Self-righteousness, by blinding your eyes to the truth, is the direct cause of the most gigantic and the most subtle miseries of the world.

Whoever understands this, and penetrating to the great heart beneath, recognizes the same original life in them all, will possess the secret of salvation; whatever nation first casts aside the filthy rags of its own self-righteousness and the defiling and sordid garment of mercenary gain, and accepts the others frankly as its brother and sister nations, all of one familythat nation will become the Healer and Redeemer of the World.

Her later letters to Mrs. Leigh, as that called forth by Moore's Life, are certainly as open to the charge of self-righteousness, as those of her husband's are to self-disparagement.

Perhaps the intense self-righteousness of Moslems is after all the hardest point about them; their notion that in the end all who are Islam are safe strengthens them in this belief."

I was particularly struck by the way he brought out the necessity of taking up the cross in these days, in a real giving up of self, self-love, self-righteousness, self-pleasing.

He strikes a blow at all pharisaism and all self-righteousness, and inculcates obedience to direct commands as the highest duty of man.

There is not so much of that high, gassy pride, that fine mezzotinto, isolated hauteur and self-righteousness in the place which may be seen in some chapels.

Let us beware, therefore, at this moment, of anything savouring of self-righteousness.

The mystery of this was, that he restored the pencil, with a grin of self-righteousness, to Mr. Marsh.

It's our self-righteousness has undone us, Tumulty; it's that which has made us blind and hardand dishonest: for there has been dishonesty too.

The consequent isolation, I fear, made much for self-righteousness.

In my mother's thought there was only one thing utterly profane, and that was self-righteousness.

Self-righteousness, the inseparable companion of the quarrels of sects, took the place of humility, and thus became prevalent that most dangerous condition of the soul of man, when he imagines that he sanctifies what he does; a frame of mind, by the way, that is by no means strange to very many who ought to be conscious of their unworthiness.

Jealousy, anger, pride, uncharity, cruelty, self-righteousness, touchiness, doggedness, sullennessthese are the ingredients of this dark and loveless soul.

I believe I sincerely desire that no spurious self-satisfaction may be mistaken for the peace of God, that no activity in works of self-righteousness may be mistaken for doing the day's work in the day.

" With austere self-righteousness Mrs. Duncan corrected me.

Jesus, instead of rebuking their self-righteousness, promised them as a reward, that they should sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Claiming to be exclusively spiritual, fervent, unworldly, the sole announcer of the free grace of God amid self-righteousness and sin, it had come, in fact, to be on very easy terms with the world.

The craving after self-righteousness, and the desire of acquiring merit by self-mortification, is an innate principle of the human heart, and ineradicable even by Christianity.

There is, moreover, something particularly and unnecessarily revolting in Hidaspes' passion for the deformed dwarf, and something forced in the contrast between Leucippus' licentious relations with Bacha at the beginning of the play and the self-righteousness of his later attitude.

He was not hard, unimaginative, fenced in by stupidity and self-righteousness from unhappiness and doubt, as were some of the men accounted successful whom I knew.

That combination of great sensitiveness and great self-righteousness is the most melancholy thing I know.

"Of course," I remarked, "every one has heard of the garment of self-righteousness, though it may be that none in this congregation are aware of ever having seen it.

Yet everybody seemed to breathe more freely, as if relieved from some responsibility, the Judge accepting this manifest expression of Providence with resigned self-righteousness.

There is a kind of self-righteousness in the protests of these ladies, with which we confess that we have no sympathy.