Hypocrite Quotes - Page 5

• In some sense we are all hypocrites in transition.

  Erwin McManus

  Humility, Transition

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2013). “An Unstoppable Force: Daring to Become the Church God Had in Mind”, p.267, David C Cook

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• The heart of the hypocrite is hid in his breast he masketh his words in the semblance of truth, while the business of his life is only to deceive.

  Akhenaton

  Lying, Heart, Deceit

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• No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

  Francois Fenelon

  Mind, Conviction, Force

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• It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Motivation, Men

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• It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.

  St. Jerome

  Fall, Faults, Sin

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.515, Jazzybee Verlag

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• After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powerful: To do otherwise would force whites to either push for change (which they would perceive as against their interests) or live consciously as hypocrites who speak of freedom and opportunity but perpetuate a system of inequality.

  Tim Wise

  Powerful, Opportunity, People

  Tim Wise (2008). “Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male”, p.61, Soft Skull Press

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• The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.

  Vance Havner

  Real, Coffee, Home

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• Who am I? this or the other?
  Am I one person today and tomorrow another?
  Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others,
  and before myself a contemptible woebegone weakling?
  Or is something within me still like a beaten army fleeing
  in disorder from a victory already achieved?
  Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine.
  Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine!

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Lonely, Army, Victory

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The agnostic has a very curious notion of religion. He is convinced that a man who says 'I believe in God' should at once become perfect; if this does not happen, then the believer must be a fraud and a hypocrite. He thinks that adherence to a religion is the end of the road, whereas it is in fact only the beginning of a very long and sometimes very rough road. He looks for consistency in religious people, however aware he may be of inconsistencies in himself

  Charles le Gai Eaton

  Religious, Believe, Thinking

  Gai Eaton (1985). “Islam and the Destiny of Man”, p.58, SUNY Press

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• An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

  Alexander Pope

  Atheist, Mad, Hypocrisy

  Alexander Pope, Owen Ruffhead (1807). “Poetry and letters-1807”, p.109

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• Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Eagles, Hypocrisy

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• Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.

  John Milton

  Mysterious, Innocence, Purity

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 738

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• When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter. Now I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm starting to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.

  Russell Brand

  Thinking, Complaining, Want

  Russell Brand (2014). “Revolution”, p.101, Ballantine Books

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• There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Perfect, World, Defects

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• Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

  Laurence Sterne

  Hypocrisy, Criticism, Literature

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 3, ch. 12

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• To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description. It also, at the same time, identifies you with saints and the finest persons of heroic soul within every time, country, race, and gender. To be a member of the church is to carry the mantle of both the worst sin and the finest heroism of soul . . . because the church always looks exactly as it looked at the original crucifixion, God hung among thieves.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Country, Children, Race

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• The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.

  E. M. Forster

  Thinking, Islands, Hands

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• We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.

  John Piper

  Names, Trying, Praise

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.23, Multnomah

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• People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.

  Rumi

  People, Desire, Turns

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• There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same.

  Frank Herbert

  Rebel, Selfless, Conscious

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.32, Penguin

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• Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Severity, Gentleness

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• If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Hypocrisy, Heaven

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

  Samantha Power

  Rights, Historical, Abuse

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• What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

  Augustus Hare

  Heart, Humble, Sound

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• Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.

  Ouida

  Laughter, Men, Tears

  Ouida (2005). “Moths”, p.257, Broadview Press

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