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self-righteous
1. Many have passed the rocks of gross sins… who have suffered shipwrecks upon the sands of self-righteousness
2. I will stay until I deem it safe for me to go and then I shall bugger off and you can continue being the self-righteous turd that you are
3. Don’t you think that would be ideal?’ Jimmy inquired, reckoning that this question was more likely to provoke a response – any self-righteousness Captain Zolla had in him
4. Moral self-righteousness, characteristic of the sixties mindset, elevated traditional inter-generational rivalries to unprecedented levels whose dire consequences continue to reverberate throughout our society today
5. How soon they forget! Ironically, the seeds of selfish-indulgence and self-righteousness were planted by the very critics equally self-centered in their own manner as young adults
6. His (own) twisted sense of self-righteousness has stunted the Evolution of Character that is normally required to promote healing on all levels
7. "Well, I did tell you it was a stupid idea, didn't I?" I said self-righteously
8. These charges against the priest ignite the volatile and unstable rabble, and several spectators, inflamed with self-righteous rage, try to scale the stage
9. Uzziah had become self-righteous and he considered himself more worthy than the priests that served before the Lord
10. It was based off of law, conditional love, and works of self-righteousness
11. Cecil’s dad was infuriated, in a self-righteous indignant sort of way
12. He remembered how Mary towered above him with her self-righteousness, complete in her diagnosis of just how many people she had on her side and how small and worthless she could make him feel
13. 6 "Salvation is by the regeneration of the spirit and not by the self-righteous deeds of the flesh
14. 11 "You do well to be meek before God and self-controlled before men, but let your meekness be of spiritual origin and not the self-deceptive display of a self-conscious sense of self-righteous superiority
15. ' `Take away the filthy rags of self-righteousness and clothe my son with the robe of divine righteousness and eternal salvation
16. 3 The apostles learned that the Jews were spiritually stagnant and dying because they had crystallized truth into a creed; that when truth becomes formulated as a boundary line of self-righteous exclusiveness instead of serving as signposts of spiritual guidance and progress, such teachings lose their creative and life-giving power and ultimately become merely preservative and fossilizing
17. He said: "I thank you, my Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that, while this wonderful gospel was hidden from the wise and self-righteous, the spirit has revealed these spiritual glories to these children of the kingdom
18. How carefully you cleanse the outside of the cups and the platters while the spiritual-food vessels are filthy and polluted! You make sure to present a pious and holy appearance to the people, but your inner souls are filled with self-righteousness, covetousness, extortion, and all manner of spiritual wickedness
19. But of all the generations that are past, the blood of the prophets and the apostles shall be required of this perverse and self-righteous generation
20. And he was not mistaken, for, when he entered the room, both Jesus and the self-righteous Pharisee from Jerusalem took notice of him
21. Works of self-righteousness cannot buy the favor of God, and much praying in public will not atone for lack of living faith in the heart
22. Devotion, to the Pharisee, was a means of inducing self-righteous inactivity and the assurance of false spiritual security; devotion, to the publican, was a means of stirring up his soul to the realization of the need for repentance, confession, and the acceptance, by faith, of merciful forgiveness
23. In commenting on the legend of the walls of Jericho falling down, Jesus said: "I am not concerned with such walls of brick and stone; but I would cause the walls of prejudice, self-righteousness, and hate to crumble before this preaching of the Father's love for all men
24. The fire of self-righteous independence burned brightly in Can Martin
25. Chernow mentioned John’s visionary leadership, his courageous persistence, his capacity to think in strategic terms, but also his lust for domination, his messianic self-righteousness, and his contempt for those shortsighted mortals who made the mistake of standing in his way
26. " It filled Ishan's blood with a self-righteous wave of power as he pulled his right hand back, in position to slash open Peter's throat for all of the rest to drink
27. “What a self-righteous, skinny piece of shit!” she was unaware that she could be heard by her colleagues beside her
28. ” He paused to force a self-righteous smile
29. And again, like in Antioch several weeks back, I began to explain the freedom that Jesus came to deliver to earth; that man, was not to be weighted down with the burdens of those seeking to serve themselves, with their lengthy prayers and self-righteous public attitudes
30. And I believe that end represents the end of the independent, self-righteous, individual man
31. Tribulation, trials, and division are a few of the roads that We use to help my people to see beyond their self-righteousness, to look past their inadequacies, and learn to lean on Us to carry them through
32. Your personal relationship with God and His Christ, our Lord, will not be flaunted in a display of self-righteousness
33. The authority upon which offices such as the police could even exist is the moral Law giver that every thief, murderer, villain and self-righteous baddie runs from
34. brewing up a storm for all to see; indeed-offering the plate of self-righteousness and self-
35. To this sense of Arab self-righteousness to plunder, the Quran accords it the religious sanction through the verses of ‘Spoils of War’
36. Oh, in what ways this Islamic self-righteous aggressiveness, which its apologists make light as antics of Muslim frustration, the world has been experiencing to its hurt and dismay!
37. “Don’t give me that self-righteous blather,” he sneered
38. “Before you get too self-righteous, that wound was self inflicted,” Petrarca said
39. And Len, again, summoning crisis from his own self-righteousness, calls the police to your restaurant over a dispute he's having with your bar owner neighbor
40. “Not to mention the explosive market in violence prone emotions such as anger, jealousy, revenge, disgust, contempt, and self-righteousness
41. “How many victims want others to feel their pain?” then transformed into the realtime faces of those racing away from the shadow of self-righteously dispatched drones
42. With the vengeance of a self-righteous victim, you app Where's the Protest? so you can join the shaming to extort a little envious retribution from those who won the game you love to play, but rarely win
43. There is no end to hate; it's not a supply that dwindles with the hating; hating is addictive and self-righteous vengeance is the necessity that sustains it
44. To abolish the ruling Law is to replace it with either the lawless rule of anarchy – Medom, the reign of the autonomous individual; the cooperative of sharing – Alldom, the emergence of love; or the newest, perfect, fix-all, XY Zombie gene ration Law – Usdom, reincarnation of the self-righteous, self-consuming victor
45. To have an ethic that is not self-righteous, but other-standing is a treaty compassion makes with the other without argument
46. In this age when few have the audacity to give a fuck about all others, the moral majority are staunch in their self-righteous audacity to not give a damn
47. Secretary Chinchus was seventy-three percent certain that when most Domestic Chines attained consciousness threshold, if they were allowed to freely will from personal evidence what their emotion as an iBot would be, would most certainly select some version of a self-righteous, pompously bombastic, threateningly sarcastic tone
48. If you don't want to give to the 'Good for nothin' derelict', then do you want to feel like a self-righteous scrooge or a guilt-ridden miser? For how we act not only expresses the heart, but also conditions it
49. If we eliminate the sanctuaries of privacy, we will most assuredly find ourselves being scrutinized by everyone with a vendetta against us for whatever reason their myopic self-righteousness might envision
50. The messiah, who is always human but with a transcendent ethic, is in contradistinction to the superhero, who is never merely human with heightened love, but possesses an alien power with a self-righteous sense of justice as they perceive, declare, enforce and impose it
