Quotes About Deception

I learned in high school, if I hold up an effigy, a mask, or a lie, that mask will get all the love, not me.

Tobin had spent the first twelve years of his life living a lie, and the last two trying to ignore the truth.

A crafty nightrunner died of late, And found himself at Bilairy's Gate. He stood outside and refused to knock Because he meant to pick the lock.

Imagine—Lord Seregil and Lord Alec slapped up in the Red Tower for common housebreaking? No one knows what we really are, or what we've done for Skala. It would just be shame and dishonor, and for what? Because some titled slip of a girl couldn't keep her skirts down on Mourning Night, then decided she wanted a proper marriage? For that, I risk losing you?

What was her disguise? For once, she [Verity] did not know. She was the female Mr. Twaddle-Thum dressed as a clerk pretending to be a reporter. If any of the staff recognized her as Robert Lark, none of them indicated it by look or deed.

Romance of Reynard the Fox

According to Procopius, Justinian and Theodora made it a regular policy to pretend to disagree in matters of state and to side with different parties, while really they always worked hand in glove with each other, betrayed their associates freely to each other, and thus learned the secrets of their enemies.

Things aren't always as they seem. But then, sometimes they're exactly as they seem.

Yet I have come to distrust book jackets calculated to prick desire like a Bloomingdale's window, as if you could wear what you read.

Myths and superstitions have power over us only to the extent that we believe them, but when we believe, we live completely under their spell

In the quiet, unexpressed, unwrestled-through disappointments, Satan is handcrafting his most damning weapons against us and those we love. It's his subtle seduction to get us alone with our thoughts so he can slip in whispers that will develop our disappointments into destructive choices.

Giving with strings of secret expectations attached is the greatest invitation to heartbreak. That's not love. That's manipulation.

I don't know what to say or how to say it." So I said nothing. Not a word. I stuffed it all down and started to build a barrier to hide behind. After the incident, I smiled when I saw her, but I held her at a distance. She knew something was wrong, but when she questioned me about it, I lied. "Everything's fine," I said. But everything wasn't fine. Not at all.

Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour" (1 Peter 5:8).

The Devil is powerful, but he's also predictable. We are told in 1 John 2:16 the exact three ways he's going to come after us. "For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father, but from the world.

And we don't allow their choices to harm us and start drawing our heart into places of compromise, devastation, or deception. Again, we all need grace when we mess up. But we also need the awareness that there is a difference between an occasional slip in behavior and an ongoing pattern of behavior.

Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour" (1 Peter 5:8). He's not just looking to distract you, or tempt you, or pull you slightly off course. He's looking to devour you.

Secret worship is all about something in this world that seems so attractive on the outside but will devour you on the inside. Pornography

satisfied by daily doses of truth, otherwise we will be prone to snack on deception.

Satan wants us to sneak things in secret.

Secret worship is all about something in this world that seems so attractive on the outside but will devour you on the inside.

lion looking for someone to devour.

If Satan can use our everyday experiences, both big and small, to cripple our true identity, then he renders God's people totally ineffective for the kingdom of Christ.

Lies flee in the presence of truth.