Spiritual Hypocrisy Quotes

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

Behind the façade of robes and incense, clerical privilege was allowed to trump the Gospel

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

Neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone.

That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.

Some of the most intelligent people I've met in my life are priests and pastors; now, a lot of them aren't that, though. Some of the most sanctimonious and hypocritical people I've met are priests and pastors, also.

Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.

If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.

I have spiritual beliefs that I could literally go out and make an entire comedy routine about, and tour as some sort of spiritual guru, but it kind of goes against that [as] I actually believe the things, so I'm always kind of caught in the middle.

Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.

Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.

The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers as they universally do?

That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God.

We profess to think Jesus the grandest and most glorious of men, yet hardly care to be like him. When we are offered his Spirit, that is, his very nature within us, for the asking, we will hardly take the trouble to ask for it.

Men will allow God to be everywhere except on his Throne

Sometimes we emulate the Pharisees more than we imitate Christ.

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.

I only pray when it suits my own needs. I'm not proud about that.

The salat can be made up for, but there is no making up for false show or outward worship without presence.

People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.

If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?

I think there is an immense shortage of Christian charity among so-called Christians.