Quotes about Deception
There is no one we swindle more than we swindle ourselves. There is no one we run to defend more than we do ourselves. And like every other spiritually blind person, Joe was blind to his blindness.
— Paul David Tripp
An idolatrous heart will produce idol words, words that serve the idol that grips us.
— Paul David Tripp
What is that lie? It is the lie that was first told in the garden of Eden—the false promise that life, heart-satisfying life, could be found somewhere outside the Creator. It is the lie of lies, the cruelest lie ever told. If you believe it, it will not only leave you empty and discouraged, but it will set your life on a course of destruction.
— Paul David Tripp
No parent is able to escape the deceiving power of sin. All parents need to understand the power of spiritual blindness as they think of the task that God has called them to.
— Paul David Tripp
The scary deception of sin is that, at the point of sinning, sin doesn't look all that sinful.
— Paul David Tripp
Rebellion is the inborn tendency to give in to the lies of autonomy, self-sufficiency, and self-focus. It results
— Paul David Tripp
they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen" (Rom. 1:25).
— Paul David Tripp
Here it is. When the enemy somehow tricks you into squeezing the size of your life to the size of your personal dreams, wants, and needs, he has got you right where he wants you.
— Paul David Tripp
Not only does sin blind, but as sinners, we participate in our own blindness. We all swindle ourselves into thinking that we are better than we are, that what we're doing is okay when, in fact, it's not okay in the eyes of God. The spiritual reality is that we're like naked homeless people, but we see ourselves as affluent and well-dressed.
— Paul David Tripp
Hypocrites,' replied Cale, 'I've come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.
— Paul Hoffman
Spirits are generally invisible, and therefore not easily detected. They are crafty and sly in their approach.
— Perry Stone
Satan hates for any person to have the eyes of their understanding opened through the revelation of God's Word.
— Perry Stone