Inspirational Quotes on Hypocrisy

“There is a great difference between painting a face and not washing it.”

“Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else.”

“We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.”

“Pride, perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.”

“The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.”

“A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.”

“When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.”

“Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Soulish believers relish using high-sounding spectacular words and phrases.”

“They simply do what as as they feel like doing.”

“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.”

“There is no grace that the spirit of self can counterfeit with more success than a religious zeal.”

“While the Christian commits a sin he hates it; whereas the hypocrite loves it while he forbears it.”

“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?”

“Many blush to confess their faults, who never blush to commit them.”

“Take heed, therefore, wicked prelates, blind leaders of the blind; indurate and obstinate hypocrites, take heed.”