Inspirational Quotes on Hypocrisy

“Saint abroad, and a devil at home.”

“If we have no zeal for the glory of God our mercy must be superficial, man-centered human improvement with no eternal significance. And if our zeal for the glory of God is not a reveling in his mercy, than our so-called zeal, in spite of all its protests, is our of touch with God and hypocritical.”

“While our abandonment blesses or spares us, we shall find many to advise it; but let it bring us into trouble, and the most spiritually-minded will exclaim against it.”

“Those that boast most of the religion may be suspected of partiality and hypocrisy in it.”

“How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.”

“Though "the words of the wise be as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies," yet their examples are the hammer to drive them in to take the deeper hold. A father that whipped his son for swearing, and swore himself whilst he whipped him, did more harm by his example than good by his correction.”

“He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.”

“A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.”

“They simply do what as as they feel like doing.”

“Whitewash won't hold up a fence.”

“That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or past cure (389).”

“If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what I think of as my strong points; if I adopt a superior attitude, forgetting "Who made thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou hast not received?" then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

“With their doctrine they build, and with their lives they destroy.”

“This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.”

“Because there is one hypocrite, men set down all the rest the same. I heard one man say that he did not believe there was a true Christian living, because he had found so many hypocrites. I reminded him that there could be no hypocrites if there were no genuine Christians. No one would try to forge bank notes if there were no genuine ones.”

“Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.”

“When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.”

“The house of the formalist is as empty of religion as the white of an egg is of savor.”

“They that cry down moral honesty, cry down that which is a great part of my religion, my duty toward God, and my duty toward man. What care I to see a man run after a sermon, if he cozens and cheats as soon as he comes home. On the other side, morality must not be without religion; for if so, it may change, as I see convenience.”

“Farewell unhappy, hopeless, blasphemous Rome! The Wrath of God has come upon you, as you deserve. We cared for Babylon, and she is not healed; let us then leave her, that she may become the habitation of dragons, spectres, and witches.”