Walter Scott Quotes

Faith without works is dead.

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it....It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.

The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

He has not a single grain of conviction in him except in the abstract.

Oh Lord. Deliver us from the hypocrisy of talking to sound reasonable while not being reasonable.

I've long been offended by not-so-godly pro football players I've known who showed up for pregame chapel - Sunday-only Christians rubbing the proverbial rabbit's foot - then after victories declared it was 'God's will' that their team won.

Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.

It is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of practice

Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

If your heart was as big as your mouth you'd be real.

Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

Faith is the only thing that will ever close the gap between our theology and our reality.

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

Do more than believe: practice.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts.

I think our danger is that we talk one thing, and we feel and act another thing.