Quotes about Hypocrisy
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
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
— Henry Ward Beecher
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
— Aesop
Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.
— Ayn Rand
For is it not the common experience of all of us - you and I - that we do no incorporate the truth of these propositions in our lives? We say we know, but we do not do as we know. We say we believe, but we do not act like it.
— James Sire