People are never more sincere than when they assume their own moral superiority.
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
The people who talk the most about God are people who are the least like God.
A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.
Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.
The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.
Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.
How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!
Some religious guys in sports give the impression, 'I've got something you don't have.'
