Quotes about Deceit

Herein lies the serpent's deceit. Man knows good and evil, but because he is not the origin, because he acquires this knowledge only at the price of estrangement from the origin, the good and evil that he knows are not the good and evil of God but good and evil against God. They are good and evil of man's own choosing, in opposition to the eternal election of God. In becoming like God man has become a god against God.

Spiritual deception is dangerous -and damning.

In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act

Satan's strategy is effective because he sprinkles his poisonous brew with just enough veracity that we'll swallow it.

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman who fears the Lord, She shall be praised. (Proverbs 31:30 Modern King James Version)

Ye are of your father the devil… there is no truth in him…. he is a liar, and the father of it.

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent.

That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities; now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way.

For five hundred years, Christian teachers defined and redefined salvation almost entirely in individualistic terms, while well-disguised social evils—greed, pride, ambition, deceit, gluttony—moved to the highest levels of power and influence, even in our churches.

Deceit is a tool of statecraft, " Irulan agreed."There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover, " Paul said.