Quotes About Religion And Hypocrisy

#1. Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed

Richard J. Foster

#2. Religion isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy.

Miguel El Portugues

#3. A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

Russell Baker

#4. Hypocrisy is your religion, and
Falsehood is your life, and
Nothingness is your ending; why,
Then, are you living? Is not
Death the sole comfort of the
Miserables?

Kahlil Gibran

#5. A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#6. Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

George Bernard Shaw

#8. Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. He had the arrogance of the believer, but none of the humility of the deeply religious.

V.S. Ramachandran

#10. He said to the cardinal, I'm a peasant, not instructed in the ways of heaven. But I have never broken my word. And you, a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, with all your holy garments and crosses of Jesus, lied to me like a heathen Moor. Your sacred office alone will not save your life.

Mario Puzo

#11. The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good.

Criss Jami

#12. He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

Jorge Luis Borges

#13. Religion imprisons God. By its own accord, if we are made in the image and likeness of God, then His condemnation of the sinner is an act of hypocrisy. I believe God to be greater than that.

Steve Maraboli

#14. I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion
against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.

Johnny Cash

#15. It is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false morality; it is mischievous by its hypocrisy; by its fanaticism; by its dogmatism; by its threats; by its hopes; by its promises.

Frances Wright

#16. Religious dogma creates a perfect fertilizer for the weeds of hypocrisy.

Steve Maraboli

#17. The difference between an atheist and a person of faith? One additional religion in the crazy column. You believe that all religions except yours are crazy. I believe that all religions including yours are crazy.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#18. They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith.

Frederick Douglass

#19. Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.

Radhanath Swami

#20. Religion thrives on woolly allegory, emotional commitments to texts that no one reads, and other forms of benign hypocrisy.

Steven Pinker

#21. [On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.

Ouida

#22. I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.

Frederick Douglass

#23. It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.

Benjamin Whichcote

#24. The problem with Christianity is more people profess the truth than live it. So much hypocrisy abounds that I can no longer say I count myself among them without being held to the same unachievable standard.

Shannon L. Alder

#25. Why put yourself in charge of Heaven's cause?
Does Heaven need our help to enforce its laws?

Moliere

#26. Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

Francois Rabelais

#27. If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

C.S. Lewis

#28. Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.

William Hazlitt

#29. Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.

Jeremy Taylor

#30. He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous.

Sherry Turkle

#31. Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.

Michael Leunig

#32. We are moved by self-interest, even when we seek to do good to others.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#33. I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Abraham Lincoln

#34. Whereas Jesus and his disciples were distrusted by the state largely because they respected the poor and shared everything, the fundamentalists of the present hour would appear not to know that the poor exist.

James Baldwin

#35. There is not a greater paradox in nature,
than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

Laurence Sterne

#36. Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.

Hosea Ballou

#37. Look into the world
how often do you behold a sordid wretch, whose straight heart is open to no man's affliction, taking shelterbehind an appearance of piety, and putting on the garb of religion, which none but the merciful and compassionate have a title to wear.

Laurence Sterne

#38. Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.

Thomas Paine

#39. If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be over-thrown with it, what advantage will be gained?

John Adams

#40. Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion
a form of knowledge without the power of it.

Joseph Addison

#41. Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.

Mary Baker Eddy

#42. Excessive religiosity is killing so many religious people knowingly or unknowingly

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#43. The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: It exists in spite of its ministers.

Heinrich Heine

#44. Priests always had much attention lavished on them by their starstruck fans,those devout housewives and wealthy congregants who treated them as if they were guardians of the velvet rope blocking entrance into that ever so exclusive nightclub, Heaven.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#45. Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.

Shannon L. Alder

#46. The devil does some of his best work behind stained glass.

Eugene H. Peterson