Quotes about Hypocrisy
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
— A Powell Davies
Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.
— AW Tozer
If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.
— Charles Spurgeon
I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.
— Frederick Douglass
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.
— Charles Spurgeon
The appearance of religion only on Sunday proves that it is only an appearance.
— John Adams
If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.
— CS Lewis
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
— George Bernard Shaw
... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.
— Charles Dickens
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.
— Joseph Addison
The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.
— Thomas Paine
If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
— Jonathan Edwards