Quotes about Deception
many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.
- Martin Luther
an enemy is not more baneful than a flatterer.
- Martin Luther
No one should be deceived by the glamor of the ceremonies and entangled in the multitude of pompous forms, and thus lose the simplicity of the mass itself
- Martin Luther
In lying fashion you ignore what even children know.
- Martin Luther
He who does not fear the truth should fear a lie and should worship an image or a phantom as God.
- Martin Luther
A sham friend is more hateful than an open enemy.
- Martin Luther
We do not then reject good works; nay, we embrace them and teach them in the highest degree. It is not on their own account that we condemn them, but on account of this impious addition to them and the perverse notion of seeking justification by them. These things cause them to be only good in outward show, but in reality not good, since by them men are deceived and deceive others, like ravening wolves in sheep's clothing.
- Martin Luther
Nothing is prettier, better, or holier in the sight of men than idolatry and godlessness adorned with hypocrisy and a show of piety. An evil deed in the sight of God, however, is one that is undertaken without faith and the Word, by our own efforts, however good and beautiful it may appear.
- Martin Luther
115. Learn, then, what a hypocrite is; namely, one who lays claim to the worship of God and to charity, and yet, at the same time, destroys the worship of God and slaughters his brother.
- Martin Luther
Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period it can be a very shady business.
- Marvin Hagler
If anyone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar.
- John 4:20
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity
- Soren Kierkegaard