William Laud Quotes

Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

I've always felt like there are certain politicians that wear their religion on their sleeve in a way that you almost feel is disingenuous. I think that your faith has to be first personal. I struggle with those people that preach something and go back behind closed doors and live differently.

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.

It is of great consequences to disguise your inclination, and to play the hypocrite well.

He was among men who cloaked their lives with religion in order to follow their real purposes unseen of men.

Public displays of puritanical religiosity mask the private perversions of the real Washington behind closed doors.

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

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.

Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.

Beware of the guy praying loudest in the amen corner.

It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you over time.

He that puts on a religious habit abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be uncovered by God and presented before all the world for a most outrageous hypocrite.

You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts.

Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!

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

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

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the Gods; but would have Mortals hear; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their Religion has been one.

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

You know a man can play the part of a saint just so long for a day comes when his true, his true self unfolds.

Most people love you for who you pretend to be.