moral arrogance Quotes

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider himself a true disciple of Christ," said President Hinckley. "How can any man holding the Melchizedek Priesthood arrogantly assume that he is eligible for the priesthood whereas another who lives a righteous life but whose skin is of a different color, is ineligible?

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

. . . it seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.

It was foreordained that I should go alone to Umvelos', and in the promptings of my own infallible heart I believed I saw the workings of Omnipotence. Such is our moral arrogance, and yet without such a belief I think that mankind would have ever been content to bide sluggishly at home.

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

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

The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.