Quotes about Self-righteousness
How sad to see a worthless man who claims to know God confirm by running back to the road of self-righteousness that he never met Him.
- James MacDonald
Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.
- Max Lucado
Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.
- Randy Alcorn
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
- William Hazlitt
One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God
- Frederick Buechner
Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.
- Tullian Tchividjian
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.
- Paul David Tripp
Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.
- DA Carson