The indissoluble link between prideful self-love, aversion to truth, self-deception and hypocrisy is one of the great themes of the Bibleāfor example, the drumbeat repetition that "the way of a fool is right in his own eyes" (Prov 12:15). Sinful minds therefore claim both self-rightness in terms of truth and self-righteousness in terms of goodness.
- Os Guinness