Quotes about Deception
Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.
- St. Augustine
If you give them a God made in their own image, I guarantee they'll accept Him. But He won't be the God who saves.
- Paul Washer
The devil is God's ape!
- Martin Luther
Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.
- John Calvin
Satan's primary temptation strategy is to try and make us forget what God has said about us and to evaluate our standing before God by some other criteria.
- JD Greear
It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
- Thomas Paine
The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.
- Thomas Adams
Anything God does, the enemy tries to counterfeit. We have to be on guard against the enemy!
- Beth Moore
We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
- Catherine of Siena
The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
Christ is God or He is the world's greatest liar and imposter.
- Dorothy Day