Quotes About Pharisee

#1. I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles
tabernacle and pharisee and parable, tresspass and Babylon and covenant.

Penelope Lively

#2. The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death, is walking toward the temple when he meets a Pharisee who mocks him for having been deceived by a false messiah. These taunts echoed John's own fear and doubt.

Elaine Pagels

#3. A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.

Simone Weil

#4. A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.

C.S. Lewis

#5. The Vicar's talk was not always inspiriting: he had escaped being a Pharisee, but he had not escaped that low estimate of possibilities which we rather hastily arrive at as an inference from our own failure.

George Eliot

#6. Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.

Emily Bronte

#7. To be a Pharisee is not to understand kingdom principles

Sunday Adelaja

#8. The spider fattens himself on flies, and the Pharisee has his reward. Foolish persons are easily entrapped.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. He was, and is yet, most likely, the wearisomest, self-righteous pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself, and fling the curses on his neighbours.

Emily Bronte

#10. According to Miller, Pharisee Judaism is not a religion at all, but a secret society posing as a religion, a "sect with Judaism as a rite." She cites Moses Mendelssohn who wrote "Judaism is not a religion but a Law religionized."

Edith Starr Miller

#11. A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#12. See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands,
And justifies himself with lifted hands.
Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes,
Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries.

John Bunyan

#13. He later came to love. Then God hijacked his life. The zealous Pharisee became the apostle with the gospeled heart. So of course he would say, "To live is Christ." In the logic of the gospel, there are no alternatives to Christ. Every other

Matt Chandler

#14. Every way that we try to make our kids good that isn't rooted in the good news of the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ is a damnable, crushing, despair-breedin g, Pharisee-produc ing law.

Elyse Fitzpatrick

#15. The heart of the Pharisee is within us all, to redefine God's law so it doesn't apply to me anymore. It applies to my neighbor but not to me.

Ron Pearce

#16. Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.

John Barton

#17. The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

Oswald Chambers

#18. Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.

Jostein Gaarder

#19. In my judgment, my buildings are considerably less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented from being treated like a sultan.

Jim Butcher

#20. The Age of Faith: and by 'faith' understand the denial of all scientific reasoning.

Rius

#21. Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing.

Matthew Perry

#22. There's just something terrifying about admitting you like someone. In a way, it's actually easier when there's no chance of anything happening. But there's this threshold where things suddenly become possible. And then your cards are on the table. And there you are, wanting, right out in the open.

Becky Albertalli

#23. Every sex scene is always, without a doubt, terribly funny.

Katee Sackhoff

#24. Life is a heroic faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and often with illegal guns.

Alan Dershowitz

#26. I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.

Osamu Dazai

#27. I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots
prostitute, housewife, saint
like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

Janet Fitch

#28. See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.

Guy Finley

#29. I collect underwear from my travels. Lace, lingerie, bodysuits ... they're like souvenirs.

Miranda Kerr

#30. Christ didn't join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield.

Criss Jami

#31. Dread invades the living room, finds her on the couch, presses on her, gets inside her where it swiftly grows bigger than she is until she is inside it, looking out from a rind of shadow.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#32. Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough.

Jonathan Woodgate

#33. Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.

Criss Jami