Holier Quotes

It's a 'holier-than-thou' approach. It says everyone else has to do this, but I'm better, I'm smarter, so I don't have to.' I'm not buying that. - Thomas Marten

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only. - William Blake

Ideas of superiority and inferiority arise only in a heart corrupted by egoism. If someone argues that he is higher or his religion is holier, it proves that he has missed the significance of his faith. - Sri Sathya Sai Baba

I think those that are holier-than-thou don't make jokes. They take themselves too seriously and Peeta doesn't take himself too seriously. This is what I believe in and I'm comfortable with that and I can make a joke here and there. - Josh Hutcherson

I draw circles and sacred boundaries about me; fewer and fewer climb with me up higher and higher mountains.I am building a mountain chain out of ever-holier mountains. - Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't even pretend we can occupy the Lib Dem holier-than-thou, hands-entirely-clean-and-entirely-empty-type stance. No, we are getting our hands dirty, and inevitably and totally understandably we are being accused of being just like any other politicians. - Nick Clegg

I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not! - Billy Ray Cyrus

Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality. - Grace Kelly

By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it. - Joseph Collins