Quotes about Lies

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Some form of alternative consciousness is the only freedom from these addictions and from cultural lies. If the universal addiction is to our own

Cultural lies conform us, but eternal truths transform us.

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

The devil will tell a thousand truths to sell one lie.'

Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!

You can't have the true peace of Christ's kingdom with lies and pretense.

My family is undoubtedly different from yours. But one thing I've learned after more than twenty years of working closely with families is this: your family, like mine, is also marked by the consequences of the disobedience of our first parents as described in Genesis 3. Shame, secrets, lies, betrayals, relationship breakdowns, disappointments, and unresolved longings for unconditional love lie beneath the veneer of even the most respectable families. Coming

lies are what the world lives on, and those who can face the challenge of a truth and build their lives to accord are finally not many, but the very few.

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

As Paul Little has pointed out, "If God were to stamp out evil today, he would do a complete job. His action would have to include our lies and personal impurities, our lack of love, and our failure to do good. Suppose God were to decree that at midnight tonight all evil would be removed from the universe—who of us would still be here after midnight?" 23