A Quote by Mark Lowry

The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.

Mark Lowry

Quote Topics

Beneath Bound Fig Foliage Forgotten Leaves Righteous Self Self-Righteous Tightly Wounds

Quote Author

Mark Lowry
American - Comedian
Born: June 24, 1958

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

They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

George F. Kennan

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

Vera Brittain

I also wear a hat or a very tightly pulled head tie when I write. I suppose I hope by doing that I will keep my brains from seeping out of my scalp and running in great gray blobs down my neck, into my ears, and over my face.

Maya Angelou

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

James Russell Lowell

The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why was she unknownin America? for evidently America was ashamed of her, and she was ashamed of herself, otherwise they would not have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her. When she was a true force, she was ignorant of fig-leaves, but the monthly-magazine-made American female had not a feature that would have been recognized by Adam. The trait was notorious, and often humorous, but anyone brought up among Puritans knew that sex was sin. In any previous age, sex was strength.

Henry Adams

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

Martin Luther

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

George F. Kennan

Halfway measures, such as loincloths or fig leaves, remain more titillating than complete nudity.

Paul Ludwig Landsberg

The design of the gum is expressed in the flow of it trunk and limbs, and the design of the European tree mainly in its foliage. In Europe great masses of foliage first attract the eye, here the limbs and trunk, which, on account of their proportion and colour, make themselves felt first, and one thinks of the foliage as a secondary matter.