Quotes about Deception

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

The devil is who torments good folks in the night. He whispers doubt in your ear. He stirs up anger. He picks at any little mistake you've made, or thinks you've made, and blows it up big. That's Satan, stirring and stirring trouble, like a pot he's trying to boil over, hoping he can spill sin through your soul and slop it all over the people around you.

A beautiful face cannot hide an ugly heart for long.

Fear is the greatest false prophet you will ever meet.

Men who demand the most loyalty tend to be the least loyal pricks,

the most dangerous lie is the lie that resembles the truth". Michael Youssef

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else, for each one should carry his own load [responsibility] (Galatians 6:3-5).

One of satan's most successful devices is to preoccupy us with "good" things to distract us from the "right" things.

Jesus didn't really die-someone gave him a long drug that made him look like dead, and he revived in the tomb. Answer: Roman soldiers knew how to kill people, and no disciple would have been fooled by a half-drugged, beat-up Jesus into thinking he'd defeated death and inaugurated the kingdom.

When the women went to the tomb they met someone else and in the half light they thought it was Jesus himself. Answer: they would have noticed soon enough.

The voice of Satan is often hard to recognise precisely because it appears so frequently as the voice of common sense, of prudence, of reason.