Quotes about Hypocrisy
The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
— William Hazlitt
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
— William Hazlitt
As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.
— David Brainerd
It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.
— AW Pink
God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!
— F Scott Fitzgerald
If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.
— Francis Chan
If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.
— Charles Spurgeon
Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.
— John Calvin
The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.
— Thomas Adams
You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.
— Henry Ward Beecher
See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands, And justifies himself with lifted hands. Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes, Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries.
— John Bunyan
Many a professing Christian is a stumbling-block because his worship is divided. On Sunday he worships God; on weekdays God has little or no place in his thoughts.
— DL Moody