Quotes about Deception
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie-I found that out.
- Mark Twain
A vile race of quislings—to use the new word which will carry the scorn of mankind down the centuries.
- Winston Churchill
What a splendid head, yet no brain.
- Aesop
Unbelief about the existence and personality of Satan has often proved the first step to unbelief about God.
- JC Ryle
Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?
- Elie Wiesel
Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. When Adam and Eve deceived You, You chased them from paradise. When You were displeased by Noah's generation, You brought down the Flood. When Sodom lost Your favor, You caused the heavens to rain down fire and damnation. But look at these men whom You have betrayed, allowing them to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? They pray before You! They praise Your name!
- Elie Wiesel
Behind the shutters, our friends of yesterday were probably waiting for the moment when they could loot our homes.
- Elie Wiesel
Proverbs 7:11-12—These verses describe, of all things, an adulteress. She is doing the opposite of the wise homemaker who tends to her house and housework. She is "out there," walking the streets, instead of being at home. "Her feet would not stay at home. At times she was outside, at times in the open square, lurking at every corner.
- Elizabeth George
Current among men, Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.
- Alice Hoffman
The truth is that we are not good people who make mistakes; we are sinful people in need of mercy. Because it requires humility to accept what our hearts are truly like, those same hearts will tend to prefer to be deceived by preachers of self-esteem and self-confidence rather than listen to prophets such as Jeremiah.
- Alistair Begg
One said whatever would be of advantage; the question whether it was true no longer arose.
- Alvin Plantinga