Thomas Brooks Quotes

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

'Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought wickeder than they are.

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

Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.

It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.

Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored; and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed.

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

It was then that I realized that while playing the well-meaning tolerant individual (in short: liberal) garnered you fans and grades, it didn't matter. In my heart and head, I was a fraud.

Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.

Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.

Some kneel and lie to God.

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

I've learned that it's harder to try to put on this goody two-shoes persona when that's not me.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

As soon as you start claiming you can be someone that you are not, you are crazy.

But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.

On Christmas day you can't get sore, your fellow man you must adore. There's time to cheat him all the more the other three hundred and sixty-four

Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself as well as from others than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture

We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.