ACT23.8 For the Sadducees say that there is no…

Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples…

— Philip Yancey

A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.

— Simone Weil

According to Miller, Pharisee Judaism is not a religion at all, but a secret society posing as a religion, a "sect with Judaism as…

— Edith Starr Miller

Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion for the…

— John of Damascus

The pharisees minded what God spoke, but not what He intended. They were busy in the outward work of the hand, but incurious of…

— Jeremy Taylor

“To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful men who accepted Him and allied themselves…

— Fulton J. Sheen

The Talmud derives its authority from the position held by the ancient (Pharisee) academies. The teachers of those academies, both of Babylonia and of…

— Louis Finkelstein

“He speaks to the poor, the powerless, and he mocks the rich and powerful. He isn't the Messiah the Pharisees are looking for.”

— Stephanie Landsem

The Bible in itself is not the Word of God. The Word of God is a person. Neither does the Bible have life, power…

— Robert D. Brinsmead

To preach the Bible as 'the handbook for life,' or as the answer to every question, rather than as the revelation of Christ, is…

— Michael Horton

“Sometimes, you will go through awful trials in your life and then a miracle happens--God heals you. Don’t be disheartened when the people you…

— Shannon L. Alder

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.

— C. S. Lewis

We must stop using the Bible as though it were a potpourri of inerrant proof-texts by which we can bring people into bondage to…

— Robert D. Brinsmead

Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of…

— Anton Chekhov