Self-righteousness Quotes
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 Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: The Problem of Pain | | The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. Author: Charles Spurgeon | | The self-righteous never apologize. Author: Leonard Ravenhill | | Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves. Author: Thomas Adams | | According to the Bible the works of the "flesh" are of two kinds (though both are of the flesh): the unrighteous and the self-righteous. Author: Watchman Nee | | Most soulish believers assume an attitude of self-righteousness, though often it is scarcely detectable. They hold tenaciously to their minute opinions we ought to lay aside the small differences and pursue the common objective. Author: Watchman Nee | |
| | That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Saviour, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency. Author: Alexander MacLaren | | Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity. Author: Alexander MacLaren | | Many have passed the rocks of gross sins - who have suffered shipwreck upon the sands of self-righteousness. Author: William Secker
Source: The Consistent Christian, 1660. | | Self-righteousness is the largest idol of the human heart - the idol which man loves most and God hates most. Dearly beloved, you will always be going back to this idol. You are always trying to be something in yourself, to gain God's favour by thinking little of your sin, or by looking to your repentance, tears, prayers ; or by looking to your religious exercises, your frames, etc; or by looking to your graces, the Spirit's work in your heart. Beware of false Christs. Study sanctification to the utmost, but make not a Christ of it. Author: Robert Murray McCheyne | | I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because they're counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven. They give lip service to repentance and faith, but they've never been born again. Author: Adrian Rogers | | Legal obedience hath the evil of blasphemy in it. It reproaches the righteousness of Christ, as if it were not sufficient, as if his atonement were not perfect, as if his satisfaction were not full, as if his obedience were not perfect, unless it be patched up with the rags of man's own righteousness. Author: Ralph Erskine
Source: Law-Death, Gospel-Life |
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