Quotes about Hypocrisy

There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.

We're too Christian to enjoy sin and too sinful to enjoy Christ. We've got just enough Jesus to be informed, but not enough to be transformed.

Grace is loving people for who they are, where they are. It's loving people *before* they change, not just *after* they change. And that grace is the difference between holy and holier-than-thou. Holiness, in its purest form, is irresistible. That's why sinners couldn't be kept away from Jesus. Hypocrisy has the opposite effect. It's as repulsive to the irreligious as the Pharisees' religiosity was to Jesus.

We fixate on sins of commission: Don't do this, don't do that—and you're OK. But that is holiness by subtraction. And it's more hypocrisy than holiness! It's the sins of omission—what you would have, could have, and should have done — that break the heart of your heavenly Father.

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.

many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.

Sometimes the curses of the godless sound better than the hallelujahs of the pious.

Without Christ there is no access to the Father, but futile rambling; no truth, but hypocrisy; no life, but eternal death.

It did not please me, either, that the Christians and the princes were driven, urged, and irritated into attacking the Turk and making war on him, before they amended their own ways and lived like true Christians.