Quotes About Hypocrisy

They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Men are fast to call lady's whore but must faster to put their manhood in one.

Surely the hypocrites strive to deceive Allah, and He shall requite their deceit to them, and when they stand up to prayer they stand up sluggishly; they do it only to be seen of men and do not remember Allah save a little. (The Women 4.142)

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.

The ones who preach most about love are often the same ones who refuse to love the unlovable.

There is a difference between speaking the truth in love and judging someone hypocritically...make sure you know the difference before you speak!

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

Nadie protege la moral de manera más estricta que el propio infractor furtivo, pues éste tiene claro que la humanidad naufragaría si todos los seres humanos tuviesen la posibilidad de vivir como él.

Look at this leper accusing another leper of leprosy.

A Pharisee is one who wants to get the right formula and do it right and fix everything and feel very wonderful.

I have always found it puzzling that men believe it perfectly acceptable to take their pleasure where they may without guilt or recriminations, but when women do the same, they are branded whores and trulls.

In her final months [Princess] Diana was being shat upon by the tabloids -- basically for sleeping with an Arab. When she died, these same papers were astonished by the millennial wave of emotionalism that swept the country ... [One paper] had a print-ready story about what a slag the Princess was, and they had to pull it at the last moment. It was replaced with an image of Diana as an angel, ascending to heaven.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.

many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.

to call a man without the Holy Spirit "upright and God-fearing" is the same as calling Belial "Christ".

Sometimes the curses of the godless sound better than the hallelujahs of the pious.

Without Christ there is no access to the Father, but futile rambling; no truth, but hypocrisy; no life, but eternal death.

For when the heart is evil, all its works are evil, no matter how splendid they are. [And here it is clear that God is speaking, because He judges their hearts.] 1 And this word aptly and clearly expresses the nature of hypocrisy, which is a righteous performance in the eyes of men on earth, but is evil in the heart. Such are all heretics, all pretenders who create an appearance in public to which their heart does not correspond.

When the article of justification is lost, nothing remains except error, hypocrisy, godlessness, and idolatry.

Nothing is prettier, better, or holier in the sight of men than idolatry and godlessness adorned with hypocrisy and a show of piety. An evil deed in the sight of God, however, is one that is undertaken without faith and the Word, by our own efforts, however good and beautiful it may appear.