Self-righteousness
As ignorance of Christ’s righteousness is the reason why men go about trying to establish their own righteousness, so ignorance of how to live continually by the grace and strength of Christ is the reason why many turn to a lower standard of holiness, which is no holiness at all. [AFTG]
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Men may do what is morally good and yet never do anything that is acceptable to God, for they may not do it out of love and gratitude to God for his grace and mercy, but for the love and praise of self. [AFTG]
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Many will be saved and more perhaps be lost contrary to the judgments formed of them by their neighbours. But more will be saved and more will be lost contrary to the opinions they had formed of themselves. [ROOS]
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A man may as certainly perish by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces as by gross sins. [ASGTH]
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Some think it strength of grace to endure nothing in the weaker, whereas the strongest are readiest to bear with the infirmities of the weak. [TBR]
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Every self-seeker is a self-tormentor, a self-destroyer; he carries a hell, an executioner in his own bosom. [PRASD]
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All morality arising from the old nature – even if prayer is made to Christ for help and it is claimed that it is being done to the glory of God – is never acceptable to God. [AFTG]
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Lack of a due sense of the sinfulness of our best works leads to dreams of self-perfection, self-righteousness and self-justification. [AFTG]
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All ideas of a self-righteousness or justification by works have always produced lives of a low moral standard. [AFTG]