Truth without obedience is hypocrisy; obedience without truth is legalism.
– Jack Wellman
Hypocrisy | Obedience
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
– Warren Wiersbe
Love | Truth | Hypocrisy
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
– Matthew Henry
Hypocrisy | Boasting
It is a sad thing to be Christians at a supper, heathens in our shops, and devils in our closets.
– Stephen Charnock
Hypocrisy
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Hypocrisy | Friendship
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
– Charles Spurgeon
Hypocrisy | Enemies
I believe there are too many practitioners in the church who are not believers.
– C.S. Lewis
Hypocrisy
Next to hypocrisy in religion, there is nothing worse than hypocrisy in friendship.
– Joseph Hall
Hypocrisy | Friendship
Those that boast most of the religion may be suspected of partiality and hypocrisy in it.
– Matthew Henry
Religion | Hypocrisy | Boasting
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
– Thomas Fuller
Hypocrisy | Believing
Their quest for the presence of God, for the consciousness of His mercy and nearness, is not for God’s sake but for their happiness. By so doing they are not loving the Lord; rather, they are loving the feeling which refreshes them and affords them the glory of the third heaven. Their total life and labor elevate self as the center. They wish to enjoy themselves.
– Watchman Nee
Hypocrisy
A divided heart loses both worlds.
– A. B. Simpson
Hypocrisy | The Heart
More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers. It was commitment that thinned the ranks.
– Chuck Swindoll
Selfishness | Hypocrisy | Commitment
Pride, perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
– Thomas Fuller
Pride | Hypocrisy
The Pharisees broke Moses’ tables into pieces, and, gathering up the fragments, took to themselves what part of duty they pleased, and left the rest alone.
– Jeremy Taylor
Hypocrisy
Without the heart it is not worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really a hypocrite. We may truly be said to worship God-though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.
– Stephen Charnock
The Heart | Worship | Hypocrisy
How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
– Thomas a Kempis
Hypocrisy
The schoolmaster deserves to be beaten himself who beats nature in a boy for a fault. And I question whether all the whippings in the world can make their parts which are naturally sluggish rise one minute before the hour nature hath appointed.
– Thomas Fuller
Hypocrisy
Some people go to church and shout “amen” louder than everyone else, thinking it proves how spiritual they are. In reality, it only proves they have a loud mouth and the disposition of an exhibitionist. They make themselves the center of attention instead of Jesus.
– John Hagee
Hypocrisy
You can operate your business without Christ. You can make it run well. You can raise your family without Christ. You can even pastor a church without Christ. But if you do, you will find that there will be no fruit, no Christlikeness, no manifestation of that beautiful character which arrests the attention of others. Instead there will be a sham, a phony imitation of the real thing, which will drive people away from Christ and will produce nothing but a dull, mechanical religiosity.
– Ray C. Stedman
Hypocrisy | Rebellion
It is perilous to separate thinking rightly, from acting rightly. He is already half false who speculates on truth and does not do it. The penalty paid by him who speculates on truth without doing it, is, that by degrees the very truth he holds becomes a falsehood.
– Frederick W. Robertson
Hypocrisy
Many blush to confess their faults, who never blush to commit them.
– William Secker
Hypocrisy | Confession
The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.
– Thomas Adams
Hypocrisy | Atheism
If men’s religion prevails not to conquer and cure the wickedness of their hearts, it shall not always serve for a cloak. The day is coming when hypocrites will be stripped of their fig-leaves.
– Matthew Henry
Religion | Hypocrisy
In judging of others, a man laboreth in vain, often erreth and easily sinneth; but in judging and examining himself, he always laboreth fruitfully.
– Thomas a Kempis
Hypocrisy | Judging
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
– Blaise Pascal
Hypocrisy
The ability to find fault is believed, by some people, to be a sure sign of great wisdom, when, in most cases, it only indicates narrowness of mind and ill nature.
– James H. Aughey
Hypocrisy
There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men’s own righteousness.
– Jonathan Edwards
Hypocrisy | Righteousness | Deception
It is of no use for any of you to try to be soul-winners if you are not bearing fruit in your own lives. How can you serve the Lord with your lips if you do not serve Him with your lives? How can you preach His gospel with your tongues, when with hands, feet, and heart you are preaching the devil’s gospel, and setting up an antichrist by your practical unholiness?
– Charles Spurgeon
Hypocrisy
Saint abroad and a devil at home.
– John Bunyan
Hypocrisy
Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
– Francois Fenelon
Children | Hypocrisy
It varies with different personalities. Some will keep quiet. They have not yet attained freedom from natural shyness and fear. They may sit next to those talkative believers and criticize them in heart, but their silence does not make them any less soulish. Because they are not rooted in God and have not therefore learned how to be hidden in Him, carnal people long to be seen. They experience unspeakable joy whenever recognized and respected.
– Watchman Nee
Carnality | Hypocrisy | Criticism
Do not burn false fire upon God’s altar; do not pose and pretend, either to Him or to yourself, in your religious exercises; do not say more than you mean, or use exaggerated language that goes beyond the facts, when speaking to Him whose word is truth.
– Jeremy Taylor
Hypocrisy
The hypocrite’s joy destroys his sorrow; his faith and false confidence destroys and excludes his repentance; his fear destroys his love; and his pretended love to God destroys his fear of him.
– Ralph Erskine
Hypocrisy
Because the carnal are greatly talented – active in thought, rich in emotion – they readily arouse people’s interest and stir the latter’s hearts. Consequently, soulish Christians usually possess magnetic personalities. They can quickly win the acclamation of the common people. Yet the fact remains that they actually are lacking in spiritual power. They do not contain the living flow of the power of the Holy Spirit.
– Watchman Nee
Carnality | Hypocrisy
There is no grace that the spirit of self can counterfeit with more success than a religious zeal.
– William Cowper
Hypocrisy | Zeal
Thou must be an attentive hearer; he that is awake, but wanders with his eye or heart, what doth he but sleep with his eyes open?
– William Gurnall
Hypocrisy
Emotion is what believers mistake most for spirituality. Carnal Christians whose tendency is emotional in character habitually crave sensation in their lives. They desire to sense the presence of God in their hearts or their sensory organs; they yearn to feel a love-fire burning. They want to feel elated, to be uplifted in spiritual life, to be prosperous in work. True, spiritual believers sometimes do have such sensations, yet their progress and joy are not contingent upon these. The soulish are quite different in this respect: with such sensations, they can serve the Lord; without them, they can scarcely move a step.
– Watchman Nee
Carnality | Ignorance | Hypocrisy
When are Christian folks going to remember that every time you call yourself a Christian, you invoke the name of God, and that if you then walk a walk that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, cast a vote that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, then you are taking the name of the Lord your God in vain?
– Alan Keyes
Christians | Hypocrisy
How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, His precepts!
– Assorted Authors
Christmas | Hypocrisy
Whitewash won’t hold up a fence.
– Woodrow Kroll
Hypocrisy
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
– G.K. Chesterton
Hypocrisy
There is a place deep inside where the real person guards his secret thoughts and true intentions. Solomon warns his son that what a man says is often a deceit to hide what he really is inside.
– Dave Hunt
Hypocrisy
Those who are surly and imperious to their inferiors are generally humble, flattering, and cringing to their superiors.
– Thomas Fuller
Hypocrisy
The house of the formalist is as empty of religion as the white of an egg is of savor.
– John Bunyan
Hypocrisy
The sneer at the godly man for his imperfections is ill-judged. A blade is a small thing. At first it grows very near the earth. It is often soiled and crushed and downtrodden. But it is a living thing,… and “it doth not yet appear what it shall be.”
– Henry Drummond
Hypocrisy
While I disparage the exercise of “building one’s self-esteem” I indulge in it every time I imagine myself free from the defects I perceive in someone else.
– Elisabeth Elliot
Hypocrisy
Prescribe no positive laws to thy will; for thou mayest be forced tomorrow to drink the same water thou despisest today.
– Thomas Fuller
Hypocrisy | Discretion
Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God’s verdict.
– John Calvin
Hypocrisy | Self-esteem
Steal the hog, and give the feet for alms.
– George Herbert
Hypocrisy
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Hypocrisy
No devil is so dangerous as the religious devil.
– Joseph Hall
Hypocrisy
Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
– Thomas a Kempis
Hypocrisy
How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!
– Thomas Brooks
Hypocrisy
He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.
– Thomas Fuller
Hypocrisy
As in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works.
– Joseph Hall
Hypocrisy
Many hope the tree may be felled that they may gather chips by the fall.
– Thomas Fuller
Hypocrisy
Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.
– C.S. Lewis
Hypocrisy | Men
An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.
– C.S. Lewis
Hypocrisy
A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.
– Thomas Watson
Prayer | Hypocrisy
Never throw mud. You may miss your mark; but you must have dirty hands.
– Joseph Hall
Hypocrisy
Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.
– Thomas Carlyle
Hypocrisy | Piety
Farewell unhappy, hopeless, blasphemous Rome! The Wrath of God has come upon you, as you deserve. We cared for Babylon, and she is not healed; let us then leave her, that she may become the habitation of dragons, spectres, and witches.
– Martin Luther
Hypocrisy
If a sinner comes into your assembly or you otherwise come into contact with him, remember that he is a human being for whom Christ died. He stands at the foot of the cross, just as you stand at the foot of the cross.
– J. Vernon McGee
Hypocrisy | The Cross
He, who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it.
– Thomas Adams
Hypocrisy
Those who please all men at all times ought deservedly to look on themselves with suspicion.
– Assorted Authors
Hypocrisy | Men
Don’t let your will roar when your power only whispers.
– Thomas Fuller
Hypocrisy | Power
It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.
– Charles Spurgeon
Hypocrisy
If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?
– Thomas a Kempis
Hypocrisy
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose’s trial.
– Thomas Fuller
Hypocrisy
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.
– Abraham Wright
Hypocrisy
It is easier to declaim like an orator against a thousand sins in others than to mortify one sin in ourselves; to be more industrious in our pulpits than in our closets; to preach twenty sermons to our people than one to our own hearts.
– John Flavel
Hypocrisy
The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood lurks, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.
– John Calvin
Hypocrisy
Take heed, therefore, wicked prelates, blind leaders of the blind; indurate and obstinate hypocrites, take heed.
– William Tyndale
Hypocrisy
There is a great difference between painting a face and not washing it.
– Thomas Fuller
Hypocrisy
They that cry down moral honesty, cry down that which is a great part of my religion, my duty toward God, and my duty toward man. What care I to see a man run after a sermon, if he cozens and cheats as soon as he comes home. On the other side, morality must not be without religion; for if so, it may change, as I see convenience.
– John Selden
Preaching | Hypocrisy
An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons – marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.
– C.S. Lewis
Habits | Hypocrisy
Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
– George Herbert
Hypocrisy
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
– Thomas Fuller
Hypocrisy
Hypocrites do the devil’s drudgery in Christ’s livery.
– Matthew Henry
Hypocrisy
When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.
– Hannah More
Hypocrisy | Reading
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
– Charles Spurgeon
Hypocrisy | Wealth
Right Pharisees, by their long-winded prayers winding themselves into the opinions of some and the estates of others.
– Assorted Authors
Hypocrisy
We can’t give our all to Jesus and keep some for ourselves.
– Woodrow Kroll
Hypocrisy
This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
– C.S. Lewis
Hypocrisy
When are Christian folks going to remember that every time you call yourself a Christian, you invoke the name of God, and that if you then walk a walk that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, cast a vote that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, then you are taking the name of the Lord your God in vain?
– Alan Keyes
Christians | Hypocrisy
Carnal Christians tend to show off their differences and superiorities in clothing, speech or deeds. They desire to shock people into a recognition of all their undertakings.
– Watchman Nee
Carnality | Hypocrisy
Nothing is sadder than profession without possession.
– Harry Ironside
Hypocrisy
If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what I think of as my strong points; if I adopt a superior attitude, forgetting “Who made thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou hast not received?” then I know nothing of Calvary love.
– Amy Carmichael
Hypocrisy | Attitude
The lion is not so fierce as painted.
– Thomas Fuller
Hypocrisy
How many prodigals are kept out of the Kingdom of God by the unlovely character of those who profess to be inside!
– Henry Drummond
Hypocrisy
The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success.
– C.S. Lewis
Hypocrisy | Worldliness
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
– Edmund Burke
Hypocrisy
Soulish believers relish using high-sounding spectacular words and phrases.
– Watchman Nee
Hypocrisy
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
– Charles Spurgeon
Hypocrisy
They made pretenses to very superior sanctity when they had a mind to disturb everything.
– Augustine
Hypocrisy
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
– Francois Fenelon
Hypocrisy
You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Hypocrisy
Though “the words of the wise be as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies,” yet their examples are the hammer to drive them in to take the deeper hold. A father that whipped his son for swearing, and swore himself whilst he whipped him, did more harm by his example than good by his correction.
– Thomas Fuller
Hypocrisy | Examples | Children
While the Christian commits a sin he hates it; whereas the hypocrite loves it while he forbears it.
– William Gurnall
Hypocrisy | Sin