self righteousness on Righteousness

O my Lord, I discern in my anger a sense of self-righteousness, which is much too close to pleasure. And I think of you, Lord. You were never angry in your own defense, and you took no pleasure in ang...

Biblically, the word righteous means approved by God. It’s something God judges as good or right. To be self-righteous, then, simply means we’ve met that standard in our own eyes. As we’ll see, this i...

Pop psychology is wrong when it tells you to look inside yourself and find your value. The magazines are wrong when they suggest you are only as good as you are thin, muscular, pimple-free, or perfume...

There are only two kinds of people: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

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.

Many people live righteously for selfish or misguided reasons. If you are striving to please God, examine your motives today.

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.