Minna Antrim Quotes

I've always felt like there are certain politicians that wear their religion on their sleeve in a way that you almost feel is disingenuous. I think that your faith has to be first personal. I struggle with those people that preach something and go back behind closed doors and live differently.

Each single thing can be referred more easily to the hand and rod of God. This is nothing more or less than wishing to please God by a lie.

He was among men who cloaked their lives with religion in order to follow their real purposes unseen of men.

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

So, is Hollywood anti-religion? Not in my opinion. But unlike, say, politicians and preachers who talk faith before going off to speak in tongues to their mistresses, Hollywood just doesn't wear its faith on its sleeve.

The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?

Much prayer, but no piety.

There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.

Everywhere we are surrounded by dogs and sorcerers and whores and the Godless and all who love lies and commit them.

Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.

People are frightened of death, and the central lie of all religion is that there’s a cure for this and an exception we’ve made in your own case: an eternal life offered if you make the right propitiations and the right abjections. Well, I’m sorry. I think that it's the height of immorality to lie to people like that. That’s why [religion] survives.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.

A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.

The existence of hypocrites does not prove the non-existence of true believers.

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!