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Quotes about Deceit

What a splendid head, yet no brain.
- Aesop
The devil will tell a thousand truths to sell one lie.'
- Richard Paul Evans
Get rid of your old self, which made you live as you used to — the old self that was being destroyed by its deceitful desires. Your hearts and minds must be made completely new, and you must put on the new self, which is created in God's likeness" (Ephesians 4:22 — 24
- Rick Warren
Attractive labels are usually attached to the most dangerous programs, often in the name of public welfare and personal security.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
- Pierre Corneille
The devil specializes in rearranging price tags, making the cheap look valuable and the miserable appear happy. (For example, if, before the purchase, people saw photos of themselves after five years of using methamphetamines, would they still buy them?)
- Randy Alcorn
Thus, so far we have seen that: We are engaged in a war. Our enemy is Satan. The mind is the battlefield. The devil works diligently to set up strongholds in our mind. He does it through strategy and deceit (through well-laid plans and deliberate deception). He is in no hurry; he takes his time to work out his plan.
- Joyce Meyer
Satan mounts his mutiny against God through a deceitful stronghold: God is untrustworthy. In subtle and not-so-subtle ways, he places God's heart on trial by whispering insidious lies: "God is holding back on you. He wants you to jump through hoops in order to earn His love. He's stingy. He doesn't have your best interest in mind. You're better off trusting in yourself. Your resources and functional saviors work better then waiting and trusting in Him.
- James MacDonald
John 8:44 says Satan is a liar and the father of lies. He captures and conquers men's lives through his convincing lies, often nullifying good intentions with wrongful actions that seemed manly in the moment but in the end lacked the balancing power of clarity.
- James MacDonald
Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.
- Charles Spurgeon
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
- William Hazlitt