George Herbert Quotes

Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

We have our values from the church, the temple, the mosque. Do not rob, do not murder. But our behaviour changes the minute we go into the corporate place. Suddenly all of this is irrelevant.

No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

One would like to believe that people who think of themselves as devout Christians would also behave in a manner that is in according with Christian ethics. But pastorally and existentially, I know that this is not the case, and never has been.

How do the same evangelicals who incessantly force-feed us their morals and family values manage to overwhelmingly support someone like Donald Trump?

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce

The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.

Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.

What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!

I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.

It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.

Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take the stuff seriously. No amount of sanctimonious rationalization can make such behavior anything but pathological.

I don't know anyone less Jesus like than Christians.

Hypocrisy is bad, but it's not the worst vice in the world. If I declared “murder is wrong” and then killed somebody, I would hope that the top count against me would be homicide, not hypocrisy. Liberal elites ' particularly in Hollywood ' believe that hypocrisy is the gravest sin in the world, which is why they advocate their own lifestyles for the entire world: Sleep with whomever you want, listen to your own instincts, be true to yourself, blah, blah, blah. Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your practices? Surely not. It is recorded of him that a bruised reed he never broke. Cease, then, to call yourselves Christians, lest you declare to the world your hypocrisy. Cease, too, to call other nations savage, when you are tenfold more the children of cruelty than they.

Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.