126 Quotes About Hypocrisy

"We have all felt the brazenness of words without emotion, the hollowness, the unaccountable unpersuasiveness of eloquence behind which lies no love."

"They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels."

"If you cannot mold yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?"

"There are people who go about the world looking out for slights, and they are necessarily miserable, for they find them at every turn--especially the imaginary ones. One has the same pity for such men as for the very poor. They are the morally illiterate. They have had no real education, for they have never learned how to live."

"Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault."

"Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others."

"Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice."

"It was always about mere questions that the Pharisees were so busy."

"The Pharisees are not all dead yet, and are not all Jews."

"Those who complain most are most to be complained of."

"The pharisees minded what God spoke, but not what He intended. They were busy in the outward work of the hand, but incurious of the affections and choice of the heart. So God was served in the letter, they did not much inquire into His purpose; and therefore they were curious to wash their hands, but cared not to purify their hearts."

"Those that boast most of the religion may be suspected of partiality and hypocrisy in it."

"Many are ashamed to be seen as God made them; few are ashamed to be seen what the devil hath made them. Many are troubled at small defects in the outward man; few are troubled at the greatest deformities of the inward man; many buy artificial beauty to supply the natural; few spiritual, to supply the defects of the supernatural beauty of the soul."

"The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace."

"They simply do what as as they feel like doing."