Quotes about Deception

His room smelled of cooked grease, Lysol, and age, but his face believed the freshness of his words, and I had no heart nor art to drag him back to the reeking reality of our life and times.

Charles Spurgeon's words: "You may conceal your infirmity, even from your dearest friend, but you will not conceal it from your worst enemy.

If we can come up with a God we can fully explain, we have come up with a different God from the Bible's. We must beware of recreating an image of God that makes us feel better. Of this I'm certain: If in our pursuit of greater knowledge God seems to have gotten smaller, we have been deceived.

Satan is a planner and a user. He seeks opportunities to use people to fulfill his plan.

Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but faithful people are His delight. Proverbs 12:22

Isaac answered Esau: "Look, I have made him a master over you… . What then can I do for you, my son?" Genesis 27:37

When you need to set boundaries . . . They are the kind [of people] who work their way into people's homes and win the confidence of vulnerable women who are burdened with the guilt of sin and controlled by various desires. 2 TIMOTHY 3:6

If we say, "We have fellowship with Him," and walk in darkness, we are lying and are not practicing the truth. 1 John 1:6

When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars. John 8:44

So either Christ can satisfy us and meet our deepest needs, or God's Word is deceptive.

I was like a docile lamb led to slaughter. I didn't know that they had devised plots against me. Jeremiah 11:19

Of this I'm certain: If in our pursuit of greater knowledge God seems to have gotten smaller, we have been deceived.