Top 33 Quotes About Religious Hypocrisy
#1. Every author these days is an award-winning novelist. Why? Because they set up an award contest and they dub themselves the winner.
Karen E. Quinones Miller
#2. Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.
Criss Jami
#3. The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.
Gloria Swanson
#4. He seemed evidently more fond of controversy than of truth, and the whole turn of his conversation indicated that he derived his religious security rather from the adoption of a party, than from the implantation of a new principle.
Hannah More
#5. In the rolling sea of new state, new school, new dangers everywere, Daniel was the only rock she had to hold on to.And he was adout to leave her? ...
Lauren Kate
#6. If I have several bad guys and I only want to end up with one of them, then I have to decide which one I want in the end. And normally it's the one who is the most interesting talker.
Elmore Leonard
#7. The days with the baby felt long but there was nothing expansive about them. Caring for her required me to repeat a series of tasks that had the peculiar quality of seeming both urgent and tedious. They cut the day up into little scraps.
Jenny Offill
#8. Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament
Margaret Deland
#9. When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.
Leland Ryken
#10. I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me after my death. I do not believe in such ceremonies, and to submit to them, even as a matter of form, would be hypocrisy and an attempt to delude ourselves and others.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#11. Please make it yesterday, when Papa came home.
Mitch Albom
#12. I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!
Dalai Lama
#13. There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and religious minorities in their midst, for that is exactly what European colonial rule meant for peoples around the world.
Martin Jacques
#14. Yes, Bush spouted a bunch of religious crap, but at least he didn't believe in it.
Give the man a beer. Sometimes hypocrisy is better than faith.
Earl Lee
#15. In other words, I'm against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration.
Viggo Mortensen
#16. Religious hypocrisy is one of the great barriers to faith for any thoughtful person. Why become a Christian when the church is filled with so many hypocrites and deeply flawed people? Mark
John Ortberg
#17. Excessive religiosity is killing so many religious people knowingly or unknowingly
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#19. Matheus looked down at his feet and sighed. "I lost my shoes." "Tragedy affects us all, Sunshine," Quin said.
Amy Fecteau
#20. He had the arrogance of the believer, but none of the humility of the deeply religious.
V.S. Ramachandran
#21. Be more concerned about your life's impact on the lives of others than your image.
Felicia Brookins
#22. Oftentimes what we do to minimize a problem maximizes it! Embrace truth helps us to let go!
Evinda Lepins
#23. I wasn't being followed around by paparazzi all the time. I was able to be a kid and spend that time with my family and not grow up too quickly.
Danielle Fishel
#24. Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.
William Blum
#25. Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.
Virginia Woolf
#26. 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
#27. As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#28. Religious dogma creates a perfect fertilizer for the weeds of hypocrisy.
Steve Maraboli
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
Al Franken
#32. He's in love with the notion of shame and he traffics the shit like a schoolground pusher, spreading it around but never personally using.
Miriam Toews
#33. When you're learning, you're burning - putting out a lot of heat. When you're all burned up, then you become light.
Adi Da
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