Inspirational Quotes on Hypocrisy

“No devil is so dangerous as the religious devil.”

“Next to hypocrisy in religion, there is nothing worse than hypocrisy in friendship.”

“Never throw mud. You may miss your mark; but you must have dirty hands.”

“As in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works.”

“Testimonies are wonderful. But, so often our lives don’t fit our testimonies.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.”

“Those who complain most are most to be complained of.”

“Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.”

“It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.”

“Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.”

“If men's religion prevails not to conquer and cure the wickedness of their hearts, it shall not always serve for a cloak. The day is coming when hypocrites will be stripped of their fig-leaves.”

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

“The hypocrite's joy destroys his sorrow; his faith and false confidence destroys and excludes his repentance; his fear destroys his love; and his pretended love to God destroys his fear of him.”

“You can operate your business without Christ. You can make it run well. You can raise your family without Christ. You can even pastor a church without Christ. But if you do, you will find that there will be no fruit, no Christlikeness, no manifestation of that beautiful character which arrests the attention of others. Instead there will be a sham, a phony imitation of the real thing, which will drive people away from Christ and will produce nothing but a dull, mechanical religiosity.”

“It is a sad thing to be Christians at a supper, heathens in our shops, and devils in our closets.”

“Without the heart it is not worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really a hypocrite. We may truly be said to worship God-though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.”

“If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?”

“In judging of others, a man laboreth in vain, often erreth and easily sinneth; but in judging and examining himself, he always laboreth fruitfully.”