Beware Of Self Righteousness Quotes & Sayings

It is mentally and morally injurious to man to do anything in which he does not find pleasure, and many forms of labour are quite pleasureless activities, and should be regarded as such. — Oscar Wilde

Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. — Anonymous

Beware of the good Nazi ... Because they compared themselves by the standard they themselves created. Each, in his own eyes, was a good Nazi, a moral Nazi, a decent Nazi, a religious Nazi, and a Nazi no worse than the next. For by seeing themselves in their own eyes, they become blind. But their judgement would come in the form of destruction, and their sins would be exposed before the world ... You can never judge yourself by your own standards and your own righteousness, but only in the light of His righteousness. — Jonathan Cahn

Self-righteousness ... is the largest idol of the human heart - the idol which man loves most and God hates most. Dearly beloved, you will always be going back to this idol. You are always trying to be something in yourself, to gain God's favour by thinking little of your sin, or by looking to your repentance, tears, prayers ; or by looking to your religious exercises, your frames, etc; or by looking to your graces, the Spirit's work in your heart. Beware of false Christs. Study sanctification to the utmost, but make not a Christ of it. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

They're my nakama. — Eiichiro Oda

The most important ingredient that goes into a pie is the love that goes into making it. — Sarah Weeks

So many people are able to do something in life, but when they compare what they have done to their larger environment, they feel they have not done anything! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

That stuff Jesus warned us to beware of, the yeast of the Pharisees, is so infectious today in the camps of both liberals and conservatives. Conservatives stand up and thank God that they are not like the homosexuals, the Muslims, the liberals. Liberals stand up and thank God that they are not like the war makers, the yuppies, the conservatives. It is a similar self-righteousness, just with different definitions of evildoing. It can paralyze us in judgment and guilt and rob us of life. Rather than separating ourselves from everyone we consider impure, maybe we are better off just beating our chests and praying that God would be merciful enough to save us from this present ugliness and to make our lives so beautiful that people cannot resist that mercy. — Shane Claiborne

The delay in the application of the policy to books has several explanations. For one thing, Blackshirts were not, nor have they yet become, bookworms; and the intellectual bread of Mussolini himself is made, usually, of clippings. They did not care too much about things which they could not hate since they usually did not know them ... — Giuseppe Borgese

Going to church, giving money to worthy causes, and moral goodness is commendable, but beware; you can be a good person and still be lost. When it comes to getting into heaven, the only righteousness God accepts is the righteousness of Jesus Christ. And the only way to get Christ's righteousness is to believe in Him and ask Jesus to save you. When a person makes Jesus his/her Saviour, Jesus imputes or gives His righteousness to them. The instant a person repents and believes in Jesus — Joseph Dulmage

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

I look at things as 'Everything is meant to be.' — Lil' Wayne

Trust wholly in Christ; rely altogether on His sufferings; beware of seeking to be justified in any other way than by His righteousness. Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient for salvation. There must be atonement made for sin according to the righteousness of God. The person to make this atonement must be God and man. — John Wycliffe

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

Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art. — Dave Barry

Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their growth almost always slows over time, thanks to what investment professionals call 'the law of large numbers.' — Alex Berenson

It may take you months or even a few years to build up an adequate emergency savings fund. That's okay. — Suze Orman

Don't tease," she muttered, trembling with need. "I can't bear it."
"Sweetheart ... " His silky whisper caressed her cheek. "I'm afraid you'll have to."
"Wh-why?" She caught her breath as he withdrew, giving her only the tip of his shaft.
"Because there's nothing I love more than teasing you. — Lisa Kleypas

Beware of people whose halos are on too tight. — Sally Stanford

The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage. — Chuck Palahniuk

Hope gives us reasons to live and pursue our dreams, expecting greater possibilities. — Ellen J. Barrier

Hopes are potential power. It has the innate ability to show the way of life. — Debasish Mridha

Cultivate humility it is the way of connectedness. Beware of false humility it leads to self-righteousness. — Arthur Dobrin

January 26th. The day when nothing remarkable happens to anyone else. — Ashley Newell

At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying whole wide world. — P. J. O'Rourke