Margaret Askew Fell Fox Quotes

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.

People don't know. We don't know ourselves so we tell ourselves what we really know is other people. We could say the depth of pain we feel for the lovers who've left us is because we knew them so well.

The false man is more false to himself than to any one else. He may despoil others, but himself is the chief loser. The world's scorn he might sometimes forget, but the knowledge of his own perfidy is undying.

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

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves.

It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.

The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.

People who are most interested in telling the truth about others are generally the least interested in having the truth told about themselves.

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.

People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am.

It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense

Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.

Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us.

I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse.

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well.

We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. While he gropingly forms his own life in the frail image of a true existence, he should never forget its frailty, nor how little the image is a substitute for true life. Against such awareness, however, pulls the momentum of the bourgeois within him.

All my adult life I've been in the practice of giving advice to people who are happier than I am.

Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.