Quotes about Hypocrisy
By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man…. Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocrisies, have at times thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage like a lion.
— John Adams
Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.
— John Adams
Saint abroad, and a devil at home.
— John Bunyan
Neither will it out of my mind but that that man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world; for so surely as Judas designed the world in becoming religious, so surely did he also sell religion and his Master for the same.
— John Bunyan
It is hypocrisy alone that leads men to be careless about themselves, and haughtily to despise others.
— John Calvin
The human heart has so many recesses for vanity, so many lurking places for falsehood, is so shrouded by fraud and hypocrisy, that it often deceives itself.
— John Calvin
the only way the false teachers can make sail against us is by appearing to be endowed with the Spirit of God. But
— John Calvin
Since men's nature is prone to hypocrisy, it is easy for Satan to persuade them that the true worship of God consists in ceremonies and outward discipline.
— John Calvin
All those who go around draped with a false sanctimoniousness do it by the devil's prodding; because no one can worship God rightly with outward ceremonies, for true worshipers adore him in spirit and in truth (John 4:24).
— John Calvin
It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.
— JC Ryle
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
— St. Jerome
A saint abroad, and a devil at home.
— John Bunyan