#hypocrisy

It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may still be left to their loneliness. The final break-through to fellowship does not occur, because, though they have fellowship with one another as believers and as devout people, they do not have fellowship as the undevout, as sinners. The pious fellowship permits no one to be a sinner. So everybody must conceal his sin from himself and from the fellowship. We dare not be sinners. Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy. The fact is that we are sinners! ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#fellowship #honesty #humility #hypocrisy #sin

Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#inspirational

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#life

Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#pessimism #nature

Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings. ↗

— Howard Dean

#all day #been #day #embraced #get

I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by some of the things I hear on programs like "Rush Limbaugh," and we don't have to put up with that. ↗

— Howard Dean

#frankly #hear #hypocrisy #i #like

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#conservative government #government #hypocrisy #organized

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#contemporary #contemporary history #contribution #ends #expose

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#hypocrisy #outside

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded. ↗

— David E. Price

#also #arrogance #basic #country #disagree