Quotes about Self-deception
The efficacy of prayer consists in a cognitive-spiritual catharsis, which purifies man of the most hideous untruth and deception, namely, the pretension that he belongs to himself and that he is his own lord.
— Joseph Soloveitchik
The mind controlled by lust has an infinite capacity for rationalization.
— Kent Hughes
Because we are more adult than actually mature, we tend to take our sins and baptize them, dressing them up as spiritual maturity.
— RC Sproul Jr.
The task of prophetic imagination is to cut through the numbness, to penetrate the self-deception, so that the God of endings is confessed as Lord. Notice that I suggest for the prophet in a really numbed situation a quite elemental and modest task.
— Walter Brueggemann
Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
— Samuel Johnson
Self-deception is an indispensable element of war, and that despite the fact that wars are calculated and planned, there is a sense in which human beings do not know what they are doing when they cut one another down on the battlefield.
— David Livingstone Smith