Self-righteousness Quotes

You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how compl...

When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know...

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, t...

The nice people do not come to God, because they think they are good through their own merits or bad...

Yet what moved Our Blessed Lord to invective was not badness but just such self-righteousness as thi...

Let a prejudice be bequeathed, carried in the air, adopted by hearsay, caught in through the eye,–ho...

He had the fault of thinking too well of himself--which who has not who thinks of himself at all, ap...

I did not intend making a philippic against covetousness, a sin to which I believe no one here is ad...

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their i...

The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and...

Morality often involves tension within the group motivated by competition between different groups.

It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of rel...

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

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insuffer...

The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteou...

Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language...

I reckon it does take a powerful trust in the Lord to guard a fellow, though sometimes I think that ...