Quotes about Deception
Listening to things that are not true is the first step toward ultimate bondage and death. That
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
But the "best" lies are those that look the most like the Truth. The "newest" lies are the oldest ones.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Millions of professing Christians are deceived; they are walking in ways that simply are not biblical. Their values, their responses, their relation ships, their choices, and their priorities reveal that they have bought into the lie of the Enemy and embraced the world's way of thinking.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
False ideas are the greatest obstacle to the reception of the gospel."13 Not pop culture. Not consumerism. Not moral temptation. False ideas.
- Nancy Pearcey
According to Romans 1, those who reject the Creator will create an idol.
- Nancy Pearcey
Christians are called to tear down mental fortresses and liberate people from the power of false ideas.
- Nancy Pearcey
When we expose the lie, the enemy's power is broken. Often
- Neil Anderson
We must fight their falsehood with our truth, but we must also fight the falsehood in our truth.
- H Richard Niebuhr
Dizzy," I said, "it's Animals taking revenge on people." Dizzy always believes me, but this time he wasn't listening.
- Olga Tokarczuk
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. (The autocrat of the breakfast-table)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Jean Jacques Rousseau was at least right about this: better to face up to one's chains than to deck them with flowers and pretend they are not chains." ? Os Guinness, A Free People's Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future
- Os Guinness
What is the difference between God disguising himself and deceiving us? That is where the principle of suspended judgment operates. Face to face with mystery, and especially the mystery of evil, the faith that understands why it has come to trust must trust where it has not come to understand. Faith does not know why in terms of the immediate, but it knows why it trusts God who knows why in terms of the ultimate.
- Os Guinness