It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.
Saint AugustineWhere your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness
Saint AugustineThe Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
Saint AugustineIt is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain; but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved, and are daily proving by actual experiment), in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, or might follow out in act what they had already learned in word.
Saint Augustine