Quotes About Self-righteousness

these people believe that they are the doctors of society, whereas in fact they are only the disease.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Curiosity led to empathy - the great enemies of self-righteousness.

Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

your antagonist is a hero in their own mind... p.192

Moreover, as we have already seen, the truth claims of the Bible are not rejected because the gospel is rationally incoherent or unsupported by historical evidence. Rather, the truth is rejected because the unchanged heart remains in love with the false notion of its own moral self-righteousness and/or intellectual autonomy.

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

Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.

He was, and is yet, most likely, the wearisomest, self-righteous pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself, and fling the curses on his neighbours.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

You should," Jefferson said grandly. "It's always a lot easier if you assume the world is wrong and you're right. If you assume the other way around, we may as well pray for the earth to swallow us up because we're not doing jackshit right!

The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.

The thing I hate the most in any kind of writing is self-righteousness. Where you pretend you don't have the same kinds of flaws your subject has.

Headmistress. Whatever. She's still a self-righteous old bit—

Self-righteousness is without a true bottom.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

Moralizers who try to separate themselves and denounce the narcissists in the world today are often the biggest narcissists of them all - they love the sound of their voice as they point fingers and preach.

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

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old it is easier still.

Vegans are always wrong, but damn pleased with themselves

The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want to be my own law, I have a right to my self, my hatred and my desires, my life and my death. The

The losers in life think they have all the answers. They can't learn because they're too busy telling everyone what they know.

Too many of us focus on the outward structure of character and conduct without taking the time to build the inward foundation of devotion to God. This often results in a cold morality or legalism, or, even worse, self-righteousness and spiritual pride.

Well did the Puritan John Owen say, "Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness is the soul and substance of all false religion."[2] Mortification must be done by the strength and under the direction of the Holy Spirit.