Quotes About Deception

Satan's activity mimics his nature: he deceives by hiding the hideous nature of sin under a facade of attractiveness. He

The devil's purpose in the past was to keep Christ away from the world. Having failed that goal, the only option left to him is to keep the world away from Christ. He does so by sprinkling lies with truths and half-truths to create doubt in our minds about the faithfulness and glory of God. Paul

The Antichrist will acknowledge no religion at all other than the worship of himself and Satan. In his attempt to wipe the thought of God from the world's collective mind, he will try to change the moral and natural laws of the universe (Daniel 7:25).

Paul exposed this strategy in his letter to the Corinthians, saying that Satan has blinded people's minds, "lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them" (2 Corinthians 4:4).

The point is that we know them by their message and their fruit, not by their gifts (Deuteronomy 13:1-5; Matthew 7:15-23)."[56]

God's is real power clothed in apparent powerlessness; Evil's is apparent power which is really powerlessness.

emotional manipulators rely on their victims having a better functioning conscience than the manipulators themselves!

The trouble with alcohol is that it makes you feel young and look old.

3. You think that looks like a heart? If you do, that's only because you've never seen scrotum.

I'm not a very happy person, I told him.But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.

You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.

It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.

Game over, you say, and I don't know which I take more exception to-- the fact that you say its over, or the fact that you say it's a game.

Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.

It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say.

I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean. Games and contests, roles and rituals, talking in twelve languages at once so the true words won't be so obvious. I am not used to a plainspoken, honest truth.

I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact.

Fuck you. This isn't about slipping yourself an extra twenty dollars of Monopoly money. These are our lives. You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned.

The heart is a treacherous beast, but it means well.

Forget about the ones who set you up to see you fall.

I have lied so often that I've lost track of the truth.

You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned.

It's okay, I say-perhaps the biggest lie of all. But it's one of those things you do. You say something like It's okay not because it is, in fact, okay, but because you're hoping these words will somehow make it okay. Even though they never, ever do.