Hypocrisy

"The hypocrite may serve, among other things, as a deformed ambassador of the truth. By so obviously misrepresenting the truth, he enables us to trace its smothered outlines."

"A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein."

"Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are."

"Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets."

"Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart."

"Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, envenomed with malice, exalted in an opinion of thine own righteousness, leavened with hypocrisy and carnal ends in God's service."

"Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery."

"When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within."

"If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character."

"Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?"