Quotes about Hypocrisy
Most Christians talk about prayer but don't pray.
— Peter Scazzero
The new law requires you to keep perpetual sabbath, and you, because you are idle for one day, suppose you are pious, not
— Philip Schaff
More Christian blood has been shed by Christians than by heathens and Mohammedans.
— Philip Schaff
Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.
— Philip Yancey
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions
— Jonathan Edwards
How much filth there is in the Church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much self-sufficiency.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Because we are more adult than actually mature, we tend to take our sins and baptize them, dressing them up as spiritual maturity.
— RC Sproul Jr.
If I say, "You are wrong for judging people" then by my own standard I am wrong for judging you.
— RC Sproul Jr.
Life is lived out in self-contained compartments with nothing to connect them. Their bowing recognizes the sacred. Their expoiting grants the material. In living they desecrate others without a twinge of conscience. Yet if anyone were to hint at desecrating that shrine, his life sould be in peril. Such is the amputation of religion that pays homage to God but would be the most surprised if God were ever to show up.
— Ravi Zacharias
You can have Jesus in your spirit and an outrgeous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called it's called religion. That's what it's called dead dry religion......Jesus said you are a bunch of white washed tombs full of dead men's bones, and I tell you if that didn't describe me I don't know what did, because on Sunday mornings I dressed it up and took it to church.
— Joyce Meyer
Years ago I heard a well-known Bible teacher say, "If you want to find a spiritual person, don't look in the church." He said that because in church you can't tell who is real and who is putting
— Joyce Meyer
The Bible is a record of sin, deceit, immorality of every kind, disobedience, hypocrisy and God's amazing grace and love. The heroes we admire were people just like us. They failed miserably at times, they sinned regularly, and yet they found love, acceptance, forgiveness and mercy to be the free gifts of God. His love drew them into intimate relationship with Him, empowered them to do great things, and taught them to enjoy the life that He has provided.
— Joyce Meyer