Self Righteousness Quotes

• The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Self, Soul

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

  Charles L. Allen

  Love, Winning, Self

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• Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

  Bertrand Russell

  Self, Born, Righteousness

  Bertrand Russell (2007). “Justice in War-time”, p.192, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.

  J. C. Ryle

  Self, People, Shapes

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• Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.

  Thomas Adams

  Thinking, Self, Devil

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• If we think we are usually good, then God is usually irrelevant... Such thinking ignores the depths of sin in my own heart, and, in essence, it elevates me so that I am just a mildly flawed imitation of God rather than someone completely dependent on Him.

  Edward T Welch

  Heart, Thinking, Essence

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• Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

  Eric Hoffer

  Humility, Self, Voice

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

  Barry Eisler

  Responsibility, Self, Causes

  "Fictional Politics" by Barry Eisler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2010.

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• The self-righteous never apologize.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Self, Apologizing, Righteous

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• In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

  Desmond Tutu

  Sorry, Humility, Order

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Self, White, Black

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1873). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons”, p.444

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• No one listens willingly to someone who speaks to them from a position of self-righteousness and judgment. Again and again in the Gospels, Jesus reserves his harshest words for those who ignore their own weakness in order to lord it over others.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Order, Self

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• The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.

  Martin Luther

  Self Confidence, Law, Ideas

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• The self-righteousness and other ego-puffery that makes missionaries and evangelists out of Christians is in truth a measure of how far they are from even the one thing they think is most certainly true, i.e. the confidence that they are truly Christians.

  Kenny Smith

  Christian, Philosophy, Thinking

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• Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Simple, Self, Fruit

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.804, Library of America

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• 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.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Self, Grace, Defense

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Failure: the Back Door to Success”, p.77, Moody Publishers

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

  Charlotte Bronte

  Self, Independence, Lasts

  'Jane Eyre' (2nd ed., 1848) preface

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• Self-righteousness exclaims, "I will not be saved in God's way; I will make a new road to heaven; I will not bow before God's grace; I will not accept the atonement which God has wrought out in the person of Jesus; I will be my own redeemer; I will enter heaven by my own strength, and glorify my own merits." The Lord is very wroth against self-righteousness. I do not know of anything against which His fury burneth more than against this, because this touches Him in a very tender point, it insults the glory and honor of His Son Jesus Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Son, Self

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• For godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce Himself in you; not self-righteousness, but Christ-righteousness; the righteousness which is by faith

  W. Ian Thomas

  Self, Christ, Capacity

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• When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

  Paul David Tripp

  Running, Self, Sin

  Twitter post from Jul 03, 2015

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• That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Savior, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Men, Self, Complacency

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• Human self-righteousness denies the need for the saving, enabling grace of Christ. Human righteousness embraces the cruelest of Satan's lies, that a person can be righteous by keeping the law. If that were true, there would have been no need for the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

  Paul David Tripp

  Lying, Self, Law

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• The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

  J. C. Ryle

  Self, Cures, Righteousness

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.340, Editora Dracaena

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• Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.

  Timothy Keller

  Discovery, Self, Ironic

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• Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after an individual meets the adopted standards of the condemner; oppositely, unconditional love is a holy love.

  Criss Jami

  True Love, Spiritual, Unconditional Love

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.121, Criss Jami

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