Quotes about Deception

We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.

None knows better than the devil, that "to divide is to conquer.

men try to cheat themselves into the belief that sin is not quite so sinful as God says it is, and that they are not so bad as they really are.

Fascism is socialism which has been clever enough to fool the vigilance of the church, as no other socialism has done.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

Trusting in Molech, as Ahaz did, or trusting in your own wisdom and intellect—there's no difference in God's eyes. It's all idolatry.

That was the destructive power of sin and lies—they harmed the innocent along with the guilty.

In the quiet, unexpressed, unwrestled-through disappointments, Satan is handcrafting his most damning weapons against us and those we love. It's his subtle seduction to get us alone with our thoughts so he can slip in whispers that will develop our disappointments into destructive choices.

I don't know what to say or how to say it." So I said nothing. Not a word. I stuffed it all down and started to build a barrier to hide behind. After the incident, I smiled when I saw her, but I held her at a distance. She knew something was wrong, but when she questioned me about it, I lied. "Everything's fine," I said. But everything wasn't fine. Not at all.

Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour" (1 Peter 5:8).

The Devil is powerful, but he's also predictable. We are told in 1 John 2:16 the exact three ways he's going to come after us. "For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father, but from the world.

And we don't allow their choices to harm us and start drawing our heart into places of compromise, devastation, or deception. Again, we all need grace when we mess up. But we also need the awareness that there is a difference between an occasional slip in behavior and an ongoing pattern of behavior.