Sermon quotes on hypocrisy
Alfred Adler
It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
Bernard of Clairvaux
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
Edmund Burke
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Noël Coward
It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Blithe Spirit
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins
Nathaniel Hawthorne
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Matthew Henry
Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.
Thomas a Kempis
Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Source Unknown
The Pharisees are not all dead yet, and are not all Jews.
Warren W. Wiersbe
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
Oscar Wilde
“There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.”
Lady Windermere’s Fan
Warren Wiersbe
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
John Bunyan
Saint abroad, and a devil at home.
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Robert Louis Stevenson
“At the very moment of that vain-glorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most dreadful shuddering…I looked down…I was once more Edward Hyde.”
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dallas Willard
My Christian fellowship circle will allow me not to follow him and even not to plan to follow him, but they will not permit me to say it.
The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives. Reprint edition. San Francisco: HarperOne, 13 1999.
Broken Bells
The open doors left me wanting more . . .
It’s another way to win a useless fight
You’ve been lying so long don’t know you’re faking.
“Perfect World,” After the Disco, Columbia Records, 2014.
Miroslav Volf
There is something profoundly hypocritical about praising God for God’s mighty deeds of salvation and cooperating at the same time with the demons of destruction, whether by neglecting to do good or by actively doing evil. Only those who help the Jews may sing the Gregorian chant, Dietrich Bonhoeffer rightly said, in the context of Nazi Germany… Without action in the world, the adoration of God is empty and hypocritical, and degenerates into irresponsible and godless quietism.
“Reflections on a Christian Way of Being-in-the-World,” quoted in Worship: Adoration and Action, Edited by D.A. Carson, Wipf & Stock Pub.
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