Quotes about Deception

God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success the tempter stood, nor had what to reply, discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.

Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

Seeing is not always believing.

Notice the first reason people reject the gospel is that "the devil comes and takes away the word out of their hearts" (v. 12). That's deception—the deceiving spirits and demons I mentioned earlier. The second reason is more complicated. Jesus described those who hear the good news and "receive the word with joy" (v. 13). These people are genuinely excited about Christianity.

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities; now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way.

Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.

He felt himself flung back on all the ugly uncertainties from which he thought he had cast loose forever. After all, what did he know of her life? Only as much as she had chosen to show him, and measured by the world's estimate, how little that was!