Quotes About Hypocrisy

All religions die of one disease - that of being found out

he hated the phony patriots, the goddamn goose-stepping flag-waving patriots, who really loved the status quo more than they loved the country and its promises unfulfilled.

O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending church, reading the bible, acts of kindness and charity-they all take on a certain pleasantness of the ego if we know that others will find out about them and think well of us. It is a deadly addiction for esteem that we have.

La venida del eterno Hijo de Dios al mundo como el Dios-hombre, Jesucristo, es un hecho histórico. Aun así, miles de personas dicen que creen este hecho, pero viven como todos los demás. Tienen las mismas ansiedades y las mismas frustraciones que el resto de la gente.

It seemed to me that much philosophical talk about meaning was just plain hypocritical.

Since 9/11 what we have seen, and now increasingly understand in more depth than Christians in past generations, is that the final enemies of Jesus and of His people are not who we thought they would be. It may be surprising to learn that the future prophesied destroyers of the United States, and the purported conquerors of the world, pray regularly each day, prohibit abortion, denounce homosexuality, and forbid alcohol. Who are these people? Christian fundamentalists? Well, not quite.

best soldiers to the southern Arabian tribal country and thus leaving Egypt defenseless in 1967, was not only a tactical military miscalculation; it was also strikingly hypocritical, coming from a man who had railed against foreign interference in his own country, and who would place pan-Arab unity at the top of his foreign policy agenda.

Fundamentalism only ever deepens public hypocrisy, not public morality.

Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do.

Preachers say: do as I say, not what I do

Sometimes the Devil doth preach.

My cool judgement is, that if all the other doctrines of devils which have been committed to writing since letters were in the world were collected together in one volume, it would fall short of this; and that, should a Prince form himself by this book, so calmly recommending hypocrisy, treachery, lying, robbery, oppression, adultery, whoredom, and murder of all kinds, Domitian or Nero would be an angel of light compared to that man.

We call our selves followers but we refuse to follow him to the Unreached. We call ourselves Christians but refuse to lay down our life as he did that they might have life. We sing songs for him with our lips but deny him with our lives

It is not at all pleasant to kill a living thing, but if we pretend that we can continue life without killing we would be nothing but hypocrites.

There are many who profess Christ, but who never become mature Christians.

Andy said, "Yonder goes a man who hates the sin, but he's willin' enough to take its wages." Shanty replied, "I'm glad I won't be wearin' his shoes when he walks up to the Golden Gates." "He's wearin' better shoes than me and you." "I'd rather be barefooted.

en esta ciudad que exalta en exceso los ánimos y hace promesas que luego no cumple.

She's no angel. He's no saint.

On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

What could be sweeter to us than to hear and persuade ourselves that we can be saved, even if we live like a savage beast? Even non-Christians see that this is false, and many of them shudder at Christian teachings when they observe how Christians live.

I react like everyone else, even like those I most despise; but I make up for it by deploring every action I commit, good or bad.

What a swarm of the pseudo-"delivered" stares down at us from the pinnacle of their salvation! Their conscience is clear—do they not claim to locate themselves above their actions? An intolerable swindle.

I repudiate those who exhibit their so-called "salvation" and prop it with a doctrine which does not emanate from themselves. To unmask them, to knock them off the pedestal they have hoisted themselves on, to hold them up to scorn is a campaign no one should remain indifferent to. For at any price we must keep those who have too clear a conscience from living and dying in peace.

Respectable people... What bastards!