HYPOCRISY

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         1. Some people's religion is just like a wooden leg. There is neither warmth nor life in it & although it helps you to hobble along, it never becomes part of you, but must be strapped on every morning.

         2. To profess to love God while leading an unholy life is the worst of falsehoods.

         3. A man may have the tongue of an angel & the heart of a devil.

         4. A dropped handkerchief: a surprising end to the career of California's most colorful stage-coach robber. "Black Bart" had terrorized stages for six years, committing twenty-eight robberies between 1877 and 1883 in the rugged foothills of the Sierras. Dressed in a long linen duster with a flour sack over his head, he would brandish a shotgun while demanding, "Will you please throw down your treasure box, sir?"
         Finally, near Copperopolis, Bart was wounded while escaping a holdup and dropped a handkerchief with the laundry mark "FX07." This was traced to San Francisco, where police made one of the most surprising arrests in the city's history. "Black Bart," the highwayman, turned out to be Charles E. Bolton, one of San Francisco's leading citizens with close connections in the police department.
         Bolton had a reputation as a non-smoking, non-drinking, God-fearing man with big business interest in the gold mines. Amid much publicity he confessed his crime and was sentenced to six years in San Quentin for his deception.

         5. There is nothing worse than being something on the outside that you are not on the inside.--M. Gandhi

         6. It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere except at home.

         7. When your religion gets into past tense, it becomes pretense.

         8. A father, upon learning that his son had stolen several pencils from a department store, scolded him severely & said: "You ought to know better than to steal. I can pick up all the pencils you need at the office."

         9. No one is more confusing than the fellow who gives good advice while setting a bad example.

         10. We are more comfortable with Christ in print than in practice.

         11. Religion is a cloak used by some people in this World who will be warm enough without one in the next.

         12. The most terrible lie is not that which is uttered, but that which is lived.

         13. A sickly saint is likely to be a healthy hypocrite.

         14. A hypocrite is someone who writes a book in praise of atheism, & then prays it'll sell.

         15. We must not think to dance with the Devil all day & sup with Christ at night.

         16. Even the hypocrite admires righteousness. That is why he imitates it.

         17. God hates the sanctimonious hallelujah more than He hates the godless curse.

         18. What you are in public will never blind God to what you are in private.

         19. A man who does not practice what he preaches destroys what he builds.--Bonaventura

         20. Whatever we are in our religion, let us resolve never to wear a cloak. Let us by all means be honest & real.

         21. No enemy is more dangerous than a friend who isn't quite sure whether he's for you or against you.