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Quotes About Hypocrisy

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
~ Bette Davis
At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
~ Banksy
Every religion there's something foul going on.
~ Ja Rule
Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.
~ Charles Spurgeon
I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.
~ Frederick Douglass
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The appearance of religion only on Sunday proves that it is only an appearance.
~ John Adams
If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.
~ C. S. Lewis
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
~ George Bernard Shaw
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
~ Ben Jonson
... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.
~ Charles Dickens
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
~ Lucretius
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.
~ Joseph Addison
Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?
~ John Adams
Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.
~ Neal Boortz
The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.
~ Thomas Paine
They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.
~ Augustus William Hare
You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called, it's called religion.
~ Joyce Meyer
A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law
~ Benjamin Franklin
If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.
~ Oswald Chambers
I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.
~ Keith Ablow, Denial
Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
~ George Herbert