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  • "Sinner" is a present-tense description of everyone, including those who have put their faith in Christ. Of course, those who have called Jesus "Lord" are justified, meaning that they are no longer guilty. Also, they have been given the Spirit, which makes them slaves to Christ rather than to sin. But we all are sinners. Perfection awaits eternity.

  • It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.

    Bullying   Gun   Thinking  
    Penn Jillette (2012). “God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales”, p.151, Simon and Schuster
  • A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be more cheerful, imaginative, tolerant of dissent, and skillful at the game of give-and-take. A gathering of Republicans is more respectable, sober, purposeful, and businesslike than a gathering of Democrats; it is also likely to be more self-righteous, pompous, cut-and-dried, and just plain boring.

    Cutting   Self   Games  
  • The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to show them their blindness, narrowness, and self righteousness, and how these things are destroying both their own souls and the lives of the people around them.

    Religious   Jesus   Self  
  • You know how great villains just believe in what they're doing? In their minds they're not villains, they're not doing anything wrong; they're just self-righteous in their dedication to their cause.

    "Jessica Biel's Maternal Instinct". Interview with Hannah Ghorashi, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 10, 2014.
  • I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.

    Erica Jong (1991). “Becoming light: poems, new and selected”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.

  • 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.

    Self   People   Shapes  
  • There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty - in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub - our immediate duty is to stop it.

    War   Mean   Self  
    "Notes on the Way". Time and Tide Magazine, June 10, 1934.
  • I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I shall ask Him if it is indeed His will that a child should suffer and its soul be damned for a little blemish of the body.

    Children   Heart   Self  
    "The chrysalids".
  • It happens over and over again—a group of people come together, fired up with passion to create change. They begin with huge inspiration and enthusiasm—and a year later, it’s all foundered in the mire of conflict. We could have changed the world ten times over—if we didn’t have to do it together with other people, those irritating, self-righteous, controlling, fluff-brained, clueless idiots who are our friends and allies.

  • The challenge is whether China as a rising country, the United States as the superpower, can develop a cooperative relationship in this period before nationalism becomes so dominant in China as a substitute for communism, and a kind of self-righteous isolationism in this country that substitutes China for the Soviet Union.

    Source: www.nytimes.com
  • The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.

    Prayer   Men   Self  
  • Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?.

    Self   Three   Cost  
    Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.37, Hoover Press
  • I have characterized Ross as exemplifying an extreme position among theistic scientists. However, he is not so extreme as to promote the scientifically unsound notions of the young-Earth creationists and other anti-evolutionists ... They are so far off the scale that their scientific claims need not be taken seriously. Their distortions and misrepresentations of the scientific facts are not consistent with their self-righteous claims of acting to protect all that is good and moral.

    Taken   Self   Scary  
  • I always tell our community that we should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated. It's certainly never our goal to frustrate, but it is worth noting that the people who were constantly agitated were the self-righteous, religious elite, the rich, and the powerful. But the people who were fascinated by him, by his love and grace, were folks who were already wounded and ostracized — folks who didn't have much to lose, who already knew full well that they were broken and needed a Savior.

    Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.133, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • I think, that a man never passes the verge of moral humility, till self-righteousness be dethroned, till the high and towering imaginations of the man's own righteousness by the law be levelled by the mighty weapons of the gospel, and he brought to submit to the righteousness of God for justification, which is, in the gospel revealed 'from faith to faith.'

    Humility   Men   Thinking  
    Ebenezer Erskine, Donald Fraser (1836). “The Whole Works of the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine, Minister of the Gospel at Stirling: Consisting of Sermons and Discourses, on Important and Interesting Subjects. To which is Added, an Enlarged Memoir of the Author, by D. Fraser”, p.166
  • God has nothing to say to the self-righteous. Unless you humble yourself before Him in the dust, and confess before Him your iniquities and sins, the gate of heaven, which is open only for sinners, saved by grace, must be shut against you forever.

    Humble   Self   Dust  
    Dwight L Moody (1897). “God's Good News”, p.36, Moody Publishers
  • I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just so a relative handful of self-righteous environmental cultists can go around feeling puffed up with themselves.

    Self   People   Feelings  
  • It's a real smug self-righteous punk kid saying nobody has the right to tell him what to do and how dare you put a sign up saying that I can't go on your property?

    Real   Kids   Self  
    ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.
  • Grace is inviting to the unrighteous and threatening to the self-righteous

    Twitter post from May 07, 2014
  • Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be — or to be indistinguishable from — self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.

    Self   Years   Games  
    "Cryptonomicon". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1999.
  • You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.

    Self   Issues   Evil  
    Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.133, Random House
  • A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

  • I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous.

    Thinking   Self   Wish  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought is terrifying.

    Men   Self   Doe  
    Twitter post from Oct 03, 2013
  • The reason people hate America is because they don't like being treated like garbage by arrogant, pompous, hypocritical, self-righteous, duplicitous, imperialist political and bureaucratic hacks.

    Hate   America   Self  
  • We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.

    Children   Self   Disease  
  • The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians-when they are somber and joyless, when they are self-righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths.

    Christian   Self   Joy  
    Joseph C. Aldrich, Joe Aldrich (1993). “Lifestyle Evangelism: Learning to Open Your Life to Those Around You”, Multnomah
  • We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

    Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.57, BookBaby
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