Quotes about Hypocrisy

No sooner is a playhouse opened in any part of the Kingdom than it at once becomes surrounded by a halo of brothels.

For a matter of seconds, he felt an immense satisfaction that he could talk of suffering to them now without hypocrisy--it is hard for the sleek and well-fed priest to praise poverty.

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

If anyone says, 'I love God,' but hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen" (1 Jn 4:20).

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

Worse than traitors in arms are the men who, pretending loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the nation.

Those who pretend that they can mend others should first mend themselves, and then they will be more readily believed.

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.

It's much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

a false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.

if we are on the look-out for evil in others, our real motive is obviously to justify ourselves, for we are seeking to escape punishment for our own sins by passing judgement on others, and are assuming by implication that the Word of God applies to ourselves in one way, and to others in another.

In such a Church the world finds a cheap covering for its sins; no contrition is required, still less any real desire to be delivered from sin.