Quotes about Deception

Yet many are living that very life, deluded by weak preaching and deceived by biblical illiteracy into thinking grace coddles the unrepentant.

is the world or the church is actually irrelevant. The point is simply that the devil is going to bring forward people (whether in the church or out of it) so much like true Christians, yet not Christians, that even the servants of God will not be able to tell them apart.

I always think that the franker you are with people, the more you're likely to deceive 'em; so unused is the modern world to the open hand and the guileless heart

For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

Appearances are often deceiving.

Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

Often, the most dangerous deception was the one that looked the most like the truth.

When the gospel is preached, there will be true and false conversions.

Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies.