The nice people do not come to God, because they think they are good through their own merits or bad through inherited instincts. If they do good, they believe they are to receive the credit for it; if they do evil, they deny that it is their own fault. They are good through their own goodheartedness, they say; but they are bad because they are misfortunate, either in their economic life or through an inheritance of evil genes from their grandparents. The nice people rarely come to God; they take their moral tone from the society in which they live. Like the Pharisee in front of the temple, they believe themselves to be very respectable citizens. Elegance is their test of virtue; to them, the moral is the aesthetic, the evil is the ugly. Every move they make is dictated, not by a love of goodness, but by the influence of their age. Their intellects are cultivated—in knowledge of current events; they read only the bestsellers, but their hearts are undisciplined. They say that they would go to church if the Church were only better—but they never tell you how much better the Church must be before they will join it. They sometimes condemn the gross sins of society, such as murder; they are not tempted to these because they fear the opprobrium which comes to them who commit them. By avoiding the sins which society condemns, they escape reproach, they consider themselves good par excellence.
Fulton J. SheenTags: sin hypocrisy catholicism catholic self-righteousness worldliness
Let a prejudice be bequeathed, carried in the air, adopted by hearsay, caught in through the eye,–however it may come, these minds will give it a habitation; it is something to assert strongly and bravely, something to fill up the void of spontaneous ideas, something to impose on others with the authority of conscious right; it is at once a staff and a baton.
George EliotTags: identity prejudice self-righteousness boobus-americanus bourgeois-indulgence intellectual-laziness
Though there is no evil in righteousness, there is in self-righteousness,
David PietruszaTags: self-righteousness
Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.
N.T. WrightTags: grace arrogance self-righteousness
Despite all claims to the contrary, we have not been called by God to be inspectors of others production or quality of 'fruit'.
R. Alan WoodsTags: self-righteousness hypocracy r-alan-woods
I suspect Dr. Robert L. Webb may be theologically a 'hyper-Calvinist' of the Jesse Mercer persuasion."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
Tags: self-righteousness r-alan-woods dr-robert-l-webb hyper-calvinist jesse-mercer
Put that in your self-righteous pipe and smoke it!!!.
R. Alan WoodsTags: arrogance self-righteousness r-alan-woods presumptousness
There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul.
R. Alan WoodsTags: self-righteousness sins mental-illness sociopathology r-alan-woods sociopaths soul-sick
Only God is in a position to look down upon someone.
Habeeb AkandeTags: god humility arrogance self-righteousness judging-people
Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.
Max FrischTags: guilt justification self-righteousness
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