Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that only the few will be saved and the many damned, have been shed, replaced by strummed guitars and saccharine smiles. It has reinvented itself so often, and with such breathtaking hypocrisy, in the interests of retaining its hold on the gullible, that a medieval monk who woke today, like Woody Allen’s Sleeper, would not be able to recognise the faith that bears the same name as his own.
A.C. Grayling
Hypocrisy
My old friend looked
My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.
A. J. Liebling
The more faithful preachers
The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.
R. C. Sproul
The house of delusions
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
A. E. Housman
Man knows so much
Man knows so much and does so little.
R. Buckminster Fuller
The world’s flattery and
The world’s flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end. Rumi
There is no room
There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere?
Rumi
Those who don’t feel
Those who don’t feel this Love pulling them like a river, those who don’t drink dawn like a cup of spring water or take in the sunset like supper, those who don’t want to change, let them sleep on. This Love is beyond the study of theology, that old trickery and hypocrisy. If you want … Read more
Go back, go back
Go back, go back to sleep. Yes, you are allowed. You who have no Love in your heart, you can go back to sleep. The power of Love is exclusive to us, you can go back to sleep. I have been burnt by the fire of Love. You who have no such yearning in your heart, go back to sleep. The path of Love, has seventy-two folds and countless facets. Your love and religion is all about deceit, control and hypocrisy, go back to sleep. I have torn to pieces my robe of speech, and have let go of the desire to converse. You who are not naked yet, you can go back to sleep.
Rumi