Megan Phelps-Roper Quotes

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.

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.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

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

It's unbelievable that people have the time and inclination to be as negative as they are on a public platform about people who accomplish whatever they do in the public eye.

I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?

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.

They are not reformers who simply abhor evil. Such men become in the end abhorrent themselves.

Churchgoers feel righteous, responsible, and obedient to God's will. They view anyone unlike themselves as devoid of values, and therefore unworthy of God's love. By denying God to all those who have strayed from the path of righteousness, the devout are unwittingly taking on themselves a role that belongs only to God.

Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.

They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

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.

I don't understand some people, using biblical terms to criticize me when this is just a game.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.

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

Some of my fans don't really like it when I respond to people who say things that are trying to be hurtful on social media. But I think it's kind of funny. There's a lot of things that make me laugh, that people would try and say those things. I mean, there's some that I can't even retweet or respond to just because of how bad it is.

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.

The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.