Self Righteousness Quotes
Self Righteousness Quote of the day
Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.
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.
We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly.
One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.
Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.
The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.
But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.
While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.
For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.
There is grace for the unrighteous and the self-righteous alike, and the father loves both sons well.
His self-righteousness has prevented him from enjoying the grace all around him.
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.
An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God's response.
There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul.
Complacency traps people and besiege them until longer period. The biggest challenge is to become aware of its existence and stepping out of it quickly.
If your doctrine changed for the better yet your character changed for the worse, you changed for the worse.
Put that in your self-righteous pipe and smoke it!!!.
Morality often involves tension within the group motivated by competition between different groups.
With good morality first candidates you'll get bad candor, bad ethics, bad loyalty and bad morality - lastly bad odor will surface to save the day if you maintain good optimism like I do.
God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?