Quotes about Deception
there is an early stage "holiness" that looks like the real thing, but it isn't.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
They look like the oppressors, but have no doubt they are really the oppressed.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The unprayerful heart will always twist reality to its own liking.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
I wondered if God might have an easier time using animals to communicate who God is, since they do not seem as willful and devious as we are.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!
— Dorothy Day
The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America.
— Leonard Ravenhill
A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.
— Thomas Watson
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie-I found that out.
— Mark Twain
A vile race of quislings—to use the new word which will carry the scorn of mankind down the centuries.
— Winston Churchill
What a splendid head, yet no brain.
— Aesop
Unbelief about the existence and personality of Satan has often proved the first step to unbelief about God.
— JC Ryle
Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?
— Elie Wiesel