Self-complacency
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(n.) The quality of being self-complacent.
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Letter xvii. --Confidence in God.
... would be impossible for us to recognise any gift of God in ourselves without being
exposed to spoil and corrupt it by imperceptible feelings of self-complacency ...
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Letter xiii. --Peace and Confidence.
... you anxiety. It is necessary that this should happen, to prevent
self-complacency and self-love which would spoil all. Be satisfied ...
/.../abandonment to divine providence/letter xiii peace and confidence.htm

The Thirty-Second Chapter: Self-Denial and the Renunciation of ...
... Put aside earthly wisdom, all human self-complacency. I have said: exchange what
is precious and valued among men for that which is considered contemptible. ...
/.../kempis/the imitation of christ/the thirty-second chapter self-denial and.htm

Satisfied from Self
... At first sight this saying strikes one as somewhat unlike the ordinary Scripture
tone, and savouring rather of a Stoical self-complacency; but we recall ...
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Letter xx. Self-Examination.
... Have I murmured at the dispensations of Providence? Have I indulged self-complacency
or self-seeking? What views have I had of myself? How did they affect me? ...
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Showing How Some Men Live Contrary to These Exercises
... But when a man wishes to practise and possess it without acts of virtue, he falls
into spiritual pride and a self-complacency, from which he seldom recovers. ...
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Letter xv. --Perfect Detachment.
... grace, so complete and so profound that one is tempted to imagine it purely natural;
and God permits this to prevent the artifices of self-complacency, and to ...
/.../de caussade/abandonment to divine providence/letter xv perfect detachment.htm

The First Beatitude
... brethren, if we would only go down into the depths of our own hearts, every one
of us would find there more than enough to make all self-complacency and self ...
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August 12. "Not Ourselves, but Christ Jesus" (ii. Cor. Iv. 5).
... us is a little i, and over every one of us there is a little dot of self-importance,
self-will, self-interest, self-confidence, self-complacency, or something ...
/.../simpson/days of heaven upon earth /august 12 not ourselves but.htm

Lorimer -- the Fall of Satan
... not be good, because they pandered to his monstrous self-infatuation, Guiteau, having
wrought himself up through many years of self-complacency, claims to have ...
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Thesaurus
Self-complacency (1 Occurrence)
Self-complacency. Self-avenger, Self-complacency. Self-conceit . Noah Webster's
Dictionary ... Multi-Version Concordance Self-complacency (1 Occurrence). ...
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Removing (24 Occurrences)
... 1 Corinthians 5:2 And you, instead of mourning and removing from among you the man
who has done this deed of shame, are filled with self-complacency! (WEY). ...
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Mourning (85 Occurrences)
... (See NAS). 1 Corinthians 5:2 And you, instead of mourning and removing from among
you the man who has done this deed of shame, are filled with self-complacency! ...
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Self-conceit (1 Occurrence)
Self-conceit. Self-complacency, Self-conceit. Self-condemned . Noah Webster's
Dictionary ... (See RSV). Self-complacency, Self-conceit. Self-condemned . ...
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Self-avenger (2 Occurrences)
Self-avenger. Self-assertive, Self-avenger. Self-complacency . Multi-Version
Concordance ... (YLT). Self-assertive, Self-avenger. Self-complacency . ...
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Laban (52 Occurrences)
... related to Laban such figures are, the more conspicuously, as is fitting, do they
exhibit Laban's mingled cunning, resourcefulness, greed and self-complacency. ...
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Instead (139 Occurrences)
... (WEY NIV). 1 Corinthians 5:2 And you, instead of mourning and removing from among
you the man who has done this deed of shame, are filled with self-complacency! ...
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Shame (412 Occurrences)
... 1 Corinthians 5:2 And you, instead of mourning and removing from among you the man
who has done this deed of shame, are filled with self-complacency! (WEY). ...
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Salvation (386 Occurrences)
... (3) Where self-complacency ceased and a strong moral sense was present,
despair makes its appearance with extraordinary frequency. ...
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Filled (336 Occurrences)
... 1 Corinthians 5:2 And you, instead of mourning and removing from among you the man
who has done this deed of shame, are filled with self-complacency! (WEY NIV). ...
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Resources
Why did Jesus speak so strongly against lukewarm faith? | GotQuestions.org

What does the Bible say about self-gratification / self-pleasure? | GotQuestions.org

What is the god of self? | GotQuestions.org

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