Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

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

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

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

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.

Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.

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

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

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

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

There is no sinner like a young saint.

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

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

Showing your own righteousness by pointing out someone's unrighteousness, the race to the bottom, the transgressions getting smaller and smaller and smaller but still treated with the same level of intolerance and condemnation, all of that stuff, even as I say it I am talking about Twitter but I am thinking about Westboro.

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

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

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

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners.

The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.

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

And you call yourself a Christian,' were Hilly's words to me and I thought, God. When did I ever do that?

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.

It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.