Quotes About Hypocrisy

Since men's nature is prone to hypocrisy, it is easy for Satan to persuade them that the true worship of God consists in ceremonies and outward discipline; men

all those who go around draped with a false sanctimoniousness do it by the devil's prodding; because no one can worship God rightly with outward ceremonies, for true worshipers adore him in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). Secondly

Dickens' hypocrites are the prime beneficiaries of his inventive genius. The heroes and heroines have no imagination. We could scrap all the solemn parts of his novels without impairing his status as a writer. But we could not remove Mrs. Gamp or Pecksniff or Bounderby without maiming him irreparably.

Perhaps, he considered, her hypocrisy had become so ingrained that she was no longer even capable of perceiving it as such.

The plain fact is that Kim Davis wanted to hold gay people to a different standard than her fellow divorcees: For gays, she would enforce "God's law" here on earth. For divorcees, "That's between them and God." Like so many of her fellow social conservatives, she selectively cited the Bible to justify discrimination against a marginalized group while giving a free pass to those in the majority like herself. Such

When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.

The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.

One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.

I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.

The Christianity that had come in my life as a child was all this idea that you're never going to see God. It's like hypocrisy, in a way.

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.

Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

I think it would be really hypocritical of me to make the films I make, where I delve into people's lives, to say that my life can't be looked at or that I have to be this pristine, isolated figure.

The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

Another, less polite way of saying it: People with attention issues tend to have acute bullshit detectors. We hate hypocrisy maybe more than any other human failing, and we can spot it a mile away.

Thinking that you are good can make you bad. Talking about positive behavior can encourage negative behavior. Laozi is clearly on to something when he warns us that consciously trying to be righteous will, in fact, turn us into insufferable hypocrites and that anyone striving to attain virtue is destined to fail.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

A hypocrite cannot hide a longer its hypocrisy and breaks the reality itself that it poses. It just disgusts and repels harmony and unity.

A hypocritical person causes mental anguish; whereas, a hypocritical society makes life hell.

Conditions in goodness are a route of hypocrisy.