2. Hypocrisy

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby. 1 Peter 2:1-2

If the devil ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has; they serve him better than any other, but receive no wages. > Caleb C. Colton

Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo. > Ambrose Bierce

Don’t stay away from church because there are so many hypocrites. There is always room for one more. > A. R. Adams

Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone. > Josh Milton

Some people speak as if hypocrites were confined to religion; but they are everywhere; people pretending to wealth when they have not a sixpence, assuming knowledge of which they are ignorant, shamming a culture they are far removed from, adopting opinions they do not hold. > Albert Goodrich

The wolf in sheep’s clothing is a fitting emblem of the hypocrite. Every virtuous man would rather meet an open foe that a pretended friend who is a traitor at heart. > H. F. Kletzing

Grown-up people really ought to e more careful. Among themselves it may seem but a small thing to give their word and take it back. > Kenneth Grahame

No man can, for any considerable time, wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without family getting bewildered as to which is the true one. > Nathaniel Hawthorne

How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself! > C. S. Lewis

A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint. > Francis Bacon

A man who hides behind the hypocrite is smaller than the hypocrite. > W. E. Bjederwolf

See also Matthew 7:1-5; 23:1-33; 1 Timothy 4:1-5