Quotes about Deception

Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!

The devil hath his gunpowder plots, and mines, which may blow you up before you are aware. Not

The sweetest poison doth often bring the surest death (645).

I would desire every divine to beware that he tell not the unsanctified, that whoever hath the least degree of love to God for himself, and not as a means to carnal ends, shall certainly be saved ; for he would certainly deceive many thousand miserable souls that should persuade them of this (670).

The game is over once we see clearly because evil succeeds only by disguising itself as good, necessary, or helpful.

there is an early stage "holiness" that looks like the real thing, but it isn't.

They look like the oppressors, but have no doubt they are really the oppressed.

The unprayerful heart will always twist reality to its own liking.

I wondered if God might have an easier time using animals to communicate who God is, since they do not seem as willful and devious as we are.

The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!

The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America.

A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.