Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a "surly, illmannered, badtempered fellow." ... Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, the pretenses and evasions of euphemism, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires of empiric fact, common sense, and native intelligence. In this nation of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labeled curmudgeon.
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.
The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.
Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.
He that puts on a religious habit abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be uncovered by God and presented before all the world for a most outrageous hypocrite.
The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
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