Quotes about Deception
The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.
— Dorothy Sayers
Spiritual deception is dangerous -and damning.
— David Platt
It has been my observation that whatever a person hungers for, Satan will appear to offer in exchange for a spiritual compromise.
— James Dobson
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
— Alan Turing
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events
— Albert Einstein
It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.
— Albert Einstein
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.
— Aldous Huxley
I perceive that marble conceals a multitude of sins.
— Aldous Huxley
The Machiavelli of the 20th century will be an advertising man, his Prince , a textbook of the art and science of fooling all the people all the time.
— Aldous Huxley
A man can smile and smile and be a villain. Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain. What
— Aldous Huxley
According to James 1:22-25, we can experience God's truth so powerfully that what the Lord wants us to do becomes as plain to us as our face in the morning mirror. But if we do not apply the truth as we meet it, regardless of how wonderful the experience of discovering the truth has been, we deceive ourselves if we think we will be blessed for giving attention to the Bible on those occasions. The one who "will be blessed in his doing" is the one who does what Scripture says.
— Donald Whitney
To the degree we are ignorant of the way our adversary thinks and operates—of his plans, plots, schemes and devices—to that degree he will gain on us, prey on us, defraud us of what is ours and have or hold the greater portion.
— Dutch Sheets