"The variety of inventive ideas—and ideologies—that people can come up with never ceases to amaze me, especially when …"

"Morality, in and of itself, is a damning thing. Self-righteousness is a damning thing. You’d be better off to be immo…"

"Never have I greater reason for suspicion than when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and…"

"A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when…"

"Regret not that which is past; and trust not to thine own righteousness."

"If there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase salva…"

"What self-righteous persons take to themselves, is the same work that Christ was engaged in when He was in His agony …"

"You trust in your own doings to appease God for your sins, and to incline the heart of God to you. Though you are poo…"

"You that trust in your own righteousness, arrogate to yourselves the honor of the greatest thing that even God Himsel…"

"Let us pray God that He would root out of our hearts every thing of our own planting, and set out there, with His own…"