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Hypocrisy
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“Sinners desire Christ only for shelter. The Hebrews never chose their judges except when they were in some imminent danger. Godless persons never look for Christ except at death, when they are in danger of hell.”
“Oh Christians, if you would avoid self-deceit, see that you mind not only your actions but your motives.”
“It is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.”
“Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life.”
“The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification.”
“Almsgiving is not a service of God, but of vain-glory, if it spring not from divine love.”
“He grieves truly, that weeps without a witness; so it may be said of godliness, He is sincere in his godliness, who is godly in secret.”
“Men must not think to dance and dine with the devil, and then to sup with Abraham in heaven.”
“Men think God's laws too many and too strict, and yet make more of their own, and are precise for keeping them.”
“The door of the visible church is incomparably wider than the door of heaven.”
“The house of the formalist is as empty of religion as the white of an egg is of savor.”
“Saint abroad and a devil at home.”
“If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.”
“A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.”
“Many people think it is enough to bring their bodies to the assembly, but never look at their hearts. They satisfy themselves that they have been at church, though they have not been with God there.”
“When we profess God's name, but do not live answerably to it, we take it in vain.”
“To sweat in some duties of religion, and freeze in others, is the symptom of a disordered Christian.”
“The hypocrite suspects others of sin but has charitable thoughts of himself! The sincere Christian has charitable thoughts of others and suspects himself of sin.”
“That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.”
“Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.”
“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.”
“Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.”
“It is foolish to be lavish in words and niggardly in truth.”
“There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.”
“If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures, your profession is false.”
“Proxy religion involves too great a risk: you had better see to your soul's matters yourself.”
“A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics.”
“If people loved good works as much as they pretend to, they would love the faith which produces them.”
“Simulated ardor is a shameful form of lying.”
“Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.”