Quotes about Hypocrites
You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you:
— Matthew 15:7
But Jesus knew their evil intent and said, “You hypocrites, why are you testing Me?
— Matthew 22:18
Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
— Matthew 24:51
Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without even noticing.”
— Luke 11:44
Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.
— Luke 11:47
Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics eases and all things seem to be at peace.
— Martin Luther
Sometimes it ain't the drunk or the sinner who needs a shovel across the rear, it's the ones who could quote you chapter and verse about grace, but don't hand it out.
— Lisa Wingate
Is you own religion authentic or false? genuine or fake? I do not ask what you think about others. Perhaps you may see many hypocrites around you. You may be able to point to many who have no "authenticity" at all. This is not the question. You may be right in your opinion about others. But I want to know about yourself. Is your own Christianity authentic and true? or nominal and counterfeit?
— JC Ryle
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites ihay be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.
— Laurence Sterne
You make irreligion a religion. Leave the hypocrites up to me.
— Max Lucado
They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering about the earth during the week, poking his nose into their business, and looking in the depths and darkness and doubleness of their hearts, and their lack of true charity; and they believed they need only be bothered about him on Sundays when they have their best clothes on and their faces straight, and their hands washed and their gloves on, and their stories all prepared.
— Margaret Atwood
There may be coarse hypocrites, who consciously affect beliefs and emotions for the sake of gulling the world, but Bulstrode was not one of them. He was simply a man whose desires had been stronger than his theoretic beliefs, and who had gradually explained the gratification of his desires into satisfactory agreement with those beliefs. If this be hypocrisy, it is a process which shows itself occasionally in us all....
— George Eliot