SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS

Related Subjects: Bigotry, Complacency, Righteousness

1. Regret not that which is past; and trust not to thine own righteousness.—ST. ANTHONY
   

2. Be not righteous overmuch.—Bible, Ecclesiastes 7:16
   

3. If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.—JONATHAN EDWARDS
   

4. Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem—for purely religious purposes, of course —to know more about iniquity than the Unregenerate.—KIPLING, Plain Tales
   

5. He that thinks too much of his virtues, bids others think of his vices.—Proverb
   

6. Men who can hear the Decalogue and feel no self-reproach.—WORDSWORTH, The Old Cumberland Beggar