Quotes about Deception

When "the concept of error in the sense of incorrectness is … used on the same level as the concept of erring in the sense of sin and deception … we are quite far removed from the serious manner with which erring is dealt in Scripture … (as) a swerving from the truth and upsetting the faith (2 Tim. 2:18)

have had to come to grips with the fact that people have lied and will lie about me; they will rip a few sentences out of context, twist a few passages, and make me sound like I believe something I don't because they need something to be angry about and oppose.

A mask partially conceals, but it also tells us that something is behind the mask.

The enemy is fierce and he would like for you to think that he has on. Don't believe his lie.

He said it was impossible that God would deceive. He also said that God would not allow a soul, which is perfectly surrendered to Him and committed to endure everything for His sake, to suffer long.

The devil is very sagacious. To judge by the event, he appears to have understood man better even than the Being who made him.

If your banker breaks, you snap; if your apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die.

You have but noted his fair cheek. A man-trap may be under his fine ruddy-tipped daisies.

To preach the Truth to the face of Falsehood!

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.