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Quotes About Hypocrisy

A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!
~ Jean de la Bruyere
It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
~ Benjamin Haydon
The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.
~ Elizabeth Charles
If Jesus came back and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing-up.
~ Woody Allen
A Puritan is a person who lives in the fear that someone somewhere may be having a good time.
~ H. L. Mencken
The thing I hate about religion is, they ban what they have done and force us to do what they haven't done.
~ M.F. Moonzajer
Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Pay attention, behavior speaks… While preacher are telling you to pray for abundance, they're passing around a basket.
~ Steve Maraboli
When I look at the Church today, not just in Africa but worldwide, it seems to me that we have come to love darkness even if we are called Church or some other religious names.
~ Sunday Adelaja
Jesus was crucified for doing nothingAnd God is worshiped for even less.
~ Porcupine Tree
Religion imprisons God. By its own accord, if we are made in the image and likeness of God, then His condemnation of the sinner is an act of hypocrisy. I believe God to be greater than that.
~ Steve Maraboli
Why put yourself in charge of Heaven's cause?Does Heaven need our help to enforce its laws?
~ Molière, Tartuffe
Behavior speaks... When you need money, the church tells you to pray. When the church needs money, they pass around a basket.
~ Steve Maraboli
We get called dishonoring for pointing out the garbage in the church, yet nobody ever seems to think it's dishonoring that somebody put the garbage there in the first place.
~ D.R. Silva
Those who claim to be closest to God are furthest from Heaven.
~ Navonne Johns
The devil's most devilish when respectable.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
~ Jonathan Edwards
A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don't respect their victimhood, they'll destroy you.
~ Joseph Sobran
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
~ William Hazlitt
One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
~ George Bernard Shaw