Inspirational Quotes on Hypocrisy

“Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.”

“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.”

“It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.”

“It is of no use for any of you to try to be soul-winners if you are not bearing fruit in your own lives. How can you serve the Lord with your lips if you do not serve Him with your lives? How can you preach His gospel with your tongues, when with hands, feet, and heart you are preaching the devil's gospel, and setting up an antichrist by your practical unholiness?”

“More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers. It was commitment that thinned the ranks.”

“There is a place deep inside where the real person guards his secret thoughts and true intentions. Solomon warns his son that what a man says is often a deceit to hide what he really is inside.”

“Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.”

“Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor. ”

“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.”

“Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.”

“If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.”

“It is perilous to separate thinking rightly, from acting rightly. He is already half false who speculates on truth and does not do it. The penalty paid by him who speculates on truth without doing it, is, that by degrees the very truth he holds becomes a falsehood.”

“Experience tells us that each man most keenly and unerringly detects in others the vice with which he is most familiar himself.”

“Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.”

“Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.”

“Steal the hog, and give the feet for alms.”

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

“We have all felt the brazenness of words without emotion, the hollowness, the unaccountable unpersuasiveness of eloquence behind which lies no love.”

“The sneer at the godly man for his imperfections is ill-judged. A blade is a small thing. At first it grows very near the earth. It is often soiled and crushed and downtrodden. But it is a living thing,... and "it doth not yet appear what it shall be."”

“How many prodigals are kept out of the Kingdom of God by the unlovely character of those who profess to be inside!”