#hypocrisy

God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. ... One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it’s not necessary for them to be good, it’s essential for them to appear good. ↗

— Erwin W. Lutzer

#hypocrisy #submission #forgiveness

Between ourselves, there are two things that I have always observed to be in singular accord: supercelestial thoughts and subterranean conduct. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#of-experience #experience

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#life

I really wished he hadn't made me hate to read the Bible. Having it shoved down my throat all my life had made me bitter toward reading it. I believed it, but my dad had used it to his benefit too many times and ignored the parts in there that would point out his wrongs. Like judging Beau without even knowing him. That was in the Bible too. ↗

— Abbi Glines

#judging #judging-people #religion #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

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#judgement #pharisee #hypocrisy

We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others. ↗

— José Emilio Pacheco

#judgement #battle

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#expression #eyes #hypocrisy #hypocrisy

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it. ↗