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Quotes about Hypocrisy

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
— Warren Wiersbe
“For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.
— Jeremiah 6:13
For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
— Isaiah 59:3
any age, since Christian religion was first propagated, hath wanted store of martyrs, is more to be attributed unto the negligence, ignorance, and hypocrisy, or want of courage in Christ's ambassadors, or appointed pastors, than unto the sincerity, mildness, or fidelity of the flock, especially of the bell-weathers or chief ringleaders, Jac. tom. 1 b. 4. c. 4;
— John Owen
Jesus wasn't real loving sometimes. He called the Pharisees vipers, snakes, whitewashed tombs. So, you have to understand the world in which we live is dangerous.
— Franklin Graham
Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.
— William Wilberforce
The indissoluble link between prideful self-love, aversion to truth, self-deception and hypocrisy is one of the great themes of the Bible—for example, the drumbeat repetition that "the way of a fool is right in his own eyes" (Prov 12:15). Sinful minds therefore claim both self-rightness in terms of truth and self-righteousness in terms of goodness.
— Os Guinness
Without truth there is no freedom, and without truth there is no freedom from hypocrisy. No one has ever seriously accused Jesus of hypocrisy, no one has ever been more severe on hypocrisy than Jesus, and no one has ever offered a sterner but more gracious and effective cure to hypocrisy than Jesus.
— Os Guinness
Many Christians who profess Christ do not live as though they possess Him.
— Billy Graham
Just because a person claims to be a Christian does not necessarily mean that he is one.
— Billy Graham
“The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.
— Matthew 23:2