The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry-rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.
Hypocrisy Quotes
Hypocrisy is the Vaseline of social intercourse.
Even the handful of mentally competent critics got into difficulties over my demonstration of the economic deadlock in which the Salvation Army finds itself. Some of them thought that the Army would not have taken money from a distiller and a cannon founder: others thought it should not have taken it: all assumed more or […]
Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how […]
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, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make righteousness of their discoveries, […]
It is no fault of Christianity if a hypocrite falls into sin.
Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
Be not too hasty to trust, or to admire, the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit: but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world; we do not so often endeavour or wish to impose on others as on ourselves; we resolve to do right, […]
