Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice pays to virtue.
If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.
Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?
Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.
Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, envenomed with malice, exalted in an opinion of thine own righteousness, leavened with hypocrisy and carnal ends in God's service.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
IGNORANCE.
He that voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
