Able Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one…

— Benjamin Franklin

A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid of internal…

— Sam Storms

Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church,…

— Joseph Hall

“One of the universally despised sins is hypocrisy, falsely pretending to hold beliefs, feelings, standards qualities, opinions, virtues, motivations, or other characteristics that a…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.

— Hosea Ballou

“Excessive wealth, enormous power, and luxury, Chrysostom charges, are destroying the integrity of the churches. Clerics, infected by the disease of “lust for authority,”…

— Elaine Pagels

“Hypocrisy has a devastating impact on the life of the church and on the representation of Christianity to a dying world. And”

— R.C. Sproul

A hypocrite is one who plays two parts consciously for his own ends. When we find fault with other people we may be quite…

— Oswald Chambers

“Extremes of wealth and poverty are a scandal to Christian brotherhood. They must not be allowed.”

— Richard J. Foster

HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises.

— Ambrose Bierce

A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation where the…

— Joan D. Chittister

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit.…

— W. Somerset Maugham