Tullian Tchividjian Quotes

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.

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.

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.

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

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

Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.

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?

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

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

The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience. Others only delude themselves and thus upset families, churches, and all other relationships. In their self-pride and judgment of others, they show great inconsistency.

Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.

Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.

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

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

Whenever you are faced with someone who has made far more errors in judgment and far more mistakes than you, you have a tendency to get on your high horse.

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.

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

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

The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.

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

The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.

The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness.