There is no love where there is Pretense.
Pretense keeps you in denial.
So much of his benevolence was a Pretense;
Pretense is projected by those insecure in themselves.
Yesterday's enlightenment is today's Pretense.
Matt had no Pretense, though.
Why keep up the Pretense?
Speak if this be Pretense!
I'm just astounded by you and your Pretense.
On the road, you also find very little Pretense.
Who knows whether there's Pretense in what you are saying now?
They know that Pretense is not serious, but yet they do it.
It is man's Pretense that because he has choice he is free.
Because I saw that amidst all your Pretense, your heart never lied.
Although most people today plead, they are not sincere-
it is just a Pretense.
They know that that Pretense is not serious, but yet they do it.
Not all prose should be classic,
and not all writers can carry off the Pretense.
Any Pretense of independence from Jehovah God is sheer folly.
- 11/ 15, pages 24- 7.
There is an authenticity in Percival's writing because it is devoid of assumptions,
theory or Pretense.
But things turned horribly wrong when
man-made traditions overshadowed God's Word and a Pretense of holiness replaced a life of true godliness.
It is never too late, we witness,
for a woman to cast off decades of subservience, the Pretense of wellbeing, and suffering.
For their part, players seek to disguise their infractions- a little tug here,
a bump there, a Pretense of having been pushed or pulled.
However, if there is a Pretense of occult magic,
would a Christian ever want to give the impression of possessing some supernatural, unexplainable power?
I have heard of companies that recruit people under the Pretense that they must pay part of their salary back to the head hunter.
All Pretense at friendship between Fillmore and Weed vanished in November 1849 when the two happened to meet
in New York City, and they exchanged accusations.
What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in Pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed.
I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.
It's like bit actresses in serials and
movies who have got to carry on this Pretense of being stars, and actually can't afford to be stars.
Many of these have tried to use the“ New Testament” as a justification for their hatreds and prejudices,
but reasoning people can see through that hollow Pretense.
The time has come when religions should more actively exert themselves,
with courage and audacity, and without Pretense, to help the human family deepen the capacity for reconciliation.