 Scripture plainly tells us of this mingling of tares and wheat--of mere professors among true believers. Yet misguided students have frequently applied to the children of God the warnings and exhortations meant only for the self-deceived or hypocritical. Author: C.I. Scofield |
| The Church, saved by faith in the Messiah who came from the Jews; having in her hand the Bible which was written by the Jews; receiving her teaching solely and only through Jewish sources, became, for one thousand years, the bitter, relentless, bloody persecutor of Judaism. With that came worldliness and priestly assumption, and the Dark Ages. Author: C.I. Scofield |
| An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning. Author: C.S. Lewis |
| Because there is one hypocrite, men set down all the rest the same. I heard one man say that he did not believe there was a true Christian living, because he had found so many hypocrites. I reminded him that there could be no hypocrites if there were no genuine Christians. No one would try to forge bank notes if there were no genuine ones. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: 1.171. |
| It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: 52.483. |
| It is of no use for any of you to try to be soul-winners if you are not bearing fruit in your own lives. How can you serve the Lord with your lips if you do not serve Him with your lives? How can you preach His gospel with your tongues, when with hands, feet, and heart you are preaching the devil's gospel, and setting up an antichrist by your practical unholiness? Author: Charles Spurgeon |
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| We have all felt the brazenness of words without emotion, the hollowness, the unaccountable unpersuasiveness of eloquence behind which lies no love. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: The Greatest Thing in the World. |
| The sneer at the godly man for his imperfections is ill-judged. A blade is a small thing. At first it grows very near the earth. It is often soiled and crushed and downtrodden. But it is a living thing,... and "it doth not yet appear what it shall be." Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Natural Law, Growth, p. 129. |
| How many prodigals are kept out of the Kingdom of God by the unlovely character of those who profess to be inside! Author: Henry Drummond
Source: The Greatest Thing in the World. |
| There are people who go about the world looking out for slights, and they are necessarily miserable, for they find them at every turn--especially the imaginary ones. One has the same pity for such men as for the very poor. They are the morally illiterate. They have had no real education, for they have never learned how to live. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Pax Vobiscum, p. 31. |
| Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict. Author: John Calvin |
| The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood lurks, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself. Author: John Calvin
Source: A Calvin Treasury. Christianity Today, v. 37, n. 4. |
