A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.
Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.
Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
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!
Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride.
Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won't accept your thanks for murder.
When you do something moral and upright and wander off by yourself, well, everyone doesn't always follow you, do they, right? You pat yourself on your sanctimonious back but it doesn't mean the crowd rewards you for doing what you think is right.
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.
Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.
