Quotes About Hypocrisy

there is nothing so bad as a reformed anything, be it gambler, drunkard, or lecher. They are aye harder on folks wi' their vices than someone without them would be." Sir

We're too Christian to enjoy sin and too sinful to enjoy Christ. We've got just enough Jesus to be informed, but not enough to be transformed.

Grace is loving people for who they are, where they are. It's loving people *before* they change, not just *after* they change. And that grace is the difference between holy and holier-than-thou. Holiness, in its purest form, is irresistible. That's why sinners couldn't be kept away from Jesus. Hypocrisy has the opposite effect. It's as repulsive to the irreligious as the Pharisees' religiosity was to Jesus.

We fixate on sins of commission: Don't do this, don't do that—and you're OK. But that is holiness by subtraction. And it's more hypocrisy than holiness! It's the sins of omission—what you would have, could have, and should have done — that break the heart of your heavenly Father.

Phony never led anyone to Jesus.

The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.

We cannot serve the executed God and the god of religious respectability.

It is cynical, often hypocritical, and self-defeating to declare all drug offenders violent and then withdraw from them, especially from the poor among them, the resources needed to redress the problems that create drug use.

I have been the Pharisee tsk-tsking those who don't do things my/God's way. Not serving Jesus, but rather standing on His back to reach the high cookie jar so that I can serve myself.

This is a nation that professes to be a Christian nation," [Suelo] tells me, surveying his temporary kingdom. "And yet it's basically illegal to live according to the teachings of Jesus.

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath-day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

Classic? - a book which people praise and don't read.

Remember what the Bible says: He who is without sin, cast the first rock. And I shall smoketh it.

There's nothing funny about, 'Yeah, I took a First Class plane ticket and I went to some designer beach and made out with a Laotian slave girl.' Who cares?

It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.

The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.

He with the cleanest clothes isn't necessarily the cleanest.

Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.

It is funny that those who make the laws by which we are expected to live are usually the ones who have no regard for it.

Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.