The fierce words of Jesus addressed to the Pharisees of His day stretch across the bands of time. Today they are directed not only to fallen televangelists but to each of us. We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others. They are to be taken personally by each of us. This is the form and shape of Christian Pharisaism in our time. Hypocrisy is not hte prerogative of people in high places. The most impoverished among us is capable of it. Hypocrisy is the natural expression of what is meanest in us all.
Brennan ManningStichwörter: hypocrisy ragamuffin pharisee
If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider 'not spiritual work' I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interesting and exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Amy CarmichaelStichwörter: hypocrisy christian-living
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
Virginia WoolfStichwörter: intelligence empowerment gender men women thought feminism self-determination misogyny hypocrisy stereotypes double-standards clichés dignity social-norms
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.
Charlotte BrontëStichwörter: illusions empowerment gender women feminism misogyny hypocrisy stereotypes expectations double-standards clichés false-belief misconceptions
Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.
T.H. WhiteStichwörter: hypocrisy decency
Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.
François de La RochefoucauldStichwörter: virtue hypocrisy vice
By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It went without saying as it were.
...Our creed is indeed a queer creed. You others, Christians (and similar people), consider our ethics much inferior, indeed abominable. There is that little difference. We adhere to ours in practice, you don't.
Stichwörter: ethics atheism hypocrisy atheist creed queer pride abominable adherence unbelieving
Our creed [atheism] is indeed a queer creed. You others, Christians (and similar people), consider our ethics much inferior, indeed abominable. There is that little difference. We adhere to ours in practice, you don't.
Erwin SchrödingerStichwörter: ethics atheism hypocrisy creed queer abominable adherence inferior
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 AtwoodStichwörter: hypocrisy
Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.
Walter KirnStichwörter: hypocrisy twitter witch-hunts 2011 2011-tuscon-shooting blame-game
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