HYPOCRISY See also: Formalism

假冒為善

Hypocrisy is nothing better than skin-deep holiness.

假冒為善與膚淺的聖潔不相上下。

A hypocrite is a man who lets his light so shine before men that they can't tell what is going on behind!

假冒為善就是一個人讓他的光照在人前,好讓人看不見他後面在搞甚麼鬼。

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

Augustine

公開表明愛上帝卻同時過著不聖潔的生活是最糟糕的謊言。

God will not be put off with the shell while we give the devil the kernel.

Thomas Brooks

當我們把核桃果仁給魔鬼,上帝可不要核桃外殼。

Self-ends are the operative ingredients in all a hypocrite does.

Thomas Brooks

假冒為善的所作所為,都是為了滿足自己的私慾。

The hypocrite is only constant in inconstancy.

Thomas Brooks

假冒為善唯一不變的就是善變。

A running sore may lie under a purple robe.

Stephen Charnock

紫色袍下可能是流濃的傷口。

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

John Flavel

一個人可能有天使的舌頭和魔鬼的心。

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

Mohandas Gandhi

在沒有比表裡不一還糟糕的了。

There are three things I don't like - they are liver, kidneys and hypocrisy.

A. Lindsay Gless

有三個東西我不喜歡,那就是肝臟、腎臟以及假冒為善的人。

Hypocrisy not only covers faults, but swiftly eats out of the soul every remnant of truth and honour left in it.

Richard Glover

偽善不僅掩蓋過錯,還會迅速蠶食靈魂中所剩無幾的真誠與榮譽。

Piety outside and corruption inside is a revolting mixture.

Michael Green

外表虔誠內在腐敗是最令人厭惡的混合物。

Hypocrisy is a sin that offers violence to the very light of nature.

William Gurnall

假冒為善是破壞本性光明的罪。

A rotten apple discovers itself in a windy day.

William Jenkyn

腐敗的蘋果在颳風的日子才會看得見。

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

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

除了在家裡,假冒為善的人到處都可以混充是基督徒。

Whitewashing the pump won't make the water pure.

D. L. Moody

粉刷馬達不會使水變得潔淨。

A painted harlot is less dangerous than a painted hypocrite.

William Secker

粉刷的娼妓不比粉刷的偽善者危險。

Nothing is more to be despised than a mere painted fire, the simulation of earnestness.  Sooner let us have an honest death than a counterfeit life.

C. H. Spurgeon

再沒有比畫上去火、偽裝的熱誠還令人藐視的。讓我們有個誠實的死勝過虛假的活。

Religion which is begun in hypocrisy will certainly end in a apostasy.

William Spurstowe

始於假冒為善的宗教必終於叛教。

Hypocrisy is the loudest lie.

George Swinnock

假冒為善是高聲的謊言。

I cannot believe that a man is on the road to heaven when he is habitually performing the kind of deeds that would logically indicate that he ought to be on his way to hell.

A. W. Tozer

我就是無法相信一個人走在朝向天上的道路,但卻習慣性的活著一種顯明他是走在向著地獄之路的生活。

The hypocrite hath a squint eye, for he looks more to his own glory than God's.

Thomas Watson

假冒為善的人有個斜視的眼睛,因為他常看自己的榮耀遠勝於上帝的榮耀。