Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

We often think more highly of ourselves than we ought to, and it's easy to judge others and be critical of their weaknesses and shortcomings. But this self-righteous attitude is a sin that we can be blinded to because we're so focused on what the other person did wrong. The reality is this attitude is worse than the wrong behavior we're judging.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

He always had a problem with the purity of others. Never his own.

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

How dare you put yourself in that position where you are the moral judge?

That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.

Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me.

Sinners think they are saints, but saints know they are sinners.

Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.

The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).

If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

"That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners," said the Master.

The man who acts the least, upbraids the most.

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.