Quotes about Deception

Son, as long as you live, Satan will use what you see and what you hear against you.

God wants us to worry about our sins before we sin; the devil wants us to worry after we sin. God wants us to feel free after we repent (for we really are free then); the devil is a deceiver). The devil tempts us to cavalier pride before we sin and worrisome despair afterward, since pride and despair both separate us from God, and anything that separates us from God is the devil's friend and our enemy, while anything that brings us close to God is the devil's enemy and our friend.

bad fortune is really just as good for you as good fortune is, in fact, it is better, because, he says, bad fortune teaches, while good fortune deceives. When

Hypocrisy, it is said, is "the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.

The hallmark of the fraudulent is that it becomes what you would like it to be.

Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God... For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed.

Satan's activity mimics his nature: he deceives by hiding the hideous nature of sin under a facade of attractiveness.

The devil's purpose in the past was to keep Christ away from the world. Having failed that goal, the only option left to him is to keep the world away from Christ. He does so by sprinkling lies with truths and half-truths to create doubt in our minds about the faithfulness and glory of God.

God's is real power clothed in apparent powerlessness; Evil's is apparent power which is really powerlessness.

A Texas bank robber wrote his hold-up note on the back of his resume, on which he lied about his earlier robberies.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.