Self-Righteous 2

For a Christian to be labeled as self-righteous, this would mean they are defining their faith not in God, nor His Word, but themselves. “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” (Romans 12:2)

God has nothing to say to the self-righteous. ~ Dwight L. Moody.

The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel. ~ Tullian Tchividjian.

We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam. ~ J. C. Ryle.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. ~ Charles Spurgeon.

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. ~ Leonard Ravenhill.

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God’s grace reaches farther. ~ Tullian Tchividjian.

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people. ~ Charles L. Allen.

Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace. ~ Randy Alcorn.

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. ~ E. M. Forster.

Though there is no evil in righteousness, there is in self-righteousness. ~ David Pietrusza.

Whereas all liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say what they really think. ~ Thomas Frank.

We have a God-given commission, but it is not a commission to be self-righteous know-it-alls- quite the contrary. Our work in God’s world begins with the acknowledgment that we are not God, and that our most bitter rivals are made in God’s image. ~ John C. Danforth.

I don’t want to sound self-righteous, and I don’t want to act like I have it all put together. ~ Ainsley Earhardt.

“Some people looove to feel offended because it makes them feel important. When your only tool is a hammer, suddenly every problem starts to look like a nail. And when the only time you feel relevant is when you claim to be offended, suddenly everything looks offensive.”

― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert

“Some people think they are always right; they are always ready to judge those who they see as wrong!”

― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Narcissists often feign oppression because narcissists always feel entitled.”

― Criss Jami

 Bible Verses About Self Righteous Matthew 7:1-2

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 

Matthew 7:1-5 Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again

Romans 14:10-13

But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to ...

Romans 3:10

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

Romans 3:23

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness. ~ Timothy Keller.