on art was driven by moral anger and self-righteousness. It was part cultural terrorism, part publicity campaign and part blackmail.

Our Lord's last words to the persons who called His conduct in question at this time were not merely apologetic, but judicial. "I came not," He said, "to call the righteous, but sinners;" intimating a purpose to let the self-righteous alone and to call to repentance and to the joys of the kingdom those who were not too self-satisfied to care for the benefits offered, and to whom the gospel feast would be a real entertainment.

Pete couldn't believe how sanctimonious somebody could be just because they'd once had a soldering iron stuck up their arse.