Sentences with phrase «log in one's own eye»

It has to do with that annoying log in your eye, you just can't see the truth about yourself.
We have such logs in our eyes, our bent in onto ourselves (incurvatus sumus, or some such Latin phrase) is so forceful we can hardly unbend it when we perceive it.
True Christians are imperfect people that strive to better themselves in the eyes of God, if we worry about someone else's sin we will stumble and fall due to the log in our eye.
In short, the Church criticizing Republicans for not caring enough about the poor (which I agree with) is a little like the biblical «man with a log in his eye pointing out someone else's splinter» scenario.
How's that log in your eye?
But somehow this lifestyle of people fornicating and calling themselves Christians and not seeing the log in their eye while seeing the toothpick in someone else's eye has got to stop.
I am ashamed by our lack of imagination, ashamed by our hypocrisy, ashamed by the heavy loads we bind up to place on people's backs, ashamed by the logs in our eyes and the stones in our hands.
How different would be the certainly inevitable controversies in the Church if all parties would fight honestly, admitting the weaknesses and dangers of their own position, if they would only acknowledge at least the speck in their own eye while they think themselves obliged to take exception to the log in the eye of their neighbour.
Look in the mirror that log in your eye is huge!
It's the picture of the «log eye» guy, the guy with the log in his eye.
How dare he put the log in the eye of all viewers by in essence saying prayer is a one idea concept, and by virtue of his wrongness he states that prayer is the norm for our government.
Often there's those logs in my eyes that keep me from seeing the truth of myself.
Don't get me wrong - I am certainly no angel and probably have a log in each eye.
- LIE, Actually since you view it that way it's actually yourself that is doing that, how's that log in your eye doing... getting bigger.
And I get to feel all vindicated and righteous for about seven minutes before the weight of the log in my eye starts to pull my whole head down.
Removing the log in my eye is the only way to legitimize any right to expose the speck in another's.»
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