A Quote by Leonard Ravenhill

The self-righteous never apologize.

Leonard Ravenhill

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Apologize Never Righteous Self Self-Righteous

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Leonard Ravenhill
English - Author
1907 - 1994

Self-righteousness is unavoidable. You can either be a self-righteous Pharisee where you think you are better than everyone else or you can be a self-righteous pagan who thinks you are better than the Pharisee. If you are a self-righteous person, I could become very self-righteous thinking that you're self-righteous and you think you're so good but I know you're bad. I know I'm bad so that makes me better than you.

Tullian Tchividjian

I always have a feeling of awe and wonder at what God can do - using me as an instrument. I believe that anyone who is fully surrendered to God's will can be used gloriously - and will really know some things - and will probably be called self-righteous. You're called self-righteous if you are self-centered enough to think you know everything - but you may also be called self-righteous by the immature if you are God-centered enough to really know some things.

Peace Pilgrim

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

Henry Rollins

most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

Vera Brittain

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

Martin Luther

...Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she had always needed the most.

David Nicholls

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.

Timothy Keller

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

Mignon McLaughlin

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

One should at least have some self-righteous ego. Not in the sense that you refuse to apologise even when judges reason with you to apologise. Self-righteous ego in the sense that nobody can force you to apologise if there is no reason to do so.

Prashant Bhushan

I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

Bette Midler

The call of repentance is for the righteous and unrighteous, the godly and ungodly alike. If the righteous had been the lights they were called to be, the nation would never have fallen as it did.

Jonathan Cahn

The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.

Leonard Ravenhill

Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.

Donald Miller

The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.