Quotes about Self-deception

For sure, I would much rather look as if I have it all together and never make mistakes. But as the Bible cautions us, "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us."12

From the very start, Sally has been lying to herself, telling herself she can handle anything, and she doesn't want to lie anymore. One more lie and she'll be truly lost. One more and she'll never find her way back through the woods.

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool.

The human heart has so many recesses for vanity, so many lurking places for falsehood, is so shrouded by fraud and hypocrisy, that it often deceives itself.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.

The idea of sin being able to deceive us, suppressing truth so that we believe a lie, should send shivers down our spines. It is one thing to deceive other people. That is scary enough. It is even more frightening when we realize that each lie we tell leaves us more self-deceived. All practiced sin teaches us to believe lies. WE don't often consider the boomerang effect of our deception. In the end it will get us.

What does your worship look like? Anxiety, despair, shopping, primping, acting like someone you aren't, acting stupid when you are smart, or acting like you don't care when you do? Why do you do it? You are hoping that, if you worship it correctly, the idol will give you what you want. But idols are notoriously slow in responding.

The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).

We all have two stories---the journal of our life evnets, and the fiction we tell ourselves about them. Charles James's Diary

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.