Skip to content

"All religions lead to hypocrisy. Nowhere is hypocrisy more prevailing than in religion. Religion is a field, a realm, for hypocrisy to prevail."

— Witness Lee

Another quote →

Notes from Wikiquote

- Life-Study of Luke, Chapter 29, Section 2, of Witness Lee - By Living Stream Ministry, ISBN 0-7363-1202-1

Topics

Religion

More quotes by Witness Lee

"Human religion is always like this: it begins by serving God and it ends by killing people."

"Religion is much used by the usurper to keep God’s chosen people under his oppression."

"Holiness is the manner of this life that enjoys the divine nature to the uttermost."

"Each human being is a totality of the human life."

"Being slow means not acting when there is time to act, whereas being stable means allowing time to do its work."

All Witness Lee quotes →

You may also like

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

Freeman Dyson Infinite in All Directions (1988)

The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Witness Lee (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.