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Quotes about Hypocrisy

With his white collar he forges god's name on every word he speaks
— John Updike
Dollars had once gathered like autumn leaves on the wooden collection plates; dollars were the flourishing sign of God's specifically American favor, made manifest in the uncountable millions of Carnegie and Mellon and Henry Ford and Catholina Lambert. But amid this fabled plenty the whiff of damnation had cleared of dollars and cents the parched ground around Clarence Wilmot.
— John Updike
There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
— Thomas Jefferson
The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.
— Miguel
The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
— Mark Twain
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.
— Samuel Johnson
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.
— Mark Batterson
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.
— Mark Batterson
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.
— Mark Batterson
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
— Warren Wiersbe
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
— Martin Luther
many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.
— Martin Luther