HYPOCRISY

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“Not everyone saying to me, ‘Lord, Lord, will enter into the Kingdom of the heavens, but only the one doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens will.’  Many will say to me in that day: ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophecy in your name, and expel demons in your name, and perform many powerful works in your name?’ And then I will declare to them: ‘I never knew you!  Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness!” – Jesus Christ – Matt.7:21-23 – Apostle Matthew – The HOLY SCRIPTURES

Definition - HYPOCRITE - 1: “A person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion. 2: “A person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs of feelings.” - MERRIAM / WEBSTER DICTIONARY

Moral indignation is jealousy without a halo. – H. G. Wells

Hypocrite:  The man murdered both of his parents…pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. – Abraham Lincoln

Don’t judge others simply because they are different from you. – Unknown

A hypocrite is the kind of politician that would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump, and make a speech for conservation. – Adlai Stevenson

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over. – H. Jackson Browne Jr.

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. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it’s a whole-time job. – W. Somerset Maugham

“Sex—even premarital sex, if accompanied by responsibility and a feeling of affection by both partners and when used and controlled properly—was a delightful way completing a loving relationship between persons and it is not mandatory that persons be of the opposite gender.” – Dr. Pittenger, (Episcopal minister and a member of the faculty of Cambridge University in England) – MEMPHIS PRESS-SCIMITAR - April 1, 1971    

When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man.  When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch – Bette Davis                                                

Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car. – Billy Sunday

“The underlying responsibility of the Holocaust lies not with Europe as Thomas Kennealy asserts, it lies with the churches—yes, organized religion—because they failed teach and to act on the truth.  They turned their backs on what was really happening.  They could have helped prevent it in the first place.” – Gary Pulliam - RACISM ON TRIAL: AN INDICTMENT OF PREJUDICE - PERSPECTIVE - 1994       

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  Because you resemble whitewashed graves, which outwardly indeed appear beautiful but inside are full of dead men’s bones and of every sort of uncleanness.  In the same way, on the outside you appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.” – Jesus Christ – Matt. 23:27,28 – Apostle Matthew – The HOLY SCRIPTURES                              I won’t insult your intelligence by the suggestion that you really believe what you just said. – William F. Buckley Jr.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar who is also a hypocrite! – Tennessee Williams

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you’re saying when you’re being a hypocrite. – Dr. Ben Carson

It’s discouraging to see how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. – Noel Coward – BLITHE SPIRIT

When atheists claim to be “offended” by the mere existence of silent prayer being allowed in the classroom, then all prayer is summarily censored in all schools, whether any atheists are present or not.  These offended parties are never told to be more tolerant or to develop respect for the opinions of others.  Any person of faith is routinely portrayed as old-fashioned or anti-intellectual.  How sad our culture is no longer respectful of all beliefs. – Gary Pulliam

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical.  He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. – Jean Kerr

It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society.  When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. – Thomas Paine

Clean your finger before you point at my spots. – Benjamin Franklin

“The Holocaust is the most extreme version of the rootless race hate in European history.  Classic European anti-Semitism was based more on the idea that Jews had killed Christ and we engaged in anti-European philosophy and financial conspiracy than on any measurable harm to Europe.  No one could point to any Jewish massacres of Christians.” – Thomas Keneally – Author - SCHLINDLER’S LIST

With two people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty.  But with those who possess great talent, it is hypocrisy. – Arthur Schopenhauer

He does not believe who does not live according to his beliefs. – Thomas Fuller

With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. – Charles Dickens

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“Let your love be without hypocrisy.  Abhor what is wicked, cling to what is good.” – Apostle Paul – Rom. 12:9 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES

Europe has pursued ant-Semitism consistently since the Middle Ages, and has yet to repent of it. – Thomas Keneally – Excerpts – SCHLINDLER’S LIST– 1993   

“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocritical.” - Oscar Wilde - THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST                               

The one who loves least controls the relationship. – Unknown