Quotes about Self righteousness

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You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such a — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right fr — James Crumley
Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulne — Criss Jami, Killosophy
We can not, therefore, reserve as sacred anything that is not truth and yet we cannot turn from things of truth have ins — Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
I reckon it does take a powerful trust in the Lord to guard a fellow, though sometimes I think that Cora’s a mite over-c — William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
Religion means life. Religion means true service in love to man and God. Religion means what ought to be understood with — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive probl — John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You
It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of religious self-righteou — Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
When in Reading Gaol he told me that the warders in the dock had been gentle and kind, but the visit of the chaplain in — Charles S. Ricketts, Oscar Wilde: Recollections by Jean Paul Raymond
If your doctrine changed for the better yet your character changed for the worse, you changed for the worse. — Criss Jami
Clara shrugged and immediately knew her betrayal of Peter. In one easy movement she'd distanced herself from his bad beh — Louise Penny, Still Life
You’re not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through yo — Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series
For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appeari — Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously d — Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Sometimes, we expect life to work a certain way and when it doesn’t we blame others or see it as a sign, rather than fac — Shannon L. Alder
Our poor world aspires simply to point out where Christians have gone wrong, and that is pretty much where it goes wrong — Criss Jami
Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half of the ti — Shannon L. Alder
The main difference is that the enlightened believe that the poor criminal should be rehabilitated while the righteous b — William Ryan, Blaming the Victim
God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the — Criss Jami, Healology
[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgive — Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last