Quotes about Hypocrisy

Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.

The theology you live out is much more important to your daily life than the theology you claim to believe.

Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.

That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.

Why should we be indignant about slanders directed against a human friend, while at the same time we are patient about the basest slanders directed against our God?

How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.

To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought is terrifying.

There is something insincere about a man or woman who repeatedly tells God how much he or she loves Him while refusing to obey Him.

In the meantime, let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to know them, if only for the purpose of avoiding them. The counterfeits of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. This specter, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport. Let us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage and let us tear off the mask.

isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? the potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? the drink that does nothing worse than incite its fans to urinate in all innocence, to gain weight in all frankness?