Quotes about Deception

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.

The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.

Know, by sad experience, what it is to be lulled to sleep with a false peace. Long was I lulled asleep; long did I think myself a Christian, when I knew nothing of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Satan's greatest power was not that he could inflict evil. His greatest power was to make the sons of God forget who they were.

Every person has two selves, a lower self that is born of flesh and tied to the illusions of the material world, and a higher self that is eternal and unborn, with no attachments at all. The lower self craves pleasure, the higher self knows only bliss. The lower self cringes from pain, the higher self has never felt pain. If that was true, then Gautama had to find his higher self or be lost in the endless quicksand of the mind's deceptions.

He hadn't lied with words, but sometimes the lie was the thing left unsaid.

The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.

You cannot lead an enemy to Heaven, but you can lead a friend even to Hell.