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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
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Brief Overview - Christians Are Hypocrites: Most of us know individuals who claim to be “Christians”, but clearly don’t practice what they preach. Given this clear hypocrisy, why would anyone reasonably entertain playing a role in the “Christian Story”? To discover why even if the "story teller" might be personally flawed, the story itself might still be true, - Click - on buttons below (Complete Overview or "Display by Category/All" or Author Name)
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It is easier to cry against one-thousand sins of others than to kill one of your own
- John Flavel -
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I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hate the corrupt, slave-holding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.
- Frederick Douglass -
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Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.
- St. Francis de Sales -
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Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
- Warren W. Wiersbe -
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There is something of the hypocrites in us all.
- Derek J. Prime -
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Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.
- D. L. Moody -
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I would not utter what I believed to be a falsehood concerning the Lord, even though the evil one offered me the bait of saving all mankind thereby.
- Charles Spurgeon -
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A hypocrite may well be termed a religious atheist, an atheist masked with religion.
- Stephen Charnock -
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Don't stay away from church because there are so many hypocrites. There's always room for one more.
- Arthur Robert Adams (Sir) -
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Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.
- Matthew Henry -
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
- St. Jerome -
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With their doctrine they build, and with their lives they destroy.
- Augustine of Hippo -
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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 -
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For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
- John Milton -
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Pride, perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
- Thomas Fuller -
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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.
- Francis Bacon -
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Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
- Warren W. Wiersbe -
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Truth without obedience is hypocrisy; obedience without truth is legalism.
- Jack Wellman -
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True, Christians are often hypocrites. But their Jesus was not. He practiced precisely what he preached as an example to us all.
- Chris D. Cisions -
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The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
- Charles Spurgeon -
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Hypocrisy means deliberately pretending. None of us lives up to his ideals; none of us is all that he would like to be or all that he could be in Christ. But that is not hypocrisy. Falling short of our ideals is not hypocrisy. Pretending we have reached our ideals when we have not - that is hypocrisy.
- Warren W. Wiersbe -
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Those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.
- Blaise Pascal -
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God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
- D. L. Moody -
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The heart of man has so many recesses of vanity, and so many retreats of falsehood, and is so enveloped with fraudulent hypocrisy, that it frequently deceives even himself.
- John Calvin -
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Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their virtues
- J. C. Ryle -
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Many a Christian, many a church, has everything in the showcase and nothing on the shelves.
- Vance Havner -
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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.
- Ron Rolheiser (PhD) -
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Where the hypocrite's work ends, there the true Christian's work begins.
- Matthew Henry -
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Hypocrisy is Hideous. What cancer is to the body, hypocrisy is to the church. It is a killing agent.
- John R. W. Stott (PhD) -
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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
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Its amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
- Thomas Sowell -
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I believe there are too many practitioners in the church who are not believers.
- C. S. Lewis -
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Self-righteousness is the worst of sins because it is unbelief. It trusts in self rather than God.
- John MacArthur -
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The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle.
- Brennan Manning -
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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.
- Francis Bacon -
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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 -
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Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.
- Charles Spurgeon -
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No devil is so dangerous as the religious devil.
- Joseph Hall -
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It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
- Matthew Henry -
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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 (PhD) -
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The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation. He does not want to be holy; he only wants to seem to be holy. He is more concerned with his reputation for righteousness than about actually becoming righteous.
- Augustine of Hippo -
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The curse is on self-righteous people who believe they are already acceptable before God. Therefore they will never come to Him for grace.
- Randy Smith (PhD) -
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Righteousness never comes by faith in self, but by faith in God.
- Randy Alcorn -
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It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.
- Charles Spurgeon -
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Self-righteousness is a sense of moral superiority that appoints us as prosecutor of other peoples sinfulness. We relate to others as if we are incapable of the sins they commit. Self-righteousness wages war against mercy.
- Dave Harvey -
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Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.
- Charles Spurgeon -
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Next to hypocrisy in religion, there is nothing worse than hypocrisy in friendship.
- Joseph Hall -
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We are all sinners. But may the Lord not let us be hypocrites. Hypocrites dont know the meaning of forgiveness, joy and the love of God.
- Pope Francis -
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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?
- Charles Spurgeon -
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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
- Oscar Wild -
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The one who sees the most faults in his neighbor is the one who has never looked into his own soul.
- Fulton Sheen -
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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 -
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Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.
- C. S. Lewis
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